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Gardening is purported to be one of the best stress relievers — and it is! — but the weeks we spend planting the Blithewold gardens always make me feel a little panicky; my blood pressure rises as the to-do list lengthens. We have so many plants to ...

This week the temperatures softened just enough to keep spring from hitting the snooze button again and made being outside in the gardens totally irresistible. We didn't leave a lot in the Rose or North Gardens to cut back (we adhere to the ...

Even though it feels like winter has stalled over New England and we might never see the ground again, we are moving ahead towards spring. Our engines are revving and we'll be ready to hit the ground running at the first sign of thaw. We're ...

When we get busy I'm apt to forget my quest to learn something new every day. But during the winter we have the time and plenty of opportunities in the way of classes, lectures, symposiums, trade and garden shows to make a habit of it again. And ...

I can't quite believe we've come to the cusp of 2015 already. This year went by in such a flash! But always, by the time I put the brakes on after Christmas it feels like I lost a few days between ... oh, June maybe ... and now. Looking back at and ...

After some festive weeks spent preparing for our Christmas display and this week's wreath workshops, it was pure pleasure to be out in the gardens again. Despite the chill that crept into fingers and toes. Earlier this fall we got a jump on what's ...

No doubt about it, I have a lot to be thankful for. It might seem trivial compared to how grateful I am for things like my health and the amazing friends I've made here at Blithewold -- and I also don't mean to gloat -- but I thank my lucky stars ...

This has maybe been the prettiest fall week ever and we have spent it celebrating the gardens' downward spiral into dormancy -- as well as its eventual rebirth. You know we have a schedule to keep before allowing the volunteers to take a ...

I'd prefer to think that the season is in transition rather than ending but when we start throwing some of summer's best blooms into the bed of Blithewold's truck, it definitely feels more like a goodbye than a see-you-later. This week, once again, ...

It was chilly this morning. No frost yet (perish the thought -- our average first frost date falls in early November) but night temperatures in the forties are definitely giving us a taste of what's to come along with a chance to acclimatize, and a ...