Judith’s Garden
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Judith’s garden: A very cool greenhouse
When people mention a greenhouse, the image that often comes to mind is a vast hooped structure, 150-feet long or more, filled with growing plants, either to yield…
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Judith’s Garden: The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Autumn is surely Vermont’s most beloved season. For me, the early morning view across the misty valley to nearby Mount Moosalamoo, alive with the colors of fall —…
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Judith’s garden: Farewell to the summer
GOSHEN — It’s hard to believe that we are entering the final chapter of the garden for this year. But there is still activity to watch and plenty…
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Judith’s garden: Graceful grasses
When we think about creating a beautiful garden, most often it is the flowers that we think about first. But great gardens are much more than lots of…
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Judith’s Garden: Peonies, June’s beauty queens
June is peony time! With their massive blooms in shades of red, pink, white and yellow, peonies — one of the most beautiful and venerated garden plants —…
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Judith’s garden: Pink ribbons and white lace
And right now, spring — that most fleeting of seasons — is working its magic in Vermont. All around in gardens everywhere, we see the thousands of cheery…
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Judith’s Garden: Spring cleaning
For me the mention of “spring cleaning” awakens early memories of my childhood in England where it was considered an essential ritual to both clean one’s house and…
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Judith’s Garden: The promise of spring
Spring comes slowly in Vermont and it always seems a tad fickle. Just this morning, as I write this during the last week of March, I once again…
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Judith’s garden: It’s time for spring pruning
Right now I have my usual case of cabin fever, which hits most of us at this time of year. Even with a healthy dose of winter snowshoeing,…
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Judith’s Garden: The winter garden is a sleeping beauty
GOSHEN — Feb. 2 — Groundhog Day — has come and gone, meaning that we have passed the halfway point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox.…