8-23-25 VERMONT: We go back to NJ next week and are starting to close up. However, Alison and Dan are using the house for a friend’s, Dru’s, wedding breakfast on Labor Day weekend. Then we will be back for my reunion the end of September. That’s when all the outdoor stuff gets put away, except for the stuff that stays out all winter.
I’ve been busy doing outside chores, filling holes that the dogs have created, watering dry plants, and planting a few new things. I put another blue lobelia, L. siphilitica, in the lobelia bed we started on the pond bank in July, a phlox, P. paniculata, Fancy Girl, in the phlox bed by the French doors, and a gas plant, Dictamnis alba, on the pond bank near the Japanese maple. The gas plant was a gift from neighbor Valerie, who has magnificent gardens. It is not a good idea to plant during the drought, especially late in the season, but with watering they will be okay for next year, I hope.
We went to dinner at Cloudland Farm with Valerie and Fred, it was great as usual. Yesterday we went to Barnard to hear neighbor Steve’s band, Blind Squirrel, play for the Barnard Street Dance. Barnard is pretty little town with a beautiful, big lake with ducks and geese. I guess it’s a suburb of Bethel.
Today I put up a new gate for the pasture road access. I had major help from Steve and Diana and from Tina’s friend Tasso. It took a couple hours and needed a new post to close the gap.
New blooms: tree hydrangea, dentate ligularia.
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