The Greenfield Garden Club Garden Tour has come and gone. This was a wonderful event – even though we all had to be aware of Covid 19. We all wore our masks, including the very youngest set who had some fun on the curves of our strolling garden. Social distancing was quite well followed. There was a holiday feel about the day and I am grateful that the Greenfield Garden Club gave us this day of pleasure. The…
Over the weekend I visited some fabulous gardens, and you will be hearing more about them soon. What surprised me about many of these gardens was the amount of vegetable gardening going on in our town. I saw small vegetable gardens, big vegetable gardens, pretty vegetable gardens, and vegetable gardens in hoop houses. Wow! I also have a very small vegetable garden this year, only 10 x 8 feet. This garden was prompted by the pandemic which has…
The Greenfield Garden Club is holding its Garden Tour today July 12 – and my garden is one of the ten that will be showing off all kinds of flowers, shrubbery, and trees. I am very excited, and I have been thinking about whether a garden is a natural thing. Or is it a construction? Our small garden is celebrating its fifth birthday. This was a very new experience for us. In Heath we had acres and acres.…
I don't know how we got to July already this year, but here we are at Garden Blogger's Bloom Day on July 15, 2020. These two delphiniums are the last standing plants, helped a little bit by the wiggly stakes. If you are going to grow delphiniums you need stakes and pray for gentle rains, not torrents. That is a wonderful Lonicera, honeysuckle, behind the delphiniums. Here we are with three kinds of flower living happily with each…
The Greenfield Garden Club Garden Tour has been postponed to Sunday, July 12, 2020 due to the weather. Tickets and maps for the tour, $10, are available Sunday morning from 8:30am to 1 pm at the John Zon Community Center on Pleasant Street. Ten beautiful gardens will be on display. Hope to see you there with your masks. Social distancing required. The importance of pollinators in our own gardens, and in public gardens like those at the Energy…
The Garden Tour has been postponed to Sunday, July 12. It is almost time for the Greenfield Garden Club Garden Tour. My garden is one of ten that will be on display. My garden has roses, just beginning to enjoy their second blooming. I wish I could tell the Fairy rose buds from those that need to be deadheaded. I love daylilies because they have such a long bloom season. I have daylilies with lots of different colors…
WRITING WILD by Kathryn Aalto Writing Wild is the thrilling and inviting title of Kathryn Aalto’s book about 25 Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World (Timber Press $24.95). She begins with Dorothy Wordsworth, sister of poet William Wordsworth, who succinctly described herself as a “mountaineer, diarist, poet.” This first section sets up the design of the book. First there is a bit of unexpected (in many cases) biography focusing in some…
Just in this past week my daylilies have begun to bloom. Years and years ago I never paid attention to daylilies, which I never seemed to even notice beyond roadside orange daylilies. But daylilies have an amazing history and have gotten more various and beautiful over the last hundred years. Daylilies originated in Asia over 400 years ago; the orange daylilies we all recognize. Then they started travelling through Europe beginning in the 1800s. They even made their…