Two Flowers – One With Surprise
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…)
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…)
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…)