\nTHE DAYS ARE NOT LONG ENOUGH FOR US RIGHT NOW, WITH GARDEN CLEAN UP, TWO GARDEN PARTIES AND TOURS, HOUSE GUESTS COMING ALL IN THE NEXT 3 WEEKS. JUST TRYING TO FOCUS ON ONE SMALL PART OF THE GARDEN IS ALL WE CAN DO.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/div>\n
As a designer myself, I really need to find a company that will allow me to design my own line of containers ( I have so many new ideas), but for now, I need to settle on what is available at retail, but these are very attractive, and look nothing like roto-molded forms available even five years ago. If I only could afford more, for the white ones were nice too. Now, I am trying to thing about what I could plant in them. At first, I tried some of the cold weather biennials like Diascia, but they didn’t look quite right. A boxwood globe is what I will most likely end up with, since these containers function visually as an architectural statement too. Until then, I am going to try two topiary’s that I found in the greenhouse, a white flowered rosemary, and a matching Westringia rosemarifolia. I will pot them up next weekend, since these two plants need some hardening off – it is only mid April. <\/div>\n
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NEW JAPANESE BAMBOO FENCING ADDS A NEW FOCUS, IN THE GREENHOUSE BORDER.<\/div>\n
I feel badly about this fence, too, since these were the last two left at Mahoney’s, and even though the guys in the greenhouse were very kind and helpful, offering to order more for us, and checking for additional stock, at the register, one fell apart, because the wood was spit and quite damaged. They would not offer us a discount ( they were not expensive, at $19.00 ea.), but clearly, these last two were remaining because of the damage on the posts with the split wood and I would have been surprised if anyone else would have bought them with the rungs falling out. Of course, we did, and we repaired them the best that we could with bamboo rope and wax. Oh, Mahoney’s, what are we going to do with you? Or, at least your sales help!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ONE OF A PAIR OF STUNNING TALL PLANTERS MANUFACTURED BY MAYNE, WHICH WE PURCHASED IN THE BOSTON AREA AT MAHONEY’S NURSERY IN WINCHESTER, MA….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-8993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-design"],"yoast_head":"\n
Shopping at Mahoney's Garden Center - the good and the bad - Growing With Plants<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n