Tomatoes tasty and fanciful are still weeks away from the table, but those eager to grow ones as good as those at the Great Tomato Taste-Off at Quail Hill Farm should consider chicken manure for their plantings now.
Durell Godfrey Photos
Garden
Deer-resistant plants are the emphasis of the Garden Club of East Hampton’s sale, including Full Moon coreopsis, or tickseed, left, and Purple Haze agastache. The author’s own garden, top, has a variety of native plants.
Abby Jane Brody Photos
Show-stopping trees can be the stars of your garden, from a pink-flowering Japanese apricot to the flamboyant crape myrtle.
Clockwise, from upper left, Stewartia, a member of the camelia amd franklinia family. Crape myrtle, flamboyant from late July through September. Prunus mume, a relative of the flowering cherry.
Abbey Jane Brody Photos
With smooth bark (perfect for carving hearts) native beeches grace hidden and peaceful woodlands. Chris Chapin hails their primeval beauty.
Above: The South Fork’s natural landscapes are surprising as this view of a pond ringed by beeches attests. Inset: A mature beech forest is open and park-like.
Durell Godfrey Photos
There are Buddhas and bronze monkeys in this enchanting garden, but the specimen trees — evergreens and magnolias and yellowwood — came first.
Southeast Asian sculptures take their ease beneath a canopy.
An inspirational art-photo show at LongHouse urges us to honor the ‘living reminders of our heritage.’
East Hampton’s Main Street, looking south from Huntting Lane before the 1938 Hurricane.
Ever wonder how our emblematic trees survived disease and hurricanes? Remember the eco-warriors of the L.V.I.S.
The ladies of the East Hampton Village Improvement Society have tended our street trees with love, and money, since about 1907.
Carissa Katz learns the ropes of recreational tree scaling — and finds peace (and a priceless view).
Even a novice can get up in a Hither Woods oak.
Jeremy Samuelson
Black Frost: White Lawn
David E. Rattray
