This is where you can read all about my garden. It is updated on an irregular basis but is always guaranteed to be of interest.

Please note

All content included on this site such as text, graphics and images is protected by U.S and international copyright law.
The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of the site copyright holder.
All images are the property of BelleWood Gardens unless otherwise so noted.
These images are not available for reuse either electronically or in print
without written permission from Judy Glattstein.

Jump to Month by Month for diary-style entries
about gardens, plants, and (mostly) horticultural happenings
or go directly to the most recent entries in June 2010 .
Up front are entries for symposiums I've attended, trips I've taken,
memes, and what's in bloom at BelleWood Gardens.

• BelleWood in Bloom 2010 Last Updated: 29 June 2010
  BelleWood in Bloom 2009
  BelleWood in Bloom 2008
  BelleWood in Bloom 2007
  BelleWood in Bloom 2006

• Seasonal Care of the Garden
  Hints, tips, and techniques for month by month care of the garden

• A Meme of Garden Books
  Last Updated: 8 June 2006

• The Opinionated Gardener
  Last Updated: 17 June 2009

• Garden Writers Association in Portland, Oregon
  September 18th through 24th, 2008

• Perennial Plant Association in Philadelphia
  July 21st through 27th, 2008

• A Week on North Carolina's Crystal Coast
  August 26 through September 2, 2007

• Garden Writers' Get-Together in Philadelphia
  August 25th through 30th, 2006

• Puerto Rico
  July 6th through 13th, 2006

  ---

  Month by Month

  ---

• June 2010
  First Week:Digging Bamboo
  Fourth Week: Uncovering the Garden; Soirée at Bamboo Brook

• May 2010
  First Week: Homage to Emily Dickinson; A Visit to Chanticleer; Chanticleer, Attention to Details; Chanticleer in Bloom in the Merry Month of May
  Second Week: May Will Be A Quiet Month
  Fourth Week: Call Me Magellan

• April 2010
  First Week: Geometry of Cutting A Tree; A Visit to Buck Garden; And A Visit to Willowwood; Down On My Knees
  Second Week: Back to Buck Garden; Garden Party
  Third Week: A Tumult of Tulips
  Fourth Week: A Visit to Winterthur; A Visit to Mt. Cuba; Covering Ground at Mt. Cuba; Mt. Cuba, Post Scriptum; Omnium Gatherum

• March 2010
  First Week: Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Orchid Portraits from the New York Botanical Garden's Orchid Show
  Third Week: Little Bulbs in Bloom; Getting Potted
  Fourth Week: Flowering Trees at Rutgers Gardens

• February 2010
  First Week: Potted Bulbs
  Second Week: 37 Days Until Spring
  Third Week: How Joe Saved the Coontie Patch

• January 2010
  First Week: Sleeping Cat; Nakashima Reading Room at the Michner Museum

• December 2009
  Second Week: Winter Visit to Leonard J. Buck Garden
  Third Week: Let It Snow; My Holiday Decorating Traditions
  Fourth Week: Yule Log

• November 2009
  First Week: Autumn at the New York Botanical Garden; Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden; Ginkgo at the New York Botanical Garden UPDATE and in New Jersey; Deer, Oh Dear
  Third Week:Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden, Part 2

• October 2009
  First Week: A Flock of Mushrooms UPDATE
  Second Week: Framing a Path
  Fourth Week: Kiku in the Japanese Autumn Garden at the New York Botanical Garden

• September 2009
  First Week: Open Day at North Creek Nurseries; Dansko LEED; Stroud Water Research Center; A Visit with Gloria Day; Toad
  Third Week: Author, Author at Linden Hill

• August 2009
  First Week: Summer Storm II; The Edible Garden at the New York Botanical Garden; Summer in Four-Season Border at the New York Botanical Garden
  Second Week: Driveway Repair
  Fourth Week: Brief Visit to Linden Hill; A Visit to Turnip Truck Garden UPDATE; Banana Leaf Cookery UPDATE

• July 2009
  Second Week: Shopping for Plants; Paws to Read
  Third Week:Watnong Picnic; Grasslands; Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter; A Visit to Carousel Farm Lavender
  Fourth Week: Rutgers Gardens Open Day; Summer Storm; PANTS

