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62 Pretty Little Things Jann Blazonas California home is defined by what she loves most: objects shes spent decades gathering, and beautiful, bountiful blooms. By Cathi Hanauer

72 Take It Outside Mario Pollans 2,600-square- foot house in Westerlo, New York, is nothing compared to the eight lavish garden rooms hes created around the property. By Cynthia Kling

82 The Contemplative Gardener In rural New Hampshire, Reggie Tarr has single-handedly built Tarrnation Farm, where he sells flowers, herbs, and vegetables out of the barn. Its tough, solitary work he wouldnt have it any other way. By Warren Schultz

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31 What Is It? What Is It Worth? Awesome appraisals, from an 1800s writing desk to $300 vintage gloves!

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42 Plants That Pay Off These easy-care varieties are the hard-working wonders landscape designers rely on, year after year.

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58 Real Estate Sampler Historic homes featuring glorious gardens

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93 Home Cooking Recipes for a sumptuous Easter dinner

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and ink, while the top lifts up to hold paper. The geometric and

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and its surprisingly decent condition makes it a real prize.

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Did my grandfather strike gold with his old mining stock? E.S., Avondale, Arizona

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collectors look for intricate artwork and famous, bygone corporations.

But since this example boasts neither, its a bit of a loss.

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I bought these gloves at a thrift store for $50. Do you think I paid too much? K.R., San Francisco

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Hatch ombr Easter eggs with food coloring.You can create this dramatic dis-play with just two 0.25-ounce vials of blue dye you may already have in the kitchen. Set out six 12-ounce glasses, labeled A through F. Add one cup of boiling water and two teaspoons of white vinegar to each and stir, using a separate spoon for each glass. Then, mix in the color as follows: A, two drops; B, six drops; C, 10 drops; D, 20 drops; E, 45 drops; F, 60 drops. Submerge a hard-boiled egg in each glass. Steep for five min-utes, or until youre happy with the hue, then remove and place in an empty egg carton to dry. Repeat with additional eggs (up to three dozen).

Four simple, high-impact projectsincluding an artful use for bleach

Get Crafy!

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These DIY trays recall the wares of artist John Derianonly ours cost just a few bucks a pop.

Step One Download the image of your choice (originally from thegraphicsfairy.com) from countryliving.com/decoupageart. Each image is presized to fit the glass trays shown here (narrow, $8.46; 6"W x 12"L; wide, $9.25; 8"W x 11"L; behrenbergglass.com). Use a laser printer to print out the image, at home or at a copy shop.

Step twO Flip your tray upside down. Spray with glass cleaner and wipe down to remove any fingerprints or residue. With a sponge brush, spread a layer of Mod Podge over the trays back side ($5.99 for 8 oz.; plaidonline .com). Place your image, right side down, atop the Mod Podge, then quickly flip the tray right side up and gently center the image. Smooth the paper against the glass, then place the tray wrong side down again. With a clean wine cork, roll out any air bubbles until the paper fully molds to the glass. Let dry 30 minutes.

Step three Use Mod Podge to adhere a plain white piece of paper atop and flush against the back of the image. Let dry 30 minutes.

Step FOUr Cut away any excess paper around the tray edges with a craft knife. Then, seal the white piece of paper with another layer of Mod Podge. Let dry 30 minutes.

Step Five Following the instructions of Speedballs three-part gold-leaf kit, apply adhesive, gold leaf, and sealer to the trays back side; then trace around the edges of the tray with a gold-paint marker (Composition Gold Leaf Kit, $10.97; Krylon leafing pen, $6.55; dickblick.com). Let dry.

Step SiX Use your tray to gather trinkets, or mount it, as we did here, with a plate hanger.

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Recycle printing blocks as toothbrush holders.Rebecca Proctor offers a novel take on this sink-side necessity in her book Recycled Home ($19.95; Laurence King). To fashion your own, mark a spot on the top of a wooden printing block, available on Etsy for about $6 to $10 apiece. With a drill bit slightly larger than the thickness of your toothbrush, drill vertically into the mark, 1 to 2 inches deep. (If needed, drill additional holes on either side of your mark to widen it.) Once your toothbrush fits inside, use a smaller drill bit to make a hole in the bottom of the block, directly beneath your first hole. Drill enough so that the two holes meet, allowing water to drain through the block. Finally, protect the wood (inside the holes, too!) with a coat of spray-on resin (Castin Craft resin spray, $6.95; tapplastics.com).

Bust out the bleach to design this celestial splattered fabric.Making over plain cotton upholstery fabric requires nothing more than a house-hold disinfectant and water. Working outside, and wearing protective eyewear and gloves, lay the desired yard-age for your project flat on a sheet of plastic. In a mea-suring cup, mix together cup bleach and cup water. Use a plastic spoon to drib- ble the liquid all over the fabric. When youre satisfied with the pattern, let dry, then run the fabric through a regular cycle in your washer and dryer. Take it to a local upholsterer (we sent ours to tapemeasure design.com)or use it how-ever youd like.

