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As spring roars in behind its exuberant parade of dogwood, redbud, magnolia and cherry trees I sit ready to praise a trio of shrubs that bring me almost as much joy without all the press: the vivid quince, the golden kerria and the oh-so-lovely pink almond, the latter often derided in highbrow horticultural circles. The knock on all of them …
Yes, the Angel Trumpets got it right again. After 19 years of incredible fun, joy and satisfaction, and the best customers in horticultural history, Hidden Hill is closing its nursery operation this fall. It is a decision made by brilliant mind, aging body and impatient financial adviser – the latter a guy who has always made too much sense. In …
In the end it came down to a pair of ornamental tin chickens, both of them, no doubt, created in a distant and dangerous land soon to be confronting more tariffs – or less. So it goes in the modern yard-art department where, at some point, everything seems fair game or fowl. My taste in such in our Hidden Hill …
Nothing says spring like a white crab apple blossom caressed by morning rain. It’s living art that can be captured forever in a photograph, and two of the Louisville area’s finest photographers, John Nation and Danny Dempster, will teach you how at a two-day Hidden Hill Nature Photography Workshop! The opening session will be at 6 p.m. Friday, May 11 …
Through a much practiced combination of plant lust and poor planning, Hidden Hill has a surplus of cornelian cherry trees for sale – not to forget those blooming right now along our driveway. Perpetual early Spring charmers! We will have them at half-price when we open March 30. They will finished blooming by then with hundreds of bright red fall …
Originally posted on Insider Louisville on February 27, 2018. Written by Sara Havens. During his 33-year tenure at the Louisville Times and The Courier Journal, Bob Hill wrote more than 4,000 columns all about life, liberties and pursuing happiness. The award-winning prose often mixed satire and humor, and Hill wasn’t one to shy away from controversy, either. While writing kept …
Have we mentioned that Hidden Hill Nursery & Sculpture Garden opens in about two months, with hundreds of rare and unusual plants, such as this early blooming witchhazel “Wisley Supreme” for sale?
By now many of you have been wondering how to properly landscape a freshly-painted baby grand piano. You wonder because you are well aware that this Saturday, Aug. 13 – beginning at 9 a.m. – three carefully-painted and immaculately-landscaped baby grands will be on display at Maxwell’s House of Music at 1710 E. 10th Street in Jeffersonville. It is a …
This, to my memory, is the first mini-treatise I have ever written on pickles. It comes to you somewhat courtesy of Janet Hill, who has filled our house with the unmistakable, lingering odor of pickle brine during her almost annual process of converting innocent cucumbers into thinly sliced hamburger helpers. She does it with a nearly 50-year-old, hand-written recipe she …
Many of you have been lying awake at night wondering when Yoga classes would return to Hidden Hill. Well, how about this Saturday at 11:30 a.m., when Tami Combs returns to liven up the wooded area by our magnificent double-pond waterfall with the sight and sounds of people stretching body parts that haven’t been stretched in a while. AAAArrrggggg comes …
The Louisville band Blues & Greys will be featured at the annual Hidden Hill Nursery & Sculpture Garden “Blues Fest” near Utica, Indiana on Saturday, July 23rd from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Turtle Run Winery will serve the wine, and barbeque meals will be available from B3Q Barbeque. Admission is $10 per person. Free parking. Hidden Hill owner Bob …
Our Franklinia tree opened its first, fragrant camellia-like flower this weekend, an event as eagerly anticipated at Hidden Hill as the first spring blooms of a witch hazel, if not a cold beer on the back porch after a long hot day weeding the iris bed and cactus patch. The first thing to know about the Franklinia is there are …