• June 2009
  First Week: Catnapping; Pinellia cordifolia; More Garden Visitors
  Second Week: Weed Eaters; Visits to Leonard Buck Garden
  Third Week: Solstice Sunset
  Fourth Week: Look What I Found!; Garden Club's Garden Visit; Sleek Sheep; Fruitful; Strange Clouds; Watch Where You Step!; Rainy Day Visitor

• May 2009
  First Week: Visitors to BelleWood Gardens
  Second Week: Mushrooms
  Fourth Week: What's This?; A Visit to the Arboretum at Temple University Ambler; The Iris Garden at Delaware Valley College; Garden Conservancy's Open Days - 30 May: Jon Carloftis' garden; Cedaridge, garden of Derek and Carolyn Fell; Twin Silo Farm; Garden Conservancy's Open Days - 31 May: Greenwood; Jericho Mountain Orchards; Hortulus Farm

• April 2009
  First Week: Rainbow in the Sky; Ornamental Grass Work Day at Rutgers Gardens
  Third Week: Sakura at Branch Brook Park
  Fourth Week: Flowering Trees at Willowwood Arboretum; The Glory of Dutch Bulbs at the New York Botanical Garden; 4-Season Border at the New York Botanical Garden; Old Stone Church

• March 2009
  First Week:Winter's Last Snow
  Second Week: Patti's Charleston Garden; Middleton Place; Angel Oak; Nursery Visits Around Charleston; Omnium Gatherum Around Charleston; Fog Comes in On Little Cat Feet
  Third Week: Pruning Peach Trees UPDATE; Beautiful Bats UPDATE; Hellebore Weekend at Linden Hill

• February 2009
  First Week: Nesting Squirrels
  Second Week: The Robins Have Returned
  Third Week: The Birds; Linden Hill Gardens Horticultural Chat Room
  Fourth Week: A Sign of Spring; Lady Lumberjack; Philadelphia Flower Show, Part 1: Statues

• January 2009
  Third Week: Who Visits BelleWood Gardens?; More Moore, In Winter

• December 2008
  Second Week: Winter Green; A Visit to Well Sweep Herb Farm
  Third Week: Cozy Cats
  Fourth Week:Holly and the Ivy

• November 2008
  First Week: Who Lives Here?
  Second Week: Why We Call It Fall
  Third Week:Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Terrariums; Planting Bulbs in the Four Season Garden at The New York Botanical Garden

• October 2008
  Third Week: Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden; Bonsai at the New York Botanical Garden; The Chrysanthemum in Japanese Art at the New York Botanical Garden; Monumental Sculptures: Henry Moore at the New York Botanical Garden
  Fourth Week: An Evening Reception at the New York Botanical Garden; Tohickon Graden Club Visit to Buck Garden

• August 2008
  Second Week: Hypertufa, Part I; Hypertufa, Part II
  Third Week: A Visit to Willowwood; Onward, to Buck Gardens
  Fourth Week: Mushroom House and Its Garden

• July 2008
  First Week: Knit On Wednesday; Bat Pups UPDATED
  Second Week: Carousel Farm Lavender; At Carousel Farm; Making a Lavender Bottle
  Third Week: My Banana Is In Bloom
  Perennial Plant Association in Philadelphia: Street Scapes; John Bartram and His Garden; A Center City Community Garden; Chanticleer; In the Wet at Chanticleer; Have a Seat at Chanticleer; PPA Media Award; Conard-Pyle's Perennial Plants; Longwood Gardens in the Rain; Water Plants at Longwood Gardens; Mystical, Magical Bus Tour; Handmade Gardens; WynEden; Frog Hollow; Mt. Cuba; Echinacea Trials at Mt. Cuba; North Creek Nurseries; Meadowbrook Farm; Twin Silo Farm; Mill Fleurs; Linden Hill; Dinner at Linden Hill; Omnium Gatherum

• June 2008
  First Week: Grounds for Sculpture: Pattern Play, Mannequins, Water; Watnong Soirée
  Second Week: In the Bamboo Jungle; A Bounty of Bulbs
  Third Week: Atlock: Plants, People, Pets, and More; Getting Potted: Options at Atlock; Elderflower Cordial; Solstice Festivities
  Fourth Week: Locavore: At the Dvoor Farm Farmers Market; Locavore: At Nagy's Orchard

