My Garden Journal

by Judith Irven

Welcome to my garden journal, with a potpourri of ideas and inspirations for gardeners everywhere.

I write about topics that interest me personally, both as a dirt-under-the-fingernails gardener and as a practicing landscape designer, including:

– The wider landscape as it inspires my designs,

– Profiles of plants that thrive in my Vermont garden,

– Techniques for growing food and cooking from the garden,

– The magic of the ever-changing seasons of our New England gardens,

– Inspirations gleaned from visiting great gardens, both public and private.

A four-square kitchen garden

Always a vegetable garden Everywhere I have lived I have…

A four square kitchen garden

Raspberries in October

Freshly picked raspberries in October?? Just as the garden is…

Fall raspberries

Rhubarb in October

Yesterday, I was just starting the ritual fall clean up…

Rhubarb in October

Grande Finale

“Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile” William Cullen Bryant (1794…

September flowers in my Vermont garden

Autumn Reflections

‘Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a…

Hay scented ferns

Dancing grasses

Simple gifts Watching the wind ripple through a field of…

The Other Lilacs

This year Shelburne museum celebrated lilac season on May 15,…

Common lilac; Syringa vulgaris

A thorn-less wild rose

A rose without thorns need not be an oxymoron. The…