Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 17:51: A Longwood Christmas

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Saturday December 18, 2021 · 6:00 AM PST

2021/12/18 · 06:00

no image description available — This lovely tree is the centerpiece of this year's display. It is 21 feet high and it rotates.

Every year, on the first Monday in December, my husband and I visit Longwood Gardens, in Kennett Square, PA, for A Longwood Christmas. It would be impossible for me to describe how magnificent the gardens and conservatory are. Photographs don’t do justice to the splendor and the spectacle but I took a bunch of them anyway knowing I’d be sharing them with all of you. Enjoy!!

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Saturday October 02, 2021 · 6:00 AM PDT

2021/10/02 · 06:00

Many of my garden friends refer to me as The Garlic Lady. I’ve been growing garlic since 1997.

That year, we bought a house with several acres of land in eastern Connecticut and we spent our weekends exploring that part of the world. One weekend, we stumbled on the Pawcatuck Garlic Festival and there we met Wayne Hansen of Wayne’s Organic Farm in Oneco, Connecticut. Wayne was one of the first certified organic gardeners in Connecticut and he was a garlic evangelist. He sold me some seed garlic and gave me detailed growing instructions. I was still a novice gardener at that point, but I was an avid cook and I used a heck of lot of garlic so I was happy to try growing my own. The next summer, when I harvested my first crop, I was hooked.

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Saturday June 05, 2021 · 6:00 AM PDT

2021/06/05 · 06:00

Well, friends, I’ve been persuaded to take the plunge and write my first ever (finally) diary.

Two friends and I had planned a trip to Williamsburg in April 2020 but COVID put the kibosh on that. This February, the folks at Colonial Williamsburg reached out and made us an offer we couldn’t refuse. As we were all fully vaccinated and suffering from cabin fever, we jumped at the chance to get away for a few days and to just hang out together.

I’m primarily a veggie gardener but I was thinking of you all as we strolled around and I took pictures of things I thought you’d enjoy seeing.

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