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What's in bloom now at BelleWood Gardens. BelleWood in Bloom 2020 Last Updated: 11 September 2020
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Seasonal Care of the Garden
The Opinionated Gardener
A Meme of Garden Books
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
First Week: At the Philadelphia Flower Show - Flower Power; At the Philadelphia Flower Show - Art and Arrangements; At the Philadelphia Flower Show - Omnium Gatherum
Third Week: Horticultural Chat Room at Linden Hill Gardens; Shrubs, Discover the Perfect Plant for Every Place in Your Garden, a book review
Fourth Week: Tohickon Garden Club at Linden Hill Gardens
First Week: Polar Vortex; Braised Pork and Beans with update
Third Week: Barley, Another Grain
Fourth Week: Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden; A Taste for Herbs, a book review
First Week: A January Lunch with update; Readying for Winter
Fourth Week: Arranging with Produce, Fruits and Flowers; Atlas of Poetic Botany, a book review
First Week: A Winter Day at Atlock Farm; A Dutch Christmas at Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum
Second Week: Gingerbread Houses at the Hunterdon County Library
Third Week: The Japanese Art of Shinrin Yoku Forest Bathing, a book review; Among Trees, a guided journal for forest bathing, a book review
Fourth Week: A British Kind of Christmas Dinner; For Flowers, Just Add Water - Paperwhite Narcissus; Holiday Decorations
First Week: Apple Day at Howell Living History Farm; Barnyard Livestock at Howell Living History Farm; Traditional Smokehouses
Second Week: Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden; Spider Chrysanthemums at the New York Botanical Garden; Football Mums at the New York Botanical Garden; Autumn at the New York Botanical Garden; Autumn Color at Willowwood Arboretum
Third Week: Jam Session, a book review
Fourth Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; A Visit to Wave Hill
First Week: Foraging for Mushrooms; Apple Picking at Snyder Research Farm; Canning Tomato Sauce
Third Week: A Day of Garden Visits
Fourth Week: Fresh Food for Food Banks; Natural Dyeing with Plants; Flower Color Guide, a book review; Pumpkin Time
First Week: A Visit to Hay Honey Farm
Second Week: Sheep at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Show; Spinners at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Show; Vendors at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Show; Repotting Rhodophiala
Third Week: A Visit to Willowwood Arboretum; Garden Decor at Willowwood Arboretum
Fourth Week: Autumn Abundance at Bamboo Brook; Fungus Fest; A Visit to Meadowbrook Farm; Stylish Succulents, a book review
Second Week: About Corn
Third Week: Just Peachy; Plants and Gardens at Wave Hill; Panna Cotta Cooking Demonstration at Wave Hill
Fourth Week: A Day at the Fair - Livestock; A Day at the Fair - Produce and Poultry; A Day at the Fair - Antique Tractors; Planting Native to Attract Birds to Your Yard, a book review
First Week: Coping with Weeds, Part One
Second Week: Scented Geranium Day at Wave Hill;
Soap Making Workshop at Wave Hill; Lilies and Hydrangeas at Wave Hill; Bellsflower Farm, an Open Days Garden; Garden at Federal Twist, an Open Days Garden
Fourth Week: Fungus Foray at Horseshoe Bend Park; Cornfest at Cervenka Farm; Growing Heirloom Flowers, a book review
First Week: New Jersey Mycological Association Wild Food Foray and Potluck Lunch
Second Week: At Wave Hill: Poppies in the Garden and in the Kitchen; At Wave Hill: Poppy Look-a-Likes; At Wave Hill: Big Trees, Other Plants, Family Fun, and Avifauna
Third Week: Soirée at Colonial Park Rose Garden; Saladish, a book review; Upcoming in July Scented Geranium Day at Wave Hill
First Week: A Visit to Willowwood Arboretum; A Visit to Bamboo Brook Gardens
Second Week: Coming Soon: Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawai'i at the New York Botanical Garden; Tree Work
Third Week: Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawai'i at the New York Botanical Garden, Part One; Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawai'i at the New York Botanical Garden, Part Two; Azaleas and Peonies at the New York Botanical Garden
Fourth Week: Trees of Morris Arboretum; Gardens at the Morris Arboretum; Water in the Landscape at the Morris Arboretum; Gardens at Half Moon, a Garden Conservancy Open Days garden; Paxson Hill Farm, a Garden Conservancy Open Days garden; Design Your Garden, a book review
First Week: Getting Down to It; Is It Spring Yet?
