Tag: Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia pensylvanica)
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Edible Gardening, Ferncliff, Ferns, Fiddleheads, Foraging, Freezing, Freezing Produce
Fiddle Dee Dee: Ostrich Fern Harvest
Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) in the Secret Garden Hoo Wee! It’s fiddlehead season again in Southern Vermont, and don’t you blink or you’ll miss it. Normally just two weeks long, fiddlehead season is particularly short with spring’s late arrival this year. So when I noticed bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), and troutlily (Erythronium americanum), beginning to bloom […]
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June Gardens, Aflutter & Aglow . . .
Luminous Swallowtail on Blooming, Climbing Hydrangea (Hydrangea anomala ssp. petiolaris). Cluster-Flowers are Butterfly Favorites. Learn More About Attracting Butterflies & Other Pollinators to Your Garden Here. It feels like we were just toasting the Summer Solstice when suddenly, Â it’s the last weekend of June. But that’s Summer for you, isn’t it? She just grabs you […]
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Secret Garden at Ferncliff, Secret Garden Room, Secret Gardens, shrubs, stonework, Studio Garden
Slip Beyond the Misty Walls & Linger Within My Secret Garden…
Weigela florida ‘Red Prince’ Tumbling Over the Secret Garden Wall. Stonework by Vermont Artist Dan Snow. Read More About W. florida  by Clicking Here. It’s mid-June —showtime for some of the season’s prettiest perennials, flowering trees and shrubs— and the garden is always dressed to the nines. Even within the shady depths of my Secret Garden […]
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Paths and Walkways, Perennials for Spring, scree gardens, Secret Garden at Ferncliff, Secret Garden Room, Secret Gardens, Spring Blooming Bulbs, Spring Ephemerals, Spring Flowering Bulbs, Steps and Stairs - Stone, Stone Walkways, The Seasons
Musings on the Merry Month of May…
The Secret Garden Steps and Path, Yesterday Evening (Blooming Here and Below: Phlox divaricata ‘Clouds of Perfume’, Muscari armeniacum, Ajuga reptans ‘Purple Brocade’, Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Carol Mackie’, Fothergilla major ‘Mt Airy’, Viburnum lantana ‘Variegatum’, in a Sea of Emerging Wildflowers) It’s a rainy Monday morning in May, and I’m at my desk catching up […]
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