"I live and love as seasons flyI stand within the cosmic sea
And dreadless wait my destiny--
I stand with bird and beast and tree
And all the things unbond and free,
For they and I and all together
Pass on in space and time and weather."
--Liberty Hyde Bailey (Taken from his poem entitled Outlook)
Greetings from the Liberty Hyde Bailey Interpretive Garden Path!
The ferns have started without us! And right they should, for many of us have been vacationing and enjoying this fleeting summer season. Wouldn't it be lovely if we simply added a rock boarder around these amazing plants and a path surrounding it?
If you have (or know where to find) large rocks that you would be willing to donate to this project, please drop them off under our sign and we will build a beautiful rock boarder for this amazing fern haven beneath the trees.
Curriculum work is underway! We had an initial meeting for anyone interested in working on curriculum last week. Seven of us brainstormed and developed a loosely organized, brilliant (if we do say so ourselves) plan. The goal will be to develop notebooks for each teacher that suggest garden path learning activities, sorted by seasons. We're talking math, science, writing, music, art, social studies, health science . . . If you have ideas to share with us, please join us for our next meeting, August 18th at 10:00 a.m. at North Shore. If you have suggestions, but are unable to attend the meeting, email me at: liberty.hyde.gardens@gmail.com We love suggestions and ideas. . . the more the better!
A special thank you to everyone who donated plants for our Sun Garden. Cindy, from HuntTree, did an awesome job designing this bed of flowers. She is also taking really good care of it. Thanks Cindy!
Carolyn has been caretaker of our blueberry bushes and helped with the flower bed. Thanks D~!
Our Edible Wild Plant Garden was taken over by a vast array of weeds (as you can see by the picture below)! I turned my back for a few weeks (as I headed into the mountains and to a family reunion) only to find our beautiful dandelions were overtaken by weeds! After a few hours of weeding the other day we are back to dandelions! It's an interesting feeling to be pulling weeds and hunting for our precious dandelions. It felt somehow very satisfying to be saving a plant that has so often been treated with such disdain. I went back today and fertilized them. I hope to mulch them in the days ahead to protect them from further invasions. I feel like I've made a new friend out of an old enemy.
This is a community project. We want your voice to make these gardens blossom for the students of South Haven. Join us as we venture into our backyard and discover, learn and grow!
Peace, Becky Linstrom
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