• May 2008
  First Week: Hooters; Down South; Wisteria at Van Vleck; At Van Vleck
  Second Week: Darwin's Garden, Revisited; The New York Botanical Garden, Redux; Die Fledermaus
  Third Week: Getting Potted; Moore in America: Monumental Sculpture at the New York Botanical Garden
  Fourth Week: A Rainbow of Iris [Sunny Iris; Iris Blues; Pretty in Pink; Iris Fancies; Siberian and Other Beardless Iris]

• April 2008
  First Week: Daffodil Days
  Second Week: Another Visit to Buck Gardens; A Visit to Natirar; A Visit to Willowwood
  Fourth Week: Darwin's Garden; Tulip Time; Trees in Lavish Bloom; Plant Sale at Buck Gardens; Yet Another Visit to Buck Gardens; Rain, Lovely Rain; Leftovers for Lunch; Nettle Soup

• March 2008
  First Week: Philadelphia Flower Show: Part One - Jazz It Up; Part Two - Del Valley Chapter NARGS; Part Three - Jacques Armand Bulb Company; Part Four - Horticulture Competitions; Part Five - Look and Learn; Part Six - Stuff For Sale; After the Rain; Springfest; Leonard J. Buck Gardens
  Second Week: After The Show Is Over
  Fourth Week: Bountiful Bouquets

• February 2008
  Second Week: Flowers and Ice
  Third Week: New Jersey Flower and Garden Show; Lambing Season
  Fourth Week: It's Still Winter; Trash to Treasures

• January 2008
  First Week: Corsage for Clerodendron; Wild Geese; House of Coffee; Houseplant How-To
  Second Week: A Change in the Weather; Who Needs a Mouse?
  Third Week: A Gathering of Grackles
  Fourth Week: Forcing Spring; Bought a Bouquet

• December 2007
  First Week: Lights, Camera, Action; Gingerbread Wonderland
  Second Week: Winter Greens
  Fourth Week: Boxing Day at The Ship Inn

• November 2007
  First Week: Winterizing the Greenhouse; Sunday Brunch; Kiku, Rejuvenated; Building the Garden Railroads
  Second Week: A Class On the Japanese-Inspired Garden; Systema Naturae
  Third Week: Tower Hill Botanic Garden; Honey Pot Hill Apple Farm
  Fourth Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Gingerbread Adventure at the New York Botanical Garden; Autumn Afternoon at Wave Hill

• October 2007
  First Week: Farmers Market at Dvoor Farm; Harvest Festival at Jockey Hollow; Lepidoptera Art
  Second Week: Pumpkins and Scarecrows; At the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
  Third Week: Viewed by the Camera
  Fourth Week: Potting Bulbs for Forcing; Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden; Bulb Basics; The Frost Was On The Pumpkins

• September 2007
  Second Week: When Will the First Frost Come? UPDATE; A Visit to Trauger's Farm Market; Outside to Indoors
  Third Week: Daisy, Daisy; Fashion in Bloom
  Fourth Week: Vendange at Alba Vineyard; A Visit to Meadowbrook Farm; Wave Hill in Autumn; Daisy, Daisy at Wave Hill; Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden

• August 2007
  First Week: Tri-State Hosta Society Meeting in Connecticut
  Second Week: Luxuriously Planted Containers; Jersey Fresh
  Third Week: Berry, Berry; After the Storm; Summer Picnic in Parsippany; Prepare for the Flower Show
  Fourth Week: High Style Chrysanthemums; Shitakes / Silver Lining; A Week on North Carolina's Crystal Coast

• July 2007
  First Week: Garden Party for Nadia; Blueberry Summer
  Second Week: Honey, Honeybees; Carousel Farm Lavender Fields Forever; Teenage Turtle; 3 Gardens + 1
  Third Week: Back at Carousel Farm for More Lavender; A Visit to Solebury Orchards
  Fourth Week: Haying: A Visit to the Tinicum Herb Barn

