Notes and Resources

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 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 …

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 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 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 …

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 …

On Saturday March 11th our lecture will be Weird Sex in Nature, How Plants Get it On presented by Elizabeth Farnsworth.  She is an excellent speaker and is presenting a …

Many people ask me if I am sick of winter?   Have you had enough snow? Is it time for spring?    I know that several major snowstorms in one week (or …

Now that we have been looking at seed catalogs, I thought it might be a good time to talk about how to germinate seeds. I always encourage you to add …

Looking out the window I can see the ground.  There is no snow cover in Monson right now.  That could certainly change at any moment – I have lived in …