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…)
Spring likes to work to bring flowers onto the bridge, but this year that will not happen. As many know, the Bridge is in very bad condition and in desperate need of repair. Happily, there are other pleasantries that the Bridge will give us.
I came across this book some time ago, but somehow I did not dig into it until now. We Made a Garden was first published in England in 1956. Margery and Walter Fish both loved working in their new garden. They gave us quite a useful tale of how to put their garden together. (more…)
It does not seem fair that we have been working in the flower garden with delight, but we woke up this morning with snow on the ground. Then rain, cold rain, began melting snow – slightly. (more…)
Hellebores are amazing flowers, coming in different sizes and colors and shapes. They begin to bloom very early, and don’t mind the cold at all. Light and dappled light is important. I used to worry about that but now I don’t clear away all the dead tree leaves until the flowers are actually beginning to bloom. (more…)
Ten years ago when we bought this house I loved this Norway Spruce with its arms out with joy for the garden we were planting. But alas, the tree began to bend. (more…)