• June 2007
  First Week: Long Tail Salamander; Assembly Line Plant Stands
  Third Week: Community Farmers Market at Dvoor Farm; Garden Party at Atlock Farm; Evening Soirée at Willowwood
  Fourth Week: Morning Light; Second Dvoor Farm Farmers Market; A Bus Tour to Wave Hill; Tuteurs at Wave Hill; Thoreau-Inspired Art at at Wave Hill; Water Barrels

• May 2007
  Second Week: A Garden Near Baltimore, Maryland; Another Garden Near Baltimore, Maryland; Rutgers Gardens Spring Plant Sale
  Third Week: Consider the Leaf; Herbs for Sale; Black Vultures
  Fourth Week: A Hosta Garden in Pennsylvania; A Goody Box from Terra Nova; Turkey Strut; A Visit to Van Vleck; Presby Memorial Iris Garden

• April 2007
  First Week: Shades of Green; Coping with Invasive Vines
  Second Week: A Sign of Spring
  Third Week: Spring? What Spring?
  Fourth Week: Wave Hill in Springtime; Art at Wave Hill: Emily Dickinson Rendered; The Auricula Theater at the New York Botanical Garden; Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

• March 2007
  First Week: Charlotte, North Carolina: Orchids in the Greenhouse; Through the Garden Gate; Southern Spring Home and Garden Show; Palm Trees in Charlotte; Elizabeth Lawrence's Garden
  Second Week: Cloning a Pelargonium
  Third Week: It's Still Winter UPDATE; Preview of Spring; Once Upon A Time, Long Ago and In Another Country; Tree Shadow
  Fourth Week: Birthday Cake; Knit on Wednesday

• February 2007
  First Week: Real Wood
  Third Week: Real Winter
  Fourth Week: Coming Up This Weekend; Recycled Into An Endangered Species

• January 2007
  First Week: New Year's Day; Yeast
  Second Week: January's Flowers; Spring Flowers in the Winter House: Awakening; Streptocarpella saxorum
  Third Week: Seasonal Weather; What Do You Call a Collection of Geese?; Yeast II: Rye Bread
  Fourth Week: Frost; Picking Lemons

• December 2006
  First Week: Gingerbread; Atlock's Annual Holiday Open House; Pretty Pony; Kudos for Buried Treasures
  Second Week: The History of Gingerbread; A Wreath for the Kitchen; Christmas Cat; Gingerbread Adventure; Gingerbread, postscriptum
  Third Week: Morning Visitors; All In The Family - Gingerbread; Gingerbread, Redundant; Piebald Deer
  Fourth Week: Cozy Cat; Blooming, It's a Struggle; Rushing the Season

• November 2006
  First Week: Bringing in the Sheaves; Winterizing the Outdoor Banana
  Second Week: It's Called "Fall" For a Reason; Watnong Chapter NARGS Annual / Luncheon Meeting; Buried Treasures
  Third Week: Planting Buried Treasures; Botany of a Fruitcake; On Track with the Garden Railroad
  Fourth Week: Turkeys on the Run; Treehouse; My New Book Is Here!

• October 2006
  First Week: Buried Treasures: Down to the Wire; The Ents; Autumn at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum; A Day at the New York Botanical Garden
  Second Week: A Picnic in the Park; Timber! UPDATE; Frost
  Third Week: Spring Flowers in the Winter House: Hyacinths, UPDATE; Spring Flowers in the Winter House: Tulips: Spring Flowers in the Winter House: Daffodils; A Window Box of Bulbs
  Fourth Week: Wave Hill in Autumn; In BelleWood's Greenhouse

• September 2006
  First Week: Another Visit to the New York Botanical Garden; And Another Visit to Wave Hill
  Second Week: The Sound of Dragons
  Third Week: Seattle Travels: Day One - A Seattle Sampler; Day Two - Ferry to Vashon; Day Three - Farmers Market; Day Three - Garden Visits; Day Four - Kitchen Ware; Day Five - A Garden on the Way to Bellingham; Day Six - Two Gardens in Bellingham; One Last Nursery in Seattle

