Thank you to everyone who attended the Garden Party on June 5th. We enjoyed Mike and Karen Bewsey’s delightful yard, with tours of the garden and tree house, and a lovely luncheon. We look forward to July’s meeting – NOT on July 3rd, but on the 10th, at Bluestone Meadow Lavender Farm. It is always fun to get to travel for our meetings, and we get so many good ideas on how to improve our own gardens.

 

I hope you have taken the opportunity to visit the Sherwood Demonstration Garden this spring, and check out our GCHS niche in the Floriculture building at the Fair. Make sure to drop by our Herb Garden at the Fairgrounds. We keep it tended as a year-round exhibit, and our new Knot Garden is well on its way to being a second showcase for our Herb Society, so stop by when you are in the vicinity. It is one of many ways our Herb Society fulfills its mission of teaching about herbs and showing others how beautiful herbaceous plants can make our gardens.

 

Don’t forget to cut back your herbs this summer for season-long production, and don’t feel like it is too late to plant. I just put some sunflower seeds out this week. I know it will be a long summer, so bright flowers in a couple of months will be welcome. With our weather, we can get in a second crop of so many of our herbs, just remember to give them afternoon shade- both for the herbs and for us gardeners.

 

See you at the Lavender farm!

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Kitty Stewart, President