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Nostalgia swirls in the September air like leaves on a breeze. Maybe it's the back-to-school vibes that are forever in my heart or maybe it's the cooler air and darkening days - whatever the cause, I find myself taking stock of life when summer ...

Part of the Gardeners Roundtable. Gifts from your Garden: Growing Cut Flowers to Share Saturday, October 13 10 - 11:30 am In the Cutting Garden Speaker: Gail Read This year Blithewold’s garden volunteers filled jelly jars with flowers from ...

A Changing Atmosphere in the Gardens Cutting Garden with Love in a Puff (Cardiospermum halicacabum) and Cardinal Climber (Ipomoea x multifida) The changes in temperature, moisture and light have created a more relaxed mood in the gardens. As ...

It's been yet another hot week here in Rhode Island! I tend to prefer the heat to the cold but this is really testing my limits. Luckily, the flowers don't seem to mind (although they would love a nice rain sometime soon). The vines in the featured ...

Murmurations and Other Hints of Late Summer Feathertop grass ( Pennisetum villosum) This last week of August is still very much summer, but there are hints of the seasonal shift.  There are the obvious changes in the light noticeable in the ...

August Blooms, Meadow Sounds and Breezes by the Bay Blooming in the Cutting Garden burgundy burnet ( Sanguisorba ternuifolia) and yellow sunflower-like cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum) Why would you walk along our garden paths in this August’s ...

Phew! It's been a hot couple of weeks. The plants and the people have been doing their best to stay comfortable in the humidity. Often the heat spells the end to some of our favorite flowers. The sweet peas I wrote about last time have been total ...

Lusty Flowers, Birdsongs and Busy Bees Sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) in cutting garden July gardens are a happy mix of colorful flowers and songbirds and bees gracefully dipping in and out of the gardens. I see visitors mesmerized watching the ...

The Summer Shift with Swallows, Delphiniums and Annuals Dahlia ‘Stillwater Plum’ (single flower) and Dahlia ‘Elizabeth’ in the Rose Garden July’s heat and high sun heralds another transition in all the gardens. Just as May and June had their ...

June is when our gardening dreams begin to come true. The Cutting Garden is currently full of sweet peas (Lathyrus) blooming on bamboo arches. This all began with Gail's vision this past winter. I recall her saying how she had a dream for the ...