• August 2006
  Third Week: Art in the Garden: Chihuly at the New York Botanical Garden; Garden Improvement - Art at Wave Hill; What's Brewing at The Ship Inn
  Fourth Week: Garden Writers' Get-Together: Off to the Conference, and a Visit to the Trade Show; Stormy Weather; Keynote Address; Private Garden Tour in Chadds Ford; Conard-Pyle; A Wilmington Walking Tour; Dining and Dancing at Longwood Gardens; Story Tours / Garden Visits; Fête Champêtre at Chanticleer; Optional Post-Symposium Tour in the Lehigh Valley and Allentown Area; Plant Lovers Discovery Tour: Progressive Women in Horticulture

• July 2006
  First Week: Puerto Rico: At the Hotel; Festival de las Flores; At the Botanic Garden; El Yunque; Piñones; Viejo San Juan; Vieques; Along the Boulevards and Back Alleys
  Second Week: Hydrangea Day; Flowers at Fordhook Farm
  Third Week: Trompet de Mort UPDATE
  Fourth Week: Summer, and Everything's Peachy

• June 2006
  First Week: Buried Treasures Preview
  Second Week: Perennial Annuals; Hydrangeas, and Chemistry in the Garden; Two Garden Visits: First the Barads; Second at the Coutins; Oyster Mushrooms; Zoysia Problems UPDATE
  Third Week: Praying / Preying Mantis
  Fourth Week: Garden Writers Meeting; Pleasant Run Nursery

• May 2006
  First Week: Gardeners at Work; Mare and Foal; Vole Control; Cactus Flowers; Plant Swap at the Silbersteins
  Second Week: Teacher, Teacher; Rutgers Gardens Plant Fair
  Third Week: Dryad's Saddle; A Meme of Gardening Books
  Fourth Week: Hortulus Farms; Memorial Day Parade

• April 2006
  First Week: Shading the Greenhouse; The Longevity of Bulbs; Winter's Last Gasp
  Second Week: Lawn, Part I; Stink, Stank, Stunk; Lawn, Part II
  Third Week:Tulips and Tutu; A Conservatory Show at the New York Botanical Garden
  Fourth Week: A Dainty Daffodil; Ruins; Falling Water; Tulips and Topiary; Topiary Update; Garden in the Woods; The Hunt House Inn; Dogtooth Violets

• March 2006
  First Week: Return to Wave Hill, Again; Return to Wave Hill - Alpine House; Return to Wave Hill - South African Bulbs in Bloom; Iris danfordiae; At the Philadelphia Flower Show; Another Mini-Preview for the Bulb Exhibition
  Second Week: Water, Watering; Spring is Sprung; The Thrill of Victory
  Third Week: The Day Before Spring; Kinsman Company
  Fourth Week: Greenhouse Bulbs in Bloom

• February 2006
  First Week: An Offer Too Good to Refuse!; Mini-Preview for the Bulb Exhibition
  Fourth Week: The Birds; Lambing Season

• January 2006
  First Week: New Year's Day; Coping with Winter
  Second Week: Wave Hill in Winter; Banana in My Bedroom; Mist Asleep
  Fourth Week: Return to Wave Hill; Return to Wave Hill: Behind the Scenes in the Conservatory; Return to Wave Hill: In the Conservatory; Look What I Found! Update

• December 2005
  First Week: Pastured Chickens; Atlock Flower Farm's Holiday Open House
  Second Week: Redouté's Flowers
  Third Week: Winter's Solstice; Cozy Kitty; A Flower for Year's End

• November 2005
  What's in Bloom in November
  First Week: Momijigari; Willowwood and Autumn Colors; Willowwood and Autumn Berries
  Third Week: Ginkgo
  Fourth Week: Clusius Garden; The New York Botanical Garden's Holiday Train Show

• October 2005
  What's in Bloom in October
  First Week: Photo Shoot; A Japanese Woodlander; A Bulb Potting Workshop (image update)
  Second Week: Weather, and Another Bulb Potting Workshop
  Third Week: Horticulture Magazine Lecture Tour: Part One; Horticulture Magazine Lecture Tour: Part Two; There Are Fairies in the Garden
  Fourth Week: An Enormous Puffball; Autumn Harvest; Grass, or Not Grass?; Autumn Crocus