Second Week: Hellebores at Linden Hill Gardens
Third Week: April Rain; Flowering Cherry Trees at Branch Brook Park, Part One; Flowering Cherry Trees at Branch Brook Park, Part Two
Fourth Week: Glorious Shade, a book review
First Week: March Arrives Like a Lion; Cacao at Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum; Wonders of Water at the Philadelphia Flower Show
Third Week: Green (Flowers) for St. Patrick's Day; Green for St. Patrick's Day; Doctor, Dentist, Farrier at Howell Living History Farm; Flowers for Spring; Hyacinths for Nowruz
Fourth Week: Cooking with Cactus at Wave Hill; Succulent Care and Cultivation at Wave Hill; Early Flowers at Wave Hill; Success with Succulents, a book review
Second Week: Mycophagy; The Trees of North America, a book review
Third Week: Winter Kitchen at the Howell Living History Farm; Onion Snow
Fourth Week: Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden
Third Week: What I Had For Lunch
Fourth Week: Garden Renovation, a book review; Mushrooms Matter; Wild Medicine at the New York Botanical Garden; Winter on the River
First Week: Atlock Farm Winter Celebration; Christmas at Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum
Second Week: Gifts for Gardeners: A Calendar, Daily Planner, Garden Journal reviewed
Third Week: Winter Quarter Day; Gingerbread Houses at the Hunterdon County Library
Fourth Week: Christmas Dinner with Three Updates
Second Week: British White Cattle in Autumn
Third Week: Autumn Crafts; Winter Protection for Bananas; Coming Soon - The New York Botanical Garden's Holiday Train Show; Foraging and Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook - book review
Fourth Week: The New York Botanical Garden's Holiday Train Show; Thanksgiving Weekend in Massachusetts
First Week: Apple Picking at Snyder Research Farm
Second Week: Iron Mountain Peaches
Fourth Week: Gardens of the High Line, a book review; A Visit to the Gardens of the High Line; An Autumn Visit to the Fairy House Trail; Back Picking Apples at Snyder Research Farm
First Week: British White Cattle; Dyeing Wool with Native Plants
Second Week: Open Days - Bird Haven Farm; Open Days - Jardin de Buis, Part One: Outside; Open Days - Jardin de Buis, Part Two: Inside; Garden State Sheep Breeders Sheep and Fiber Festival; At Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum - A Traditional Pickle
Third Week: House Jungle: Turn Your Home Into A Plant-Filled Paradise!, a book review
Fourth Week: Howell Living History Farm: Sowing Winter Wheat; Fungus Fest
First Week: Picnic at the Cross Estate Gardens;
Third Week: Fairy Houses: How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk
Saturday, 19 August: A Mushroom Foray Up the Mountain
Saturday, 19 August Fungi Fest in Purgatory
Sunday, 20 August: Black Bear Pass Trail - Signs and Scenery
Sunday, 20 August: Black Bear Pass Trail - alpine plants in bloom
Sunday, 20 August: Purgatory Interlude of Outings and Scenery
Monday, 21 August: A Day in Durango
Monday, 21 August: Honey House Distillery
Thursday, 24 August: Dinner at the Dalton Ranch Golf Club
First Week: A-Tisket, A-Tasket, Looking at Some Baskets
Third Week: Bananas in the Garden; Putting Food By: Sour Cherries; Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers
Fourth Week: Refrigerator Eggplant Pickle; Garden Expo at the Clinton (New Jersey) Library; Making Bird Houses from Gourds; Fairy House Trail in Millburn, New Jersey
First Week: Millersville Native Plants in Landscape Conference: Pre-Conference Dinner
Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference: Evening Social
Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference: Plant Sale
Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference: Demonstrations, and a Cow
Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference: Saturday in Maryland - Kollar Nursery
Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference: Saturday in Maryland - Ladew Gardens
Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference: Saturday in Maryland - Cavano's Perennial Nursery
Third Week: Plant: Exploring the Botanical World, a book review
First Week: Soirée at the Presby Memorial Iris Garden; Making Ice Cream at the Bouman Stickney Museum
Third Week: A Visit to Hay Honey Farm
Fourth Week: Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden, a book review; Country Garden Shed Nursery; Refreshments on the Forest Deck
First Week: An April Garden Party
Third Week: Chihuly Exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden; Part One; Chihuly Exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, Part Two
Fourth Week: Gardenista, a book review;
Garden Writers Region II DuPont Triple Play: A Prologue: Henry Foundation for Botanical Research
Garden Writers Region II DuPont Triple Play: Nemours, the Estate of Alfred I. duPont
Garden Writers Region II DuPont Triple Play: Mt Cuba Center
Garden Writers Region II DuPont Triple Play: Mt Cuba Center - Plant Trials
Garden Writers Region II DuPont Triple Play: Winterthur
Blue Bottle / Green Garden; A Morning at the Scott Arboretum
First Week: The Vegetable Butcher, a book review; Winter Chat Room at Linden Hill Gardens; It's Cold Outside; A Winter Kitchen's Meal at Bouman Stickney
Second Week: It's Coming! The Philadelphia Flower Show; A Visit to the Philadelphia Flower Show
Fourth Week: Consider the Lowly Cabbage; Insulating the Greenhouse
First Week: Winter's Cross Quarter Day
