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The Hops Are High

The regions’ hop vines are nice and high right now. Soon, they’ll be harvested and dried for use. I’ve lived in a handful of cities in which the smell of drying hops and brewing beer is integral to the days,… Continue Reading

Twining through Spring into Summer: Clematis in the North State Garden

My clematis are blooming nicely, elegantly draping themselves over trellises, fences and my shrub roses. I attended a meeting this past week for which my friend Jeanne had created two amazing arrangements for the table from her collection of now… Continue Reading

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Clematis in the North State, with Home-Gardener Jeanne Zimmerman

For almost all of her almost eight decades, Jeanne Zimmerman has been gardening and for a good part of that time she has been growing – and loving – the elegance and hard-to-beat beauty of clematis flowers and vines. “The… Continue Reading