I enjoy garden projects – as opposed to chores. To me a project is something that will improve or add lasting value to your garden. Raking leaves, for example, is a chore. Naturalizing bulbs, on the other hand, is a project because a sweep of naturalized bulbs will add years of low maintenance beauty to [...]
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Not Your Regular List of Fall Garden Projects
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Hate Raking Leaves? A Mulch Mowing How-to
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“… a mature, healthy tree can have 200,000 leaves. During 60 years of life, such a tree would grow and shed 3,600 pounds of leaves, returning about 70% of their nutrients to the soil.”
Wisconsin County Forests webpage
Think about how many millions of leaves will be gathered here at Winterthur and in the many gardens throughout [...]
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About Winterthur
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate is located among the rolling hills of Delaware’s Brandywine Valley. At the core of the estate’s 1,000 acres is a century’s old garden where vibrant displays of bulbs, perennials, and flowering trees and shrubs unfold beneath a majestic canopy of trees. For more information about Winterthur visit our Web site at winterthur.org.
Photo by Allen Rokach
