This morning I walked through the garden to see what flowers I could bring to our friends, BJ and Dan. As I began I was a little alarmed but I walked. And I did find a few lovely things. I do like the tall viburnum with its lacy flower, and as I strolled I also found golden Geum, Bleeding Heart. primrose, and Icelandic poppy. There will be more. (more…)
Yesterday (Saturday) I arrived at the Second Congregational Church and saw all kinds of people, little children and much older people who were fascinated about honeybees, and the sweet honey treats at the annual Bee Fest. (more…)
Happy Garden Bloggers Bloom Day! The richness of the peony touches my heart. And more peonies will come along. It was a surprise to me, but I have learned that there are other types of peony.
Every morning I take a stroll through the garden. I am always ready to find new flowers. This is an Icelandic Poppy and some people do have these flowers with other colors. (more…)
There has been so much sun recently that I must show off the early flowers of gold. This is the Wood Poppy that sits on our Hugle where it shows off its gold. I will talk about the use of a Hugle very soon. (more…)
The sad days have arrived. All the daffodils in our Rose Garden are weeping. (more…)
We have other Clematis, but this one plant, planted today, is a beautiful white. It stands right in front of the fence with Hellebores on the other side. (more…)
I hope many people heard about Wisty Rorabacher and her restoration work at the Green River swimming area in Greenfield. Here she was showing me how to kill bad invasive plants and help beautiful local plants. The invasive Japanese Knotweed can get very large, and Wisty helped show me, and my husband, how to get rid of those. It takes a lot of time. (more…)
I went to hear Wisty give us an amazing talk that let us know “There is a hidden treasure right here in Greenfield!” How could this be? I never knew that there were treasures around the Green River Swimming Area. (more…)
Surprise was not what I expected
I looked out the window this morning and got a big surprise! As I write it is still raining. Yesterday I was moving soil around to fill in spots that had shrunk. As you may know, after we had been in our new house (9 years ago) we learned that children loved coming into the backyard with their ice skates. And that is how we learned that we have a very wet garden. But we do carry on! (more…)