Not a regular blog post this week folks, as I am busy preparing for the garden tour! This Sunday, June 28, from 11am – 3pm, one of our favorite gardens will be participating in the Delhi Garden Tour. Check it out! I will be there at Stop #3, and would…
The foxglove, a favorite Catskills flower, is now blooming. Some people think that it is a wildflower, because they see it growing in uncultivated ground. But those foxgloves are actually naturalized, having escaped from gardens and spread into the wild. They spread by generating copious quantities of minute seed. They…
Catskills peonies are blooming now! They may be one of the all-time favorite flowers now blooming in our gardens. The peony is well-known for being very long-lived, enduring for decades and even centuries. The famous peonies at Williamsburg were reputed to be colonial in age, but the oldest plants were…
