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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 2023
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 2023 Last Updated: 12 February 2023
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: Old Time Base Ball at Howell Living History Farm; Come Butter Come
Third Week: Designed for Nature Garden Tour
Designed for Nature: Garden of Jeff and Mary Jo Buckwalter
Designed for Nature: Garden of Kristin and Jeff Winters
Designed for Nature: Garden of Sarah Goodyear and Cyrus Morgan
Designed for nature: Garden of Susan Talia Delone and Lawrence Kennedy
Designed For Nature: Garden of Kevin and Susan Baker
First Week: The Color Purple
Fourth Week: Memorial Day Parade
First Week: Flowering Cherry Trees at Branch Brook Park
Third Week: Tree Work
Second Week: Superbowl Barbecue at Quakertown Fire Company
Third Week: Biochar; Another Visit to Phillips Farm Stand
Fourth Week: A Visit to the Asian Food Market
Fourth Week: Phillips Farm Stand; Barbecue at the Quakertown Fire Company
First Week: St Nicholas Day at Erwin Stover House: Herbal Honeys online workshop
Second Week: Feeding Backyard Birds, a talk at Kingwood Feed & Mercantile
Second Week: UPCOMING: The Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden
Third Week: Holiday Train Show Opens This Weekend
Fourth Week: Thanksgiving Dinner for Two; This and That at the New York Botanical Garden; Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; GLOW at the New York Botanical Garden
Third Week: A Good Day's Work by Steve and Son Tree Company
Third Week: Greenhouse Roof Replacement
Third Week: No rain. There is a drought.
Fourth Week: Rain Returns and Summer Bulbs Are Happy; Rhodophiala Returns with the Rain
First Week: Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love: African American Garden at the New York Botanical Garden; Dairying at the Howell Living History Farm
Third Week: Designed for Nature Garden Tour
Marcello and Priya Mangano Garden
Ann Boyer and Steve Auslander's Garden
Beverley Rhinesmith and Paul Patent Garden
Fourth Week: The View From Federal Twist, a book review
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; Upcoming in June at Reeves-Reed Arboretum: Cottage Gardens Then and Now
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