Thoughtful musings on various topics by interesting people at Blithewold
It just keeps getting better
Last night’s rain may have made a few of the daffodils face-plant but it brought out that delicious fragrance of spring that put the visual beauty almost in the background. Almost. I would have closed … Read more.
Reward after taxes
Whether you just filed last night or spent your refund check on groceries weeks ago, you deserve to treat yourself to another thing in life (besides death, heaven forbid!) that’s certain: Thousands of daffodils blooming … Read more.
Dilly Dally
The past couple of days have been on the brutally chilly side but I’ve seen quite a few bundled up people lingering on the grounds anyway. The reward is that spring is dallying while it … Read more.
En route
Last weekend it seemed like a switch had been flipped and the dinge of winter was replaced by bright emerald – at least underfoot. And the dimmer-switch of daffodils, forsythia and other harbingers of spring … Read more.
Therapy
Nearly everyone is badmouthing the weather. We are all, universally it seems, ready for spring by which we might all mean summer. We want to be warm now and surrounded by green growth and flowers … Read more.
Up cloche
The other day Gail brought in the new terrarium book – which happens to be called The New Terrarium: Creating Beautiful Displays for Plants and Nature by Tovah Martin. I haven’t read a word of … Read more.
Warm welcome
It was an Out Like a Lamb kind of day yesterday and we spent a portion of it in the mansion’s dining room with as many of the garden volunteers as we could coax into … Read more.
Oh deer…
Blithewold has been pretty lucky so far. For a while it seemed like there must be an invisible 8′ high barrier encircling the property but in the past couple-three (four?) years the phantom fence has … Read more.
On the coir bandwagon
When Fred (Blithewold’s dir. of hort.) suggested that Gail and I start making our own potting soil, we were totally game. We had already started looking into alternatives to our peat based mixes and were … Read more.
A jump on spring
The weather has been so mild this past week that we couldn’t help but be outside cleaning up – about two weeks ahead of last year. And I know we’re not alone – it seems … Read more.