I don’t think any of us needed reminding that we are in a severe drought, but historic levels of Sahara dust have arrived anyway. The strange effect reminds me of so many odd things like fog in New England to overcast winter days in Ohio. While the Sahara Air Layer (SAL) over us will make […]
Director's Notebook
The Garden continues to Grow
May eleventh was a milestone for the Botanical Garden. On that day, we were able to open the Garden to our members! All of us were so glad to see visitors again and quite a few of you came out that first day.We remain open to Members and their guests from 9:00 am to 1:00 […]
The Secret Garden
The COVID-19 virus has made the botanical garden into a secret garden since the Governor has closed all non-essential businesses. I think we might well consider the Garden to be essential in innumerable ways but here we are. March 23, 2020 was our mandated closing day but we have been active behind the gates. Surprisingly, […]
The Garden Goes to Cuba
It is with great pleasure that I can say the new Travel Club’s trip to Cuba was a great success! We had 24 participants including Sarah Franks of HRTS Travel who planned the trip, Michael Conners who is St. Croix’s well known author/Cuba expert and myself as plant/garden expert. I had visited Cuba in 2018 […]