NJ Visit.

6-22-14 SHORT HILLS: The summer solstice has come and gone and the days are now getting shorter—perhaps you hadn’t noticed. The whole northeast is cool and dry. We have had no rain for about a week, and there’s none in the five day forecast.

We came back to NJ to pick up Eoin and Joe for their summer visit from California. We all go back to VT tomorrow, and Val and Lucy will be joining us there.

New blooms: sweetspire, rosebay rhododendron, winterberry holly, hydrangea.


Sweetspire, a nice medium-sized shrub, especially for wet areas.

Rosebay rhododendron, the last of the evergreen, spring bloomers.