One of the ideas I’ve been mulling over this winter is how to help promote the use of native plants in folks’ gardens. The hardest part of that for me is knowing more about the native plants here in Gardner, MA. That is what the hold up was when I first thought up the notion a few years ago. How could I ever find the time to research them weekly? Continue reading “Wild Wednesdays: a new series on plants native to my area”
March 16, 2021–Office Window View
Ongoing catch up with recent posts in 2021
I am still in the process of polishing up some posts and images from earlier this year, and have been slipping in a few that are backdated to when they were meant to be posted per day until I catch up. Continue reading “Ongoing catch up with recent posts in 2021”
Online lecture: Managing an Urban Landscape for Biodiversity
One of the native plant organizations here in Massachusetts is Grow Native Massachusetts. I can’t remember offhand if I’ve mentioned them before or not. They offer public lectures on various topics relating to native plants and gardening. Continue reading “Online lecture: Managing an Urban Landscape for Biodiversity”
March 11, 2021–Office Window View
“Our children don’t inherit the land from us,
we borrow it from them.”
–Native American Proverb
Rethinking inheritance of land
Spotted this garden related trivia on wiki
Did you know…that botanist Rosemary Margaret Smith had both an entire genus and a separate species named after her for her major discoveries and classification of ginger?” Continue reading “Spotted this garden related trivia on wiki”
March 2, 2021–Office Window View
So I started a local gardening group…
…on Nextdoor.com. An app that, depending on where you live, is either a toxic cesspool of humanity, or exactly what it was purported to be–an online space to chat with nearby real life neighbors (though the “nearby” part can be argued since I’m still not sure exactly how they determine their overlap–we have a few other border towns included in mine–but they are fairly low population which might be the reason). Continue reading “So I started a local gardening group…”