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Current Issue of The Fringed Gentian™
Fall 2018
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The next issue will be published in Spring 2019.
Garden Plant of the Week
Selected from the many species in, or historical to, the Garden.
Philadelphia Fleabane
Erigeron philadelphicus L. var. philadelphicus
Click link on name for information and photos of this plant.
Cedars and Spruces - Life Saving Trees
Read How they prevented scurvy among early mariners, and also made beer. Article.
A Seasonal Poem
So near to paradise all pairing ends:
Here loveless birds now flock as winter friends,
Content with bud-inspecting. They presume
To say which buds are leaf and which are bloom.
A feather-hammer gives a double knock.
This Eden day is done at two o'clock.
An hour of winter day might seem too short
To make it worth life's while to wake and sport.
Taken from A Winter Eden by
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Reflections
“January is a period of quiet and repose. Nature is only sleeping, since its work is done for the present, while we enjoy a cherry fire of logs during the long nights. February’s cold often sinks to a low level in this area staying there for long spells adding a fresh sparkle to the earth’s blanket of snow. Yet before long its winter into spring, especially if we think of the quotation by Coleridge - And Winter, slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!” ” Former Garden Curator Martha Crone.
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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