Friends of the Wild Flower Garden
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Current Issue of The Fringed Gentian™
Spring 2019
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Garden Plant of the Week
Selected from the many species in, or historical to, the Garden.
Drooping Trilium
Trillium flexipes Raf.
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READY FOR YOU!
The new boardwalk section in the wetland at Eloise Butler is now ready for you to walk on. Check it out. It will be dedicated at 3PM on April 26, just before the start of Arbor Day festivities in Wirth Park.
A Seasonal Poem
Not pressing close on crowded ways,
Not shrinking back from any eye,
But calm beneath the open sky,
And slow to meet our curious gaze:
In April’s hour of virgin fame
The bloodroot gives her blossom birth,
And trusts within the kindly earth
The hidden sources of her shame.
Along the teeming meadow-side,
Hard by the river-banks are seen
Her close-veined sheaths of tender green,
With generous frankness opening wide.
Taken from Bloodroot by
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863 - 1953)
Reflections
“I am often asked when one can derive the most benefit or pleasure form a visit to the wild garden. Every week, from April through October, presents new attractions. First are the early spring flowers, appearing a little later than in some other places, on account of the deeper shade in the cup-like depression occupied by the bog. There is an unparalleled display of marsh marigolds, making golden vistas through the tamaracks and surrounding marshes, accompanied by the fragrant white violet and all the other notable flowers then due, indigenous or introduced, from other parts of Minnesota."
Eloise Butler, 1914, from A Letter to Theodore Wirth
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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