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Artists’ Gardens – George Van Hook

Inspiration Shut at Hand

Artists’ Gardens

George Van Hook

Iris, 30 x 24", Oil, © George Van Hook
Iris          30 x 24″          Oil          © George Van Hook

   In response to our “Inspiration Close at Hand” simply call for paintings established in artists’ gardens or other personal areas, we received these five pictures from artist, George Van Hook. Even though inspiration can be located far and huge, many of us have discovered “diamonds in personal backyard”, specially all through the confinement of the pandemic. There can be great artistic positive aspects to painting a additional intimate and personal globe throughout the changes of mild and time.

The Flower Farm, 12 x 16", Oil, © George Van Hook
The Flower Farm          12 x 16″          Oil          © George Van Hook

   George wrote to us, “I typically commit a fantastic part of the summer season months portray the determine in the several beautiful flower gardens that encircle our household in Upstate New York. We’ve lived below for nearly 30 five years, and from

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Bouquets aplenty: Attractive Gardens Tour returns to Plymouth Sunday, July 18 | Plymouth/Drugs Lake

The Mates the Plymouth Library are thrilled to announce the return of the well-liked Lovely Gardens Tour 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, July 18.

This is the seventh self-guided gardens tour that the Close friends have sponsored after possessing to terminate last year’s tour thanks to the pandemic.

The annual garden tour is an chance for the team to increase resources to help library programming. The party also introduces people to stunning gardens the place they can find out from other gardeners, described Cathy Fischer, president of the Buddies of the Plymouth Library.

It will aspect five gardens – 4 in Plymouth and one in neighboring New Hope.

“It’s just such a great thing to do on a Sunday afternoon,” Fischer mentioned.

1 backyard web page is described by its operator, Mary Cotton, as “Painting With Bouquets.”

Her painted backyard is separated by four massive gardens, every with a

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Terra Flora Gardens open to the public once again

MARTINSVILLE — When visiting Doug and Kay Flauding’s residence, one of the first things you will notice are the beautiful gardens surrounding the property. A close second might be the sign above the doorbell with a set of simple instructions: “Ring bell. If no answer, pull weeds.” 

The Flaudings have spent the last 17 years carefully tending to their gardens, and all their hard work comes to fruition every summer when they open their home for annual garden tours. 

“We learn about how to do things every year,” Doug said. “We make a lot of mistakes, but that’s how we learn.” 

The tours, nicknamed the “Friends and Neighbors Tour,”  will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 8, and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 10. at 8047 Goat Hollow Rd in Martinsville. Masks are not required for vaccinated individuals. The Flaudings ask that

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Southcentral Alaska gardens are obtaining a sluggish summer season – besides for the weeds

Is it just in our lawn or probably just me? Appears like issues are rising slower, the hen populations are way down — witnessed quite a few geese this 12 months? — and there are considerably also several bugs other than mild hits of mosquitoes. I really don’t know. It just looks like a slow-relocating summertime.

Be that as it may perhaps, 1 plant is not escalating slowly but surely. When I get a few email messages asking the similar query, all in 1 working day, I know I far better enable the entire world in on the solution, as it should be a widespread challenge. I know extra than a person gardener is suffering by way of an invasion of Campanula rapunculoides, aka purple bell flowers, the subject matter of these several inquires. It is having more than a lot more people’s flower beds than just ours.

Initially of

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