A simple entrance to a garden filled stuff with stories. (Photo credit: Chris Eirschele)
For eight days this past May, I was in my native Wisconsin to attend a fiction writing retreat. The day before classes began I donned my mantle as “garden writer” and went to visit Bookworm Gardens.
A reminder this garden is first for children. (Photo cre [...]
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Read in a Botanical Garden by Explori...
A simple entrance to a garden filled stuff with stories. (Photo credit: Chris Eirschele)
For eight days this past May, I was in my native Wisconsin to attend a fiction writing retreat. The day before classes began I donned my mantle as “garden writer” and went to visit Bookworm Gardens.
A reminder this garden is first for children. (Photo cre [...]
Late Spring Garden Matured
A giant purple globe of Allium is blooming, early Epimedium is full, and Polygonatum (Solomon’s seal) is going strong. (Photo credit Chris Eirschele)
My dad would say that it takes a good three years for gardens to grow into themselves. To stay gardening is to take one’s time and after each season stand back and observe, and take [...]
Boerner’s Trial Garden Takes Bo...
Colorful rows of possibly new flowering plants in the Trial Garden’s greenhouse at Boerner Botanical Gardens in 2015. (Photo credit Chris Eirschele)
Jessica Cloninger’s enthusiasm for the Trial Garden she manages at Boerner Botanical Gardens was infectious. On the day I first met her in 2015, we went on foot and by golf cart to see the [...]
Fairy Gardens are Small Worlds for Gr...
Boerner Botanical Gardens’ Herb Garden used wattle fencing and chive plants as barriers in creating their Fairy Garden. (Photo credit Chris Eirschele)
While visiting Wisconsin’s Boerner Botanical Gardens in late spring, I found the center planting bed in their Herb Garden had been planted with a Fairy Garden.
Fairy Garden with Herb Plan [...]
Getting Reacquainted with Boerner Bot...
The beloved Garden House serves as a backdrop to many mixed flora plantings. In May, tulips were blooming en masse. (Photo credit Chris Eirschele)
This is the first of a series about Boerner Botanical Gardens. I visit the Gardens each time I am in Wisconsin, but some years I keep my notes to myself. These three posts are a compilation of what [...]
