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Current Issue of The Fringed Gentian™
Summer 2019
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Garden Plant of the Week
Selected from the many species in, or historical to, the Garden.
Shrubby Cinquefoil
Dasiphora fruticosa
Link on name goes to more information and photos of this plant.
Our Tamaracks
Eloise Butler chose the site of the Garden because it was a Tamarack Swamp. The tree and history.
A Seasonal Poem
It sifts from Leaden Sieves —
It powders all the Wood.
It fills with Alabaster Wool
The Wrinkles of the Road —
It makes an Even Face
Of Mountain, and of Plain —
Unbroken Forehead from the East
Unto the East again —
Taken from It sifts from leaden sieves by
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Reflections
"The Great Horned Owl is busy having a family again. This may seem like a strange time to be sitting on a clutch of eggs but it is the time that the Great Horned Owl picks. I would think it would be a little uncomfortable, and I must say when I saw her half covered with snow she didn’t have a terribly happy expression on her face’ but she has no one to blame but herself. This is the third year in a row that we have been aware of the owl nesting in the area."
Garden Curator Ken Avery, Winter 1975
Garden theme items for sale
Downloadable PDF format books.
1907-1933. Companion book to The Wild Gardener
Martha Crone and the Wild Flower Garden
1933-1958. Companion book to the Crone History
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