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I hoard quirky, old

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anymore! Revamping the

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fixeslike paint and lami-

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Set up a command center. Holden arranged a row of three tables from Cost Plus World Market, surrounded by a dozen steel stacking chairs from overstock.com, smack-dab in the middle of the room. A carpenter apron tied to each seat holds tools and journals for workshop attendees, and lamps act as task lights. Large burlap apronsfor protecting clothes when things get messyhang at the ready.

Heres an idea that sticks: Liberate tape from its drawer. To create this vivid tableau, Holden dropped wooden berry boxes into the slots of a $30 flea- market fabric-dye display, then sorted her collection by color. I use my washi tape all the time, she says, and now its easy to access and looks almost like artwork.


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Vintage tins can corral just about anything. In this case, its markers, paintbrushes, and art pencils. I buy these canisters for their typography, says Holden, a graphic designer by trade. At yard sales, theyre just as cheap as plastic bins, and so much better looking.

Give supplies the candy-store treatment. An antique nine-foot-high apothecary cabinet offers ample shelving. But to curb chaos, Holden groups items togetherstraws, stencils, etc.in an assortment of new and vintage glass jars (the largest ones are Anchor Hocking pieces from Walmart).

The genius way to keep string straight? Let diner-style sugar dispensers do the work for you. Place the containers on a shelf inside something sturdy (Holden used a tool trug), and screw an eye hook into the shelf below each one. Drop in a spool, then thread the string through the spout and the eye hook. Finally, mount scissors nearby to make snipping a snap.

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Meet the worlds most inspiring ribbon display. To sidestep kinks and tangles, Holden screwed cup hooks along a yardstick (the tick marks ensure equal spacing). Then she hung wooden curtain rings on the hooks before adding the ribbon. The Roy G. Biv cache helps me keep track of my stock, she says.

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For nearly a century, bluegrass musiciansand their fans have flocked to North Carolinas Old

Time Fiddlers & Bluegrass Festival,

a three-day to-do that takes place

at a campground in the foothills

of the Brushy Mountains in Union

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The hoedown started in 1924,

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school. The event was such a success

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next 46 years. His son Harper took

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Groves reputation as the countrys

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courted marquee names, several have

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and Doc Watson.

Loyal attendees were stunned

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regretfully decided to pull the plug

because the family patriarch, Harper

Van Hoy, 91, had Alzheimers disease.

Lissy Rosemont (far right) took the stage with the band Blackgrass when she was eight months pregnant.

BeLow Jessica Duncan poses with her grandfather Harper Van Hoy, who hosted the festival from 1970 to 2013.

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But thanks to an outpouring of

community support, the bands played

on. Musicians offered to perform for

free, while local residents volunteered

to help with concessions and parking.

The generosity was overwhelming,

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31-year-old great-granddaughter. She,

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and fourth-generation Van Hoy cous-

ins, realized that they had to rally.

The festival has run for 90 years,

through wars and the Depression.

We certainly didnt want to break that

chain, Duncan says.

Last May, the event attracted 1,500

people and more than 100 entertain-

ers. Theres a spiritual connection

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Duncan. We think of everyone here

as our extended family.

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November, and the loss has galva-

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further. He smiled all the way

through last years festival, Duncan

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will continue to enjoy every note.

FROM LEFT Vendor Carol Collins sells lemonade and sno-cones out of The Sweet Tooth & More truck; a mellow moment at Fiddlers Grove; musician Wayne Henderson shows off his customized guitar.

We encourage musicians of all

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Ask a Country VetWhen is it safe to bathe dogs outdoors?

What happens if a cat burns her whiskers? And does my pet duck need a place to swim?

Dr. rob Sharp of Hillsboro, Ohio, has answers.

Q Now that the weathers warming up, Id like to start giving my three dogs baths outside with the garden hose. What does the air temperature need to be? anything else I should keep in mind? L.K., Greenfield, Massachusetts

A Remember when your mom told you, Eat right, get enough sleep, and dont go out without your

hat? While pulling an all-nighter,

scarfing junk food, or going outside

uncovered may not make you sick,

it will cause stress, which impairs your

bodys ability to fight illness. Its the

same for all animals: A calf taken from

his mom and sent off to another

farm may come down with a serious

respiratory infection called shipping

feverbrought on by stress. Sheep

chased by coyotes may dieeven if

they werent attackedjust from the

stress of the encounter.

So if you take your gang outside to

hose em down, youll need to minimize

any potential sources of stress, includ-

ing temperature. Id say 65 degrees in

the spring is a pretty safe standard, but

a better measure is to make sure its

warm enough that youd be comfortable

taking a shower out there with them.

Put on your swimsuit and have a wet

time together. If youre at ease, they will

be, too. (Also be mindful of how hotor

cold!the water supplied to your hose

is.) Dry your dogs off as soon as youre

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Q My cat got a little too curious and singed her whiskers on the stove! Could the fact that theyre shorter endanger her healthand will they grow back?

