THANKS TO Jack worked twice recently. On October 4 he spent 45 min. cutting tree branches. On October 9, Jack spent 2-1/2 hours working in one of the most overgrown areas of the detention basin near Street Road in the vicinity of the Burning Bushes/Euonymus alatus (which are now huge shrubs and moderately invasive non-natives via … Continue reading BuxMont Gardens Update–October 13, 2013

WARNING Don’t park under the three black walnut trees (feature photo above), which are located between the TD Bank and our site. These hefty nuts are falling at a great rate and could dent your car or your head! Feel free to take any home to eat. The hull has to be removed, and the … Continue reading BuxMont Gardens Update–October 5, 2013

Junk re-bars, old metal fence posts, pieces of metal pipe needed to stabilize bicycle wheel fence in encounters with snowplow this winter. Contact Susie at gardening@buxmontuu.org THANKS TO Elaine cleared gravel (dumped by the snowplow last winter) and weeded around a bayberry and other shrubs on the detention basin slope. She planted her gift of 7 … Continue reading BuxMont Gardens Update–September 29, 2013

THANKS TO Dale worked independently on the parking lot end bed close to Street Road. This is the first area that visitors to our site notice. Cindy telephoned four nurseries that carry Proven Winners patented plants. We are trying to locate ‘Sugar Shack’ buttonbushes, a dwarf form of the attractive native shrub that happily grows … Continue reading BuxMont Gardens Update–September 17, 2013

NEW TREE, NEWLY VISIBLE, NEW FENCE THANKS TO Harry dug a very broad hole with his trusty claw-hammer and planted a young Ironwood (Carpinus caroliniana) in the parking lot median next to Nancy’s entrance tee-bed. Harry also built a diverter stone wall to direct water around his tree. Rick cleared the entire Celebration Garden bed just outside … Continue reading BuxMont Gardens Update, September 9, 2013

BIRDS IN THE GARDENS With the new bird feeders, we’ve been seeing several species that weren’t as visible before. Harry notes that male and female downy woodpeckers have been scraping the wires of the suet container. We’ve also seen many gold-finches, purple finches, and cardinals enjoying the feeders. The seed pods of the Sweetbay Magnolias … Continue reading BuxMont Gardens Update–August 24, 2013

GARDENS “SHRUG OFF” FLOOD Harry and I were very relieved to note that–despite total immersion for two or three hours–the soil in the affected areas seems no more saturated than it would be after a rain of the same length. If you stroll outside near the creek, you will see that the plants are all … Continue reading BuxMont Gardens Update–August 16, 2013

GARDENS FLOOD! Although we got 1-2″ of rain at BuxMont during the downpours this morning, the deluge upstream must have been heavier. Those us of who receive USGS alarm notifications [ http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv/?site_no=01464907 ] for the water gage just downstream of our site learned that the instantaneous flow peaked at 3,240 cu. ft. per second about an hour … Continue reading BuxMont Gardens Update–August 13, 2013

THANKS TO Jack, who completed mulching the new shrub bed by BuxMont’s sign. Susie, who sprayed the Gardens with Martha’s home-made deer repellent and did a little weeding. Dale, who weeded his tee-bed at BuxMont’s main entrance. Dale also weeded around the young sugar maple near one post of our banner. John, who took photos … Continue reading BuxMont Gardens Update–August 11, 2013