The days have been hot and muggy. It’s time to stay inside after 10 a.m. and turn to new books. It’s time to think about what fall chores will need to be done. The first book is useful to me now that our shrubs have matured. When we designed our Greenfield garden we wanted to make it easy to care for.We knew that meant choosing easy care plants – like shrubs. A trio of hydrangeas promising generous size…
It is Garden Blogger's Bloom Day and although it has been a very hot and dry summer Thomas Affleck is never bothered very much. He is into his second bloom season and doing very well. Some roses are sending out a few blossoms, but they dry up rapidly. The Coral Drift rose is making a midsummer comeback but Paprika is not. Fire Light is one of my three hydrangeas which include Lime Light and Angel Blush. Fire Light…
H is for Hellebores. This spring the time came for me to add hellebores to my garden. I had the perfect new space - a new wooden fence that made two new planting beds. One side provided sunny space for new roses, and a shady side for epimediums and hellebores. A friend invited me to see her hellebores, of which this is one. It is inspiring to think about adding hellebores to the new planting bed. Hellebores welcome…
Amy Moscaritolo It impossible to show you all the garden tour gardens at once, so we continue today with three very different gardens. My husband and I visited Amy and David Moscaritolo’s garden after the official tour day. We turned off the road and onto an iron bridge to cross over a small river that used to be used for ice production. Amy greeted us and we chatted in the shade admiring the graceful expanse of lawn with…
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…