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Outrageously ornamental onions

Kristin Green — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:01:15 +0000

Even though the foxgloves have been outstanding in the Rose Garden and the roses and delphinium have begun to show off, I am still being distracted by allium. But then class clowns are usually pretty distracting. — In the best way. Last year we ordered more ornamental onions than we ever had before and planted [...]

June is galore-ious

Kristin Green — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:25:34 +0000

I know I say this every year – and then say it again every week for the rest of the season – but the gardens are prettier than ever. I’m not sure if it’s just that we have been so lucky weather-wise that everything is blooming more exuberantly than ever before or if it’s that [...]

Free bees

Kristin Green — Wed, 29 May 2013 14:24:13 +0000

This past winter was a rough one for honey bees. Word is, across the country about a third of the population didn’t make it though. Blithewold’s beekeeper, Brendan Kennedy lost most of his hives including the two at Blithewold. When he opened our hives for their first spring inspection in April, there was still honey [...]

Multitasking to-dos

Kristin Green — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:47:41 +0000

If it wasn’t for Gail’s lists and ability to prioritize, I’d probably have lost my tiny mind by now. There is so much to do that seems to need doing right-this-minute that without the lists, I’d feel pulled in a gajillion different directions at once. Like I am at home. (Let this be a lesson [...]

Marjorie’s dove tree turns 40

Kristin Green — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:16:18 +0000

It’s a lucky visitor whose gaze turns east along the path between the mansion and the Enclosed Garden, instead of west across the blooming North Garden and Great Lawn to Narragansett Bay. The western view is a compelling one to be sure and even I am caught up short by it every time I walk [...]