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(mostly) horticultural happenings. Or go directly to the most recent entries in May 2022
Entries relating to specific pages for my covid-19 preps, cooking, public safety may be found here
Gardening books that I have reviewed in 2021 can be found here
What's in bloom at BelleWood Gardens. BelleWood in Bloom 2021 Last Updated: 18 August 2021
You can also see when what flowered in previous years What to do when, in the garden. Opinionated gardeners. Favorite books. Come travel with me and enjoy these entries for symposiums I've attended and trips I've taken.
Seasonal Care of the Garden
The Opinionated Gardener
A Meme of Garden Books
First Week: Dragon Tree, Paulownia fortunei; Upcoming Garden Conservancy Open Days in May; Gardens of the Garden State, a book review
Second Week: Garden Conservancy Open Days: Anita Shearan Garden; Garden Conservancy Open Days: Bird Haven Farm; Upcoming in June: The View From Federal Twist, A Trifecta
Third Week: Garden Conservancy Open Days: Gardens at Half Moon
Fourth Week: Upcoming in June at the New York Botanical Garden: Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love
First Week: Garden Styles: Vegetable Gardens
Second Week: Barbeque at the Quakertown NJ Fire Company; Storing Fresh Mushrooms
Fourth Week: Freezing Rain; The Color Purple
Fourth Week: Garden Styles: Herbs in the Garden
First Week: Christmas at Howell Living History Farm
Fourth Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden
First Week: Autumn's Produce at Phillips Farm Market; Making Cider at Howell Living History Farm; Farm Animals at Howell Living History farm
Second Week: Flower Flash, a book review; Making Sausage and Scrapple at Howell Living History Farm
Third Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden, a preview; Logging with Horses at the Howell Living History Farm
Fourth Week: Thanksgiving Dinner for Two; Duck Redux
First Week: Lenape Lifeways program at Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum; Fire Alarms Are Making Noise . . .
Third Week: Tea at The Spinnery; Edible Flowers; How, Why and When We Eat Flowers; The Art of Leaf Embroidery
Fourth Week: Another Sunday Tea at The Spinnery; All Hallow's Eve
Second Week: Making Driveway Repairs After September's Storm
Third Week: Open Day Garden Visit to Hay Honey Farm
Fourth Week: Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants & Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, a book review
Second Week: Upcoming at the New York Botanical Garden on August 14 & 21 Make Ink: A Forager's Guide; About Making Ink, A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking
Third Week: About Supplies and Making Foraged Ink
Fourth Week: Make Ink: A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking, a book review
Second Week: Upcoming on July 23, a free webinarFood and Culture of the Latinx World
Third Week: Garden Conservancy Open Day in Hunterdon County, New Jersey: The Garden at Federal Twist; Pretty Bird Farm
Third Week: Designed for Nature Garden Tour
Fourth Week: Rosa, the story of the rose, a book review
First Week: Six On Saturday; Flowers Around Town in May
Second Week: Again, Six On Saturday; Repotting Rabbit Foot Fern
Third Week: Three for Saturday
Fourth Week: Six On Saturday at the End of May
First Week: A Forest for the Centuries; Flowers Around Town in April; Upcoming at the New York Botanical Garden: Kusama: Zoominar and Exhibition
Second Week: Six On Saturday
Third Week: Yayoi Kusama: Cosmic Nature, a Webinar; Another Six On A Different Saturday
Fourth Week: Saturday's Six; Kusama: Cosmic Nature at the New York Botanical Gardens; Tulips at the New York Botanical Gardens
Second Week: Vaccination for Covid-19
Third Week: Year of the Hyacinth; Tree Work
Fourth Week: Hummelo, A Journey Through a Plantsman's Life, a book review; Carving a Tree; Flowers Around Town, in March
Third Week: Phillips Farms Tour; About Lentils
First Week: Dried Bean Dishes
Fourth Week: Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve & Classify the World's Plants, a book review
First Week: Another Visit to Phillips Farm Market; Fennel and Carrot Confit
Second Week: A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids, a book review
Fourth Week: Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter, a book review
Third Week: Lovely Produce at Phillips Farm Market; Garden Portraits, Experiences of Natural Beauty, a book review
Fourth Week: Our Thanksgiving Dinner; Seasonal Decorations
First Week: Oktoberfest at the Quakertown Fire Company
Second Week: Autumn Landscape Garden Plants, Part II
Third Week: Time to Move the Bananas Indoors
Fourth Week: Preparing for Winter; Autumn Arrives: The Astronomical First Day of Fall; Autumn's Bulbs - the Colchicums; Today I Transplanted Some Colchicums; Autumn Interest in the Landscape Garden; Cultivated, The Elements of Floral Style, a book review
First Week: Flowers Around Town in August
various dates in August Omnium Gatherum, a collection of miscellaneous things
First Week: Daylilies and Deer; Blueberry Summer: The History of Blueberry Cultivation; Today I Divided a Pot of Crinum