S.R., Valley City, North Dakota

A Relaxyour cats curiosity will only result in a temporary inconvenience for her. Because the

primary function of whiskers is to act

as feelers, giving your feline a sense

of space and shape, she now has an

altered appreciation of her surround-

ings. Her shortened whiskers will

make her think that an area is larger

than it really is, but unless shes a

chronic narrow-space squeezer, this

isnt a big deal (and even if she is,

shell learn to adjust).

Whiskers are a specialized form

of skin derivative, like nails and

eyelashes, with a natural cycle of

regrowth. However, since whiskers

play a key role in helping your kitty

judge her environment, it goes without

saying that they should never be

trimmed, no matter if theyre curly,

short, or burned. Even though your

pets are singed, theyll eventually be

replaced by new ones, a process that

usually takes two to three months. In

the meantime, dont worry: They, and

she, will be just fine.

Q Do I need to live near a pond or lake to be able to care for a pet duck properly? K.D., Aiken, South Carolina

A Not at all. Theres no need for you to own a pond for your duckjust as theres no need for dog owners to have farms for their pets to run. Wild ducks capture what they eat in ponds and use that water to help swallow their

food, wash off their bills, and generally keep from choking. And, of course, they

drink it. If you provide food and a sizable water dish, monitored daily, or even a

bucket of fresh water your duck can use to rinse off his bill, a pond isnt necessary.

These animals do love to swim, and a plastic wading pool can be a fun addition

to your ducks environment (like all birds, they have claws, so opt for a hard

and sturdy model versus an inflatable one). Make sure the water is kept clean,

and your pet will feel right at home. Remember, though, that most ducks mate

in the water, and if you want fertilized eggs, youll need to supply more than a

kiddie poolin that case, its best to consult an experienced breeder for advice.

But assuming your local laws permit ducks as pets, they can live quite happily

with little more than a backyard.

Veterinarian Rob ShaRp, author of No DogS iN heaveN? (Running Press), would love to

answer your pet questions. Drop him a line at [email protected].

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Pretty Little ThingsJann Blazonas California home is defined by what she loves most: objects shes spent decades gathering, and beautiful, bountiful blooms.

written by cathi hanauer | photographs by aLec heMer | styling by heather BuLLarD


THIS PAGE Vases of dahlias (six different varieties!) sit in a vintage crate.

OPPOSITE PAGE Jann Blazona shows off her milk glass in a general-store display case.


When she was 6 years old, Jann Blazona approached her mother with a packet of zinnia seeds

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ripped up some ivy and threw in the seeds, she

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so anxious to grow tomatoes that I put in 55 plants!

Blazona says. By this spring, (continued on page 69)

left Blazona raises vegetables and herbs in gopher-proof galvanized troughs.

top left Slipcovered chairs and a National Upholstery sofa surround the lee Industries ottoman.

aBove White flowersincluding salvia, violas, petu-nias, begonias, and lantanaadorn the side porch.

65

Blazonas kitchen built-ins hold all her ironstone and glassware. The Windsor chair is by Ethan Allen; the wicker seats are Janus et Cie.

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THIS PAGE Fresh- cut dahlias sit in a milk-glass com-pote and a bud vase from a Sonoma boutique.

OPPOSITE PAGE

Portulaca, varie-gated sage, cherry tomatoes, Padron peppers, parsley, and more thrive in the galvanized troughs. The metal armchair was a $35 flea-market score.


My first season here, I was so

anxious to grow tomatoes that I put

in 55 plants! Jann Blazona says.


Vintage bird prints lean against the wall and dot the entryways shelving unit. Blazona found the chippy painted birdcage in a local antiques shop.

I wanted to marry California farmhouse style with East Coast

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bright idea!This wide chair rail was designed to accommodate artworkno nails necessary!

(continued from page 64) shed weeded that number

down to eight. Happily, she shares the bounty

with neighbors, and vice versa. Someones always

coming by to drop off somethinghomemade

preserves, eggs, Blazona says.

That warm, community-oriented lifestyle was

top of mind when she designed her home: The

20-by-30-foot dream kitchen has a farmhouse

table that seats 12. Her other priority? Showing

off her collectionsfinds shes amassed for years.

Come April, this means birds nests, milk glass,

hotelware trays, and more. Between seasons,

Blazona stores the treasures in plastic bins stacked

floor-to-ceiling in the barn. And the hunt continues.

Im constantly adding new things from flea

markets, even Anthropologie, Blazona says. They

have such fun tea towels.

Her mix-and-match aesthetic shines through in

every room. We wanted to marry California

right A bottle-drying rack keeps Anthropologie glasses within easy reach on the kitchen island.

Above Salvaged curving stair treads provide the perfect perch for birds nests.

top right blazona had an artist paint a checker-board pattern onto the workshops pine floor.


farmhouse style with East Coast architecture,

she says. (Capones originally from Pennsylvania.)

So while the kitchen cabinetry is new, much of

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any bedis antique. Traditional millwork, such

as crown moldings and beadboard, joins modern,

clean lines and a zillion windows clad in mini

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