Thoughtful musings on various topics by interesting people at Blithewold
It just keeps getting better
Last night’s rain may have made a few of the daffodils face-plant but it brought out that delicious fragrance of spring that put the visual beauty almost in the background. Almost. I would have closed … Read more.
Reward after taxes
Whether you just filed last night or spent your refund check on groceries weeks ago, you deserve to treat yourself to another thing in life (besides death, heaven forbid!) that’s certain: Thousands of daffodils blooming … Read more.
Dilly Dally
The past couple of days have been on the brutally chilly side but I’ve seen quite a few bundled up people lingering on the grounds anyway. The reward is that spring is dallying while it … Read more.
En route
Last weekend it seemed like a switch had been flipped and the dinge of winter was replaced by bright emerald – at least underfoot. And the dimmer-switch of daffodils, forsythia and other harbingers of spring … Read more.
Therapy
Nearly everyone is badmouthing the weather. We are all, universally it seems, ready for spring by which we might all mean summer. We want to be warm now and surrounded by green growth and flowers … Read more.
Warm welcome
It was an Out Like a Lamb kind of day yesterday and we spent a portion of it in the mansion’s dining room with as many of the garden volunteers as we could coax into … Read more.
Oh deer…
Blithewold has been pretty lucky so far. For a while it seemed like there must be an invisible 8′ high barrier encircling the property but in the past couple-three (four?) years the phantom fence has … Read more.
Mid-March bloom day
Many thanks as always to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for thinking up and hosting a monthly blooming show and tell. I’m a little late to the Ides of March party but it’s a blow-out. … Read more.
Heliotropium arborescens
When I first started at Blithewold I wasn’t the biggest fan of heliotrope. It’s been a Rose Garden staple since way before my time, and I developed an almost instant aversion to it. I found … Read more.
Hearts
Just in time for Freaky Friday and Valentine’s day (I love that these days are back to back this year), my favorite Tim Burton creation, the Witch hazel (Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Diane’) has just begun … Read more.