The June 1, 2011 tornado had a huge impact on the people and the landscape of this region. On Saturday February 10th Jennifer Santoro and Danelle Laflower will present their …
Trees and Tornadoes
Purple Love Grass
When I am out and about, periodically a plant will catch my eye while driving down the road. Not that I would advocate looking at plants while you drive – …
Summer Flowers
Spring is an exciting time in the woodlands, there are so many spring or ephemeral wildflowers blooming that it is it is hard to keep track of them all – …
Garden Visits
My daughter is heading up to Maine this weekend to go camping with her roommates. She texted me this morning and was asking about a garden we visited on a …
Lady’s Slippers!
The number one plant that people call the Sanctuary about are the lady’s slippers. This is the week to come see the small yellow lady’s slippers in our gardens. There …
Spring III
Spring has arrived, slowly but surely. This has been a perfect spring season for me as I have been able to keep up with changes in the garden over the …
Spring II
In the last blog I talked about spring – and a little about the factors that determine what (and when) spring starts. In this blog I want to talk about …
Spring
Spring began at 6:29am on Monday March 20th. So why are we still looking at snow? For most of us the tease of warm weather that occurred in late February …
Fire in the Barrens of Massachusetts
Fire sounds like a dangerous thing in the landscape – we currently have a huge grass fire burning in the central part of the U.S. causing loss of life and …
Plants for Pollinators
There is a lot of information going around about protecting our pollinators. What we do in the garden, what we plant and how we interact with the environment around us …