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I regret not posting more this past summer. I used Facebook for photos and short commentary, but found it limiting for my purposes. Facebook is fine as a bulletin board, but for serious writing on gardens it is deficient. Some things only a blog can do. Above is the fall border of asters at theContinue reading “Return”

This was photographed today just before our now daily rain started. Once these steps led to a small courtyard behind the Historical Society building. The courtyard has now gone under a smothering blanket of barberries, weeds, and creepers. The steps were cleared of weeds, and white wood asters, heart leaved asters, and the blue stemmedContinue reading “Old Forgotten Steps- Goffstown Historical Society Today”

Years ago at a Perennial Plant Society meeting in Nashville one of the high end local designers gave a talk, and the most memorable thing he said was ” If someone makes fun of you for having orange daylilies in your garden your response to this should be ‘It’s MY garden’. “ This is true.Continue reading “The Daylily Hegemony”

The freest plantings in the Goffstown gardens are the Sunset color gardens along the main porch of the museum and the Wait Station garden on the property line. There are no rules there, no ideologies, no plant politics. No color is forbidden. I do not care if a plant comes from New Boston’s fields orContinue reading “A Dream Garden”

Only one word for this old fashioned daylily that came out of the garden of a beloved coach from Goffstown- Perfection.

I have tried repeatedly to buy this plant from Annie’s Annuals in California, but it is always sold out. It is a tall spike celosia with resplendent ruby splotched leaves and pink flowers. Since I could not find the plants, I opted for seeds, and growing it has been a trial, for New Hampshire makesContinue reading “From Seed-“Cramer’s Amazon” Celosia.”

This is the old Parker Store in Goffstown, New Hampshire. It houses the displays and offices of the Goffstown Historical Society and is on the National Register Of Historical Sites. The Parker Brothers sold dry goods to Goffstown, and over the years additional buildings having nothing to do with anything Parker have landed on theContinue reading “On the Porch”

I have seen photos of large groups of this plant ,but even a close -up of one of the five I have in the Frost Garden is astonishing. From first opening to full bloom its changes are like no coneflower I have ever seen. Its Latin name is Echinacea simulata. Its common – Wavy LeavedContinue reading “A Prairie Coneflower”

Below is the headstone of the lost Mary. Above is rose “Pretty Pink Polly”. Salvia “Roman Red”. Above is Linaria purpurea, a classic cottage garden flower.

Orange comes soon in early summer when orange daylilies cover the verges and fields and the modest dooryards along country roads. The Parker Museum has some orange blooms now. One is the snapdragon “Cool Orange”, which we planted in front of the wishing well planter with its new antique rusted handpump. The other is aContinue reading “Double Orange”