THIS THIRD “POST” of the day highlights Harry’s (and Elaine’s) spring wildflowers in the Detention Basin Wild Garden. Many of the spring flowers are just completing their blossoming though the Merrybells (Uvularia grandiflora) and Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium) haven’t bloomed yet [not pictured]. Harry concentrates most of the spring wildflowers in, or across from, the Spring Circle. … Continue reading Gardens Update–May 11, 2015, 6:15 p.m.
THANKS to Gary, who gave two portable hose reels with hoses to BuxMont’s Gardens. One will be placed next to the faucet in the wall adjacent to the rear parking lot. The other will help control the hoses in the parking lot median. The photo shows Lynne‘s work last week in cutting back dead foliage, weeding, … Continue reading Gardens Update–May 11, 2015, 6 p.m.
NOW that family visitors have returned to Oregon, Massachusetts, and Maryland, Susie is back in the Gardens preparing for the May 16 work day (weather permitting). Ten cubic yards of mulch have been ordered for next Thursday. Over the past several years, the large beds in the Celebration Garden have accidentally grown wider. This is a … Continue reading Gardens Update–May 11, 2015, 5:45 p.m.
WHILE I haven’t been to BuxMont at all for more than a week due to visits from out-of-town family, other Gardeners have been working hard on various projects. On Tuesday, May 5, Lynne tackled the remaining spent foliage at the creek end of the berm bed in the Celebration Garden. She cut back the large … Continue reading Gardens Update–May 10, 2015
THANKS TO INDEPENDENT GARDENERS Lynne, Rick, and Harry, who worked at various times this week while I was shuffling boxes in our son’s former bedroom, trying to clear out before his much-anticipated visit from Oregon tomorrow. Lynne worked on Tuesday. She tidied the small garden bed outside of Dawn Star’s window next to the rear … Continue reading Gardens Update–May 1, 2015
OUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE in the Detention Basin Wild Garden is controlling invasive and undesired plants. Since it took me a few years to recognize the issue, we’ve been “behind” for the last couple of years. Several of us women worked in 2013 to clean many major invaders out of the area near the Bald Cypress, including … Continue reading Gardens Update–April 25, 2015
RICK, one of our most skilled gardeners, who can be frequently found volunteering at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve and Peace Valley Park, has been squeezing in work time at BuxMont over the past week+. He has been cutting back the liriope in the Entrance Gardens (giving Nancy a break), a frustrating task since no method seems … Continue reading Gardens Update–April 24, 2015
SIX OF US (plus Nancy out in the Entrance Gardens) worked to clear the upper Celebration Garden bed (stretching from the sandbox to the bird feeders) of accumulated red oak leaves, moonflower debris (the moonflowers were very happy last year despite the deer), and other stalks and foliage. John, Susie, Dale, Ken, Melissa, and Adrienne … Continue reading Gardens Update–April 20, 2015
It was a beautiful day for work in BuxMont’s Gardens. Five of us collected trash and dead branches (there’s plenty of trash left!); used Ruth’s gift Ryobi hedgetrimmer to cut down ornamental grasses, beautyberries, and caryopteris; removed snow poles; added mulch to the path from TD Bank; cleaned up the tee-bed near Street Road, and … Continue reading BuxMont Gardens Update–April 11, 2015
THIS WAS AN ACCIDENTAL JUST-IN-TIME GARDENS WORK AFTERNOON. The unexpected severe freezes over the past week thoroughly killed the canna foliage and made me worry that the canna rhizomes (I had to check for the technically correct name for the “bulbs”) might be damaged by the 17 deg. temps. With this afternoon being sunny and … Continue reading Gardens Update–November 23, 2014
