by Julia Farwell-Clay | Apr 21, 2022 | flowers, gardening, monthly events
Greetings from the Plant Sale Committee Our Plant Sale is only 16 days away so we thought it prudent to recap a few items and focus on the importance of getting plants dug so our fundraising efforts can be as successful as we all want them to be! We need as...
by Julia Farwell-Clay | Mar 13, 2022 | gardening, Newsletters
Happy Spring! This small delight emerged in my patio garden last week. In the fall I planted 100 Elwesii snowdrops just to get things going in that brand new bed, and was thus rewarded with an early arrival. That area gets full sun from 8 am onward these days,...
by Julia Farwell-Clay | Feb 16, 2022 | gardening
Herbaceous Amsonia hubrichtii- Blue star Amsonia tabernaemontana Angelica gigas Aster ageratoides ‘Ezo Murasaki’ Aster tataricus ‘Jindai’ Astilbe chinensis var. pumila Astilbe ‘Deutschland’ Astilbe japonica Astilbe simplicifolia...
by Garden Club | Jan 11, 2022 | gardening, skill sharing
I have been collecting books on gardening and horticulture for at least fifty years, amassing over three thousand. Julia asked that I share my favorites and most influential. Most Cherished Gertrude Jekyll, A Memoir Francis Jekyll Jonathan Cape, 1934 This is the first...
by Julia Farwell-Clay | Jan 6, 2022 | gardening
Happy New Year, everyone! I’ll be sending out a newsletter next week, but I did not want to wait until then to send along the recording of our bonus program with Doug Tallamy from Wednesday. It was the kind of session that can shift priorities, so I know...
by Julia Farwell-Clay | Nov 27, 2021 | gardening
Dear Members: Last week Cassie Banning of the Land and Garden Preserve treated us to an introduction to three incredible Downeast Maine gardens (Asticou Azalea Garden, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden, and Thuya Garden) and we learned there is such a thing...
