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Vivian Reiss Landscape Design Site is Launched!

ByVivian January 27, 2011

This is my new website, check out all my projects! http://www.vreissdesign.com/landscapes/`

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Banana Bird
ByVivian January 23, 2011

I am on the furthest eastward point of St. John US VI in a beautiful rented villa open to the sea and air on all sides. The only discordant part of the gorgeous setting and decor are the fake indoor plants that seem to be de rigueur in vacation homes. The silliest is the fake banana tree…

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In a circular line, it all comes back
ByVivian November 16, 2010

It was announced that for the first time in years the Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks were to displayed in the Hudson River. The last time I had seen them over the Hudson, was in the year of my sixth grade graduation. I had to go. We arrived in New York to one of those glorious Summer dog days of…

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Buzz in in the garden
ByVivian July 29, 2010

This morning Dan Goodbaum www.foodbomb.org came to my garden to interview me for a video he is making about my garden and my gardening philosophy . The bees were at work.

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Cotton is High!
ByVivian November 16, 2010

The world price of cotton in October of 2009 was 66 cents per pound. By October of this year, the price of cotton had risen to $1.26 per pound.The price of cotton had risen dramatically in the past year and that was the price of your average cotton. Who knows what price, organically grown, extremely rare Canadian cotton…

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Getting to The Root of the Matter, How Deep Are Your Roots?
ByVivian April 15, 2011November 28, 2021

If you think; ” a new broom sweeps clean,” is a refreshing adage, you have no idea of how the concept of getting to the root of my garden’s suffocation and plague is rejuvenating. After all, a new broom is only sweeping away some mildly irritating dust mites and dust bunnies revealing a clean floor but digging out pernicious roots…

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Bull’s Blood Beets
ByVivian November 20, 2010November 23, 2021

I planted several varieties of beets in my garden including, “Golden, Early Wonder, Flat of Egypt and Chioggio.” They range from the lovely pale anemic beet, “Albino”, to the “Bull’s Blood” beet that bleeds a healthy iron red from the moment I cut the stems in the garden. Thinly sliced “Bull’s Blood” beet in my garden The first preparation I tried,…

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