Second Week: Blueberry Summer - Part Two: The Cultivation of Blueberries; Janet's Victorious Vegetable Garden in Summer
Third Week: Flowers Around Town in July; Blueberry Summer: Cooking with Blueberries
Fourth Week: A Visit to Aquascapes; Thai Style Chicken in Lotus Leaf Wrap
First Week: The Turtle Came Back
Second Week: Janet's Victorious Vegetable Garden; Exciting Turtle Rescue; Natural Palettes, Inspiration from Plant-Based Color, a book review
Third Week: Janet's Victorious Vegetable Garden, Redux
Fourth Week: Janet's Victorious Vegetable Garden Keeps On Growing; Flowers Around Town in June
Fourth Week: Beyond the North Wind, Russia in Recipes and Lore, a book review; Flowers Around Town in May
First Week: Growing Greens on a Windowsill in the Days of Covid-19; Starting to Sprout: Mung Beans; Starting to Sprout: Rainbow Sprinkles Microgreens
Second Week: Making Chili
Fourth Week: A Year at Brandywine Cottage, a book review; Flowers Around Town in April
with multiple updates Hope for the Best: Prepping for Covid-19
Third Week: Public Gardens to Visit in the Days of Covid-19
Fourth Week: Kokedama and Marimo; Flowers Around Town in March; A History of Zinnias, a book review
First Week: Superbowl Sunday Barbecue at the Quakertown Fire Company: Orchid Modern: Living & Designing with the World's Most Elegant Houseplants, a book review
Second Week: Orchid Show at The New York Botanical Garden
Fourth Week: Making Maple Syrup at the Howell Living History Farm; Raptors at the Wildlife Art Gallery; Hope for the Best: Prepping for Covid-19 with updates; Tropical Fruits
Third Week: Barbecue at the Quakertown Fire Company
Third Week: Water in Winter
Fourth Week: The Complete Book of Ferns, a book review
First Week: Gingerbread Houses at the Hunterdon County, NJ Library
Second Week: Christmas On the Howell Living History Farm; A Dutch Christmas at Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum
Third Week: The Ultimate Instant Pot® Cookbook for Two, a book review
Fourth Week: Moss: Discover. Gather. Grow, a book review
First Week: About Buckwheat, A Program at Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum; Winterizing Bananas
Second Week: Cheese Festival at ShopRite; Late Autumn Harvest
Third Week: Coming Attraction: Holiday Train Show at The New York Botanical Garden; Japanese Pickled Vegetables, a book review
Fourth Week: All Aboard for the Holiday Train Show at The New York Botanical Garden; Logging with Horses at the Howell Living History Farm
First Week: Summer's End, Garden Harvest
Third Week: Nature Into Art, The Gardens of Wave Hill, a book review
First Week: Riverfest at Frenchtown; Tu Casa Mi Casa, a book review
Second Week: Sheep and Things at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Festival; Beer, Tea and Todies at the Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum; A Brief Visit to Hay Honey Farm; An Afternoon at Willowwood Arboretum; Garden Conservancy Open Days - A Visit to Ellistan; Garden Conservancy Open Days - A Visit to Jardin de Buis, Strolling Around Outside; Garden Conservancy Open Days - A Visit to Jardin de Buis, Enjoying the Indoors; Garden Conservancy Open Days - A Visit to Bird Haven Farm
Third Week: Saga of the Nesting Box Turtle
Fourth Week: First Day of Autumn; Tohickon Garden Club Goes to the New York Botanical Garden; Talk and Tea at the Cross Estate Gardens; Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, a book review
First Week: Superhydrophobic. It Means Never Wet.
Second Week: Fordhook Farm, A Garden Conservancy's Open Days Visit; Kitchen Garden at Fordhook Farm, A Garden Conservancy Open Days Visit; Potato Harvest Events at Howell Living History Farm
Third Week: Another Visit to An Exemplary Vegetable Garden
Fourth Week: The Gardener's Book of Color, a book review; Plowing Match at the Howell Living History Farm
First Week: Peace Valley Plein Air Watercolorists
Second Week: God Bless The Grass
Third Week: An Exemplary Vegetable Garden
Fourth Week: Grow Great Vegetables in New Jersey, Grow Great Vegetables in Pennsylvania, a book review; Bananas Love Summer; Sarracenia at Aquascapes Nursery; Other Water Plants at Aquascapes Unlimited Nursery
First Week: Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx; The Art of Roberto Burle Marx, and Miscellany at the New York Botanical Garden
Second Week: Perennial Extravaganza at Linden Hill Gardens; Five Vermont Gardens
Third Week: Designed for Nature: Six Gardens
Fourth Week: Blooms: Contemporary Floral Design, a book review
Fourth Week: A Visit to Skylands Manor and the New Jersey Botanical Garden; A Visit to Ringwood Manor
Fifth Week: The Architecture of Trees, a book review
First Week: Made for the Shade, keynote lecture at the 2019 Gardener's Day; Hellebore Festival at Linden Hill Gardens; Hellebore Planting and Care
Fourth Week: Barbecue Rules, a book review plus Perfect Homemade Ice Cream, a book review
A Visit to Sedona, Arizona Cacti in the Red Rock Country of Sedona, Arizona; A Visit to Arcosanti in Arizona; Arizona Pueblo Visits; A Visit to Tlaquepaque; Arizona Omnium Gatherum