Maine Gardens and Gardening - Janine Pineo
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What’s fuzzy, an inch long, black on both ends, brown in the middle and crawls across snow in February? Awww, guess. Confused? So was the woolly bear caterpillar. Last Saturday I was … more
I miss green. And greens. As I undertake my annual seed hunt, I find myself drooling excessively over the sheer wonder that is naught but a leaf. But what a leaf. Last year was near … more
Send the kiddies to the root cellar and put on your Grinch pants ’cause it is time once again to lift your voice in joyless refrain for our annual gardening holiday ditty. You and I both … more
In mid-December, the garden beds buried in new snow, it feels good to be planting something. I reach into the wrinkled brown paper bag and pull out five bulbs, each covered with a dark brown … more
Before the Revolutionary War. Before the Mayflower weighed anchor. Before Columbus set sail. Way before the Crusades ended. Even before the Magna Carta. more
They are small and somewhat pathetic, with not even enough to fill 2 tablespoons. But I rejoiced anyway. The lingonberries have fruit this year. more
Life is pointless if you don’t have a romantic plant in your garden. Really. more
I am feeling blighted. Decidedly mildewed. A little wormy. And — not unexpectedly — beset by beetles. Welcome, my friends, to the year of pestilence. more
Sometimes, gardening is a series of happy accidents. How many times have you purchased a plant, not knowing what to expect? You take it home, dig a hole and plant it, uncertain as to what it might … more
BELFAST, Maine — Andrea Whyte and Joan Bennet will open their adjoining gardens for the Belfast Garden Club tour on Friday. more
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