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.

The garden emerges

It is early June, and suddenly the garden has become…

Spring snow

Today was one of those fleeting  moments in the garden….

Astilboides leaf decorated with petals from the serviceberry

Vermont Spring

A picture gallery of our garden in early spring…enjoy!! [portfolio_slideshow]

Not-so-wild wildflowers

Shafts of sun streamed through the leafy canopy, highlighting an…

Pinkshell Azalea, Rhododendron vaseyi, at Garden in the Woods

The cusp of spring

A Vermont spring is swift and ephemeral. Spring in Vermont…

Mother's Day 2011

Shads are flowering.

When the shads bloom it means Spring has surely arrived….

Amelanchier in bloom at the side of the road

A host of golden daffodils

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high…

Jack Snipe daffodils