• September 2005
  What's in Bloom in September
  First Week:St. Fiacre; Firewood for Winter; It's a Jungle Out There
  Second Week: Focus on Mexico; Hunter / Killer Insect; Little Frog
  Third Week: Garden Party; Annual Extravaganza; Shell Beans
  Fourth Week: Eastern Performance Trials - Fashion in Bloom; Bananas on the Move

• August 2005
  What's in Bloom in August
  First Week: Make Sure You Read the Label; A Visit to the New York Botanical Garden; Waterlilies at the New York Botanical Garden
  Second Week: Rain; A Day in a Tropical Garden
  Third Week: Night Blooming Cereus; Companionship; Magic Lilies
  Fourth Week: Garden Club's Garden Visit; A Day in the Garden; Another Day in the Garden

• July 2005
  What's in Bloom in July
  First Week: The Glorious Fourth; Pollia japonica; Arisaema fargesii
  Second Week: Rain Lilies; Beetles and Bugs - August Update
  Third Week: Entomophilus; Chanterelles Are Back! - August Update; Made for the Shade; Lilies in Bloom; Summer Fruit; Hazy, Crazy, Lazy Days of Summer
  Fourth Week: Darkest Heart of Africa; Summer Means It's Time for Corn; Here Comes the Sun(Flowers); PANTS; Flutterby; The 41st Annual Rutgers Gardens Open House

• June 2005
  What's in Bloom in June
  First Week: Weeds; Book Signing; Both Hands Weeding; How Many Books?; Bananas on the Move; Heirloom Tomatoes - August Update; Hazy, Hot, and Humid
  Second Week: Cup Plant; A Visit to Well-Sweep Herb Farm; Rain and the Garden(er); Cannas in the Garden; Omnium Gatherum; Bog Plants
  Third Week: A Visit to Wave Hill; A Garden Club Starts to Sprout; The Tropical Look; A Visit to Atlock Farm; More Omnium Gatherum
  Fourth Week: Wave Hill Revisited; Arisaema and Other Aroids; A Haul of Hosta; Into the Woods, Out with the Weeds

• May 2005
  The Sound of One Hand Weeding --- A Couple of Reviews for Bulbs for Garden Habitats

• April 2005
  Artists in BelleWood Garden --- Bulbs for Garden Habitats, My Newest Book --- Heating Mat

• March 2005
  Cover Girl --- Snow Cat --- Philadelphia Flower Show

• December 2004
  Autumn Leaf Cleanup & Lawn Care --- Wintering Over Banana Plants --- Creating a Drainage Channel
• November 2004
  Momijigari, Japanese Autumn Garden Exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden --- Firewood --- Fox
• March 2004
  Weeding --- Snowdrops and Other Little Bulbs of Early Spring --- Windowbox of Bulbs
• February 2004
  Spring IS On the Way
• January 2004
  Wood Ashes and Compost
• December 2003
  Consider the Leaf, My Newest Book --- Holiday Garden Railroad Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden --- Winter Foliage
• Fall 2003
  Houseplants Return Indoors
• August 2003
  Chanterelles --- Beyond Terracotta with Campagnia Planters
• July 2003
  Weeds, Again --- BelleWood Gardening School --- Re-Tiring --- Penn Allied Nursery Trade Show
• May 2003
  Daffodils --- Weeding --- Plant Swapping
• March & April 2003
  Shade for the Greenhouse --- Daffodils --- Plants Along Magnolia Way
• February 2003
  Winter Pruning --- What's Blooming in My Greenhouse --- Consider the Leaf
• August 2002
  A Visit to Holland: the Floriade, Palais Het Loo, the Bulb District, and More --- Rain Barrels
• May 2002
  Drought --- New Shrubs --- Rain Barrels --- Bulbs for Damp Sites --- Fake Bamboo Fence
• February 2002
  The Garden Awakens
• January 2002
  Decorating Holiday / Solstice Trees
• November 2001
  Cyclamen Society
• October 2001
  Proctecting the Garden Bananas
• August 2001
  Plants for a Small Shady Border
• July 2001
  Weeds, Seeds, and Bulbs
• June 2001
  Creating Magnolia Way