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Current Issue of The Fringed Gentian™
Summer 2019
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Garden Plant of the Week
Selected from the many species in, or historical to, the Garden.
Black Locust
Robinia pseudoacacia L.
Link on name goes to more information and photos of this plant.
The Birch Trees - then and now
A look at Those valuable Birches and their past and present history in the Wildflower Garden.
A Seasonal Poem
When to go out, my nurse doth wrap
Me in my comforter and cap;
The cold wind burns my face, and blows
Its frosty pepper up my nose.
Black are my steps on silver sod;
Thick blows my frosty breath abroad;
And tree and house, and hill and lake,
Are frosted like a wedding cake.
Taken from Winter-time by
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Reflections
"Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and
cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. When, formerly, I have analyzed my
partiality for some farm which I had contemplated purchasing, I have frequently found
that I was attracted solely by a few square rods of impermeable and unfathomable bog—
a natural sink in one corner of it. That was the jewel which dazzled me. I derive more of
my subsistence from the swamps which surround my native town than from the
cultivated gardens in the village”
Henry Thoreau from Walking, 1862
Garden theme items for sale
Downloadable PDF format books.
1907-1933. Companion book to The Wild Gardener
Martha Crone and the Wild Flower Garden
1933-1958. Companion book to the Crone History
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