by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Apr 14, 2022 | Project
Scottish Heather Calluna vulgaris is one of those carefree plants that creates early Spring and Fall beauty. You can imagine the growing conditions this lovely little plant likes by it original home territory – The Scottish Moors. In our area of southwestern...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Apr 8, 2022 | Blog, Local Things to Do
I had visited the gravesite of Orford Township’s original white settlers only once and that was many years ago. Manfred had never been to the site even though he has lived only a few miles down the highway for all of his past 62 years. On an early April afternoon, we...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Oct 26, 2021 | Blog, Garden
The new growth of daffodils peaking out of the soil and the fledgling flowers of the Helleborus unfurling towards the sky are such clichés that I bear much pain to write about them. But while they are overused seasonal metaphors there can be no denying that their...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Oct 10, 2021 | Blog, Garden
The Bittersweet Season of Autumn Is there a more perfect plant than the American Bittersweet (Celastrus scandens) to symbolize autumn? This native North American vine spends the growing season twining its way through branches of trees and shrubs and along fences until...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Oct 6, 2021 | Blog, Project
The Goddess of the Corn This year, I created a Corn Queen in the warm days of early September at our business, Crazy 8 Barn & Garden. I had been mulling this project in my mind for a while. Each year as fall would approach I would search out the...
