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Give the gift of health, wellness and nature on Giving Tuesday, November 30th, through a donation to the Heronswood Garden. 100% of your donation will support Heronswood’s dynamic programs and activities that have brought and continue to bring hope, healing and enrichment to so many during the pandemic. Your gift helps to keep Heronswood open, growing and thriving. Donate on our webpage: Give the gift of health, wellness, and nature on GIVING TUESDAY, November 30th, through a donation to Heronswood Garden. 100% of your donation will support Heronswood's dynamic programs and activities that have brought and continue to bring hope, healing and enrichment to so many during the pandemic. Your gift helps to keep Heronswood open, growing, and thriving. Donate on our webpage: heronswoodgarden.org/donate/ THANK YOU for YOUR SUPPORT!
Choosing trees, shrubs and vines for smaller gardens is difficult. With limited space, there’s only room for a few, so they need to really earn their place. This Wednesday, plantsman Dan Hinkley will discuss his top choices in an online webinar. Visit our Events Calendar for tickets heronswood.odoo.com/event Here’s a few of my suggestions…
A selection of some of the remarkable plants collected by our Director Emeritus Daniel Hinkley in Vietnam over 20 years of expeditions. Join him Saturday 27th as he recounts his exploration of this fascinating country in a Zoom webinar. For tickets, visit the Heronswood events calendar heronswood.odoo.com/event
Eucryphia glutinosa is undoubtedly beautiful in flower, but it’s fall color is also pretty good. It’s the only deciduous eucryphia and ours is the dwarf form ‘Snowball’ #eucryphia
Heronswood collects all members of the Hydrangea family (Hydrangeaceae), but this one, alas, will never grace our garden. Endemic to Hawaii, it is too tender for cultivation here ☹️Hawaiian name: Kanawao (Akiahala)
Heronswood‘s volunteers are an awesome crew! Today, they helped us protect our young tree ferns from winter cold. We tie up the fronds with string, wrap a cage of chicken wire around the trunk, then fill this with woodchips. With over 30 ferns, it’s a big task, made better by their great enthusiasm. Thanks everyone!
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We always try to protect our bananas before Thanksgiving, and we’ve just finished the process. They are fully hardy, but cold weather can kill the stems resulting in much shorter plants. We wrap the stems in a wire cage, fill it with straw and fallen leaves, then stretch a tarp over the top, ensuring it is peaked to allow drainage
Whose bright idea was it to plant bulbs? We’ve added 2,000 tulip and daffodil bulbs to the Potager’s inner beds, so make sure to visit next spring and see if our efforts were worthwhile
This pond has been dry for a long time, but plenty of water now! After considerable rainfall over the past few weeks, and more to come, Heronswood’s water features are back, providing homes for plants and wildlife
