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This week at Wellfield, I encountered my old nemesis, the moth species Melitta curcubitae , or squash vine borer (SVB for short). It has...

One of things most people associate with Japanese culture, and Japanese gardens in particular, is the art of bonsai . The word literally...

Have you ever walked the Gardens at Wellfield and seen some plants you couldn’t identify? We always have some of our “plants of interest”...

Did you know you might have an orchid growing in your lawn or flower bed? Orchidaceae is one of the largest plant families on earth along...

As many of you faithful readers know, 2020 at Wellfield Botanic Gardens is being celebrated as 季節 Kisetsu: The Year of the Island Garden...

Historically, this is always a busy week at Wellfield Botanic Gardens, and this year was no exception. While we welcomed members back for...

This is a week of transition in more ways than one here at Wellfield Botanic Gardens. Ahead of our May 22nd reopening, we began Member...

As the weather warms, I become anxious to plant. It is all I can do to wait until the danger of frost passes before planting the flowers...

I must confess, I am a bit of a garden tool nerd. I love to spend time researching tools I have never seen or heard of before, dreaming...

I have a thing for radishes. Some vegetable growers have a thing for tomatoes, and when I say they have a “thing,” I mean they...

Warming weather inspires many minds to the vegetable garden. This week, Wellfield staff direct sowed the first vegetable crops of 2020:...

All the sun we’ve had recently has me chomping at the bit here on Main street, ready to get the hip, non-hipster gardening season off the...

People have been gardening and cultivating the earth beneath our feet for millenia upon millenia; just when this hip, non-hipster...

Akemashite omedetô gozaimasu! Happy New Year to gardeners everywhere. In 2020, Wellfield Botanic Gardens is celebrating the opening of...

There are days, as the executive director of a local not-for-profit, that I find myself overwhelmed by the outpouring of support we...

The large amount of snow we received earlier in the season prompts a reminder blog post from yours truly: your hip, non-hipsta’ gardener....

My parents had a beautiful tri-colored Japanese maple they kept in a pot on their deck for many years, but because of where they lived,...

Up until this week, the cold November nights foreshadowed the wintery cold coming soon to a landscape near you. This week’s foot of...

Well, it is your hip, non-hipster gardener, back with his dry sense of humor, ready to chat it up about another timely topic, the...

If you have not visited Wellfield in the past couple of weeks, you have missed the flurry of activity occurring in our Japanese-themed...