North Country Reflections

  It is early June, and suddenly the garden has become fulfilled. The beds are finally tidy after the ravages of winter, and flowers abound. At the same time, with the promise of things yet to come, a decidedly pregnant feeling hangs over everything. . .May is a difficult month for the north country gardener… [...]

Today was one of those fleeting  moments in the garden. At first I thought my mind was deceiving me….it looked like snow.  But, even in Vermont, it should not snow on May 22nd. In actuality it was a myriad serviceberry petals (from the four Amelanchier canadensis behind the woodshed) being tossed through the air by [...]

A picture gallery of our garden in early spring…enjoy!!

Shafts of sun streamed through the leafy canopy, highlighting an amazing array of wildflowers on the forest floor below. . Last Friday, when I visited Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Massachusetts, it was a quintessential spring day. I chuckled as I remembered it was Friday May 13th, an unlucky date for the superstitious. But [...]

A Vermont spring is swift and ephemeral. Spring in Vermont begins in late April, as the mountains take on a distinctly reddish tinge from the flowering trees.  Gradually this is overtaken by  a yellow-green haze creeping ever higher, as the trees leaf out in their predetermined order—first the aspen, then the maples, and finally the [...]