Tulip Tuesday time!Juana takes me on a tour of the garden showing me just a few of the tulips she has planted over the years. Quite impressive I think!
Tulip Tuesday
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Flower Friday
It’s flower Friday again and plants are actively making up for lost time by bursting into bloom daily. Sweet woodruff (Galium odoratum): The flowers on the sweet woodruff signify that time to harvest for May wine is past and they are ready to spread actively as a ground cover. Azalea (Rhododendron): This is one of […]
Spring foraging
Six easy-to-find edible plants. This time of year is great for foraging greens in New England, particularly if your cultivated ones have yet to pop. Here are six of my favorites that are in my back yard now. Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata): These plants are beginning to bolt with the leaves starting to taste increasingly […]
Flower Friday
It is Flower Friday! Here is a sampling of the different flowers that are poking their heads in my garden today. Tulips: Having a fence definitely keeps down the deer from chomping on these tasty treats and luckily the rabbits have been ignoring them so far this season. Lady’s smock (Cardamine pratensis): This lovely little […]
Pounding flowers
It’s time to pound pansies (Viola tricolor v. hortensis)! I had to corner the market for pansies and violas to get enough material for my next horticultural therapy class, ‘Pounding Flowers’. Though a class with the title of ‘Pounding Flowers’ sounds a bit cruel, everyone loves the final result, which are prints that take the […]
May wine
It is time before the sweet woodruff (Galium odoratum) flowers to harvest it to make May wine. I was intoduced to this delightful beverage by the writings of Adelma Simmons, who used to run the legendary Caprilands Herb Farm in Coventry, CT. It is something that Juana and I enjoy every Spring. The recipe is […]
Potting up
It has finally warmed up enough so I can move all my seedlings from the indoor germination table and light to the greenhouse. The tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) are in the most need of transplanting and Charlotte is here to help. With nearly 50 plants to pot up, she wields the Sharpie pen and labels each […]
Spring is here
The May plate by @artbyrosana Rosana for my book, A Therapist’s Garden, is one that most resembles my back yard. It is now a bit early for the roses, but the tulips are out in force brightening up our landscape and being cut daily for indoor flower arrangements. From the introduction of the month of […]
Ann’s Place clean up
Last Saturday, April 24 was clean up day at @annsplaceinc and we had a full contingent of folks helping us. I was worried that it would be too late in the season, but a cool April kept most everything in statis. A bright, day, the crew weeded, raked, and spread 10 yards of Sweet Peet […]