Second Week: February Snow; A Visit to Well Sweep Herb Farm
Third Week: Orchids at the New York Botanical Garden; The Culinary Herbal, a book review
Fourth Week: Garden Flora, a book review
First Week: Winter Event at Atlock Flower Farm; 18th Century Dutch Christmas at the Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum
Second Week: Storing Firewood; Gingerbread Houses at the County Library
Third Week: Mindfulness in the Forest
Fourth Week: Patterns of Nature - Iridescence
First Week: Winterizing Outdoor Bananas; A Visit to Van Nest Hoff-Vannatta Farmstead; Open Hearth Cooking at Bouman Stickney Farmstead: Cooking with Quinces; Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden
Third Week: Logging with Horses at the Howell Living History Farm
First Week: Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden
Second Week: It's Pumpkin Time
Fourth Week: Apple Picking at Snyder Research Farm
First Week: Plowing Match at Howell Living History Farm; Riverfest at Frenchtown
Second Week: Sheep at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Festival; Sheep Herding at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Festival; Fiber Crafts at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Festival
Fourth Week: The Garden at Federal Twist: A Prairie Style Garden
First Week: Blacksmith and Farrier at Howell Living History Farm
Fourth Week: Hydrangea How-To; A Day at the Fair; Arboreal: of or relating to trees
Third Week: Dinner at the Platform; Stink, Stank, Stunk: Corpse Flower at the New York Botanical Garden
Fourth Week: Blueberry Raspberry Jam; Garden Expo in Clinton, New Jersey; Getting Potted; Stink, Stank, Stunk: Corpse Flower at the New York Botanical Garden; Threshing Wheat at Howell Living History Farm
First Week: Keyport Garden Walk
Third Week: Dairy 101; A Garden Visit
First Week: Coming Soon - Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas at the New York Botanical Garden
Second Week: Soiree at Leonard J. Buck Garden; Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas at the New York Botanical Garden; A Caturday with Cats and Kittens
Third Week: An Update On the Kittens
Fourth Week: Making Hay
Second Week: There's Something About the Weather
Third Week: Historic Walnford; Springtime Garden Party
Fourth Week: Making Lumber
First Week: Winter Kitchen at the Howell Living History Farm; Open Hearth Cooking at the Howell Living History Farm; Maple Syrup Making at the Howell Living History Farm; This and That at the Howell Living History Farm; Come Butter Come; Making Cheese at Bouman Stickney Museum
Fourth Week: First Spring
First Week: Putting Food By - Making Sauerkraut; Bouman Stickney Museum - Open Hearth Cooking with Chocolate
Third Week: Water and Cat; Orchidelirium
Fourth Week: Orchidelirium at the New York Botanical Garden
Third Week: In Memoriam, Gerald Barad; A Flying Saucer Bird Feeder
Fourth Week: Nana's Stuffed Cabbage
First Week: Christmas at Howell Farm; A Dutch Christmas at Bouman Stickney Museum
Second Week: Gingerbread at the County Library; A Social Evening at the Roseberry Homestead; The Curious Cat; Ramsayburg Homestead and Environs; Christmas Cactus; Solstice Flowers; Christmas Dinner
First Week: Three-fer On Sunday
Second Week: Sausage, Scrapple, Bacon Making at Howell Living History Farm; Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Logging with Horses at the Howell Living History Farm
Third Week: Beth Baikow's Garden; Ladew Topiary Garden; Ladew Gardens; A Visit to the Van Nest Farmstead; Military Reenactors at the Van Nest Farmstead; Corn Harvest at the Howell Living History Farm
First Week: Plowing Match at the Howell Living History Farm
Second Week: Garden State Sheep Breeders Show
Fourth Week: A Week in Purgatory: Part One; A Week in Purgatory: Mesa Verde, Cliff Dwellings of the Ancient Ones; A Week in Purgatory: All the Wheels Go Round and Round; A Week in Purgatory: Where the Road and the Sky Come Together
Fourth Week: Botanical Art
First Week: Currants and Gooseberries
Third Week: Mill Fleur, The Garden of Barbara Tiffany
First Week: Too Wet or Too Dry: What's Your Preference?
Fourth Week: Oyster Mushrooms; Sour Cherries
First Week:
Great Gardens to Visit in New Jersey - Presby Memorial Iris Garden
Second Week: Casa Azul - Frida Kahlo at the New York Botanical Garden
Fourth Week: Coping with Drought
Fourth Week: Open Days Gardens in New Jersey; Daffodil Woods
Second Week: Preparing for Spring at the Garden at Federal Twist
Third Week: Who Visits BelleWood Gardens?
Fourth Week: Vietnamese Mycophagy; Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden
Fourth Week: January Snow
First Week: Poinsettias at Peace Tree Farm; Gingerbread Houses at the County Library; A Dutch Christmas at the Bouman Stickney Museum
Second Week: Fanciful Gingerbread Houses at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum; The Gleaners
First Week: American Persimmons; Open Hearth Cooking at the Bouman Stickney Museum
Second Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Winterizing My Banana
First Week: The Garden at Federal Twist with November Update; Open Hearth Cooking at the Bouman Stickney Museum
First Week: Another Visit to Snyder Research Farm; Sheep, Fleece, and Fiber Show
First Week: A Visit to Hay Honey Farm
Second Week: A Vegetable Vampire
Third Week: Chicken of the Woods
Fourth Week:A Garden Club Visit to Tassot Apiary; Plowing Match at Howell Living History Farm