I live close enough to Philadelphia to be able to attend the famous Philadelphia Flower Show each year. If you haven’t ever been, it is truly spectacular. This year the theme was the national parks and the resulting display gardens were the best I’ve ever seen. Even the herbs seemed better than usual. Echinacea greeted me at the entrance to … Read More

If it’s Tuesday, then I must be in the greenhouse! The regular Saturday work days don’t begin until next Saturday, so I’ve been dashing in on the Tuesday work days to get my seeding done. The first thing I do any day that I come, is to check on the seeds that were sown the previous week. Things are really … Read More

It finally arrived! The day I have been waiting for all winter. The greenhouse at Rutgers Gardens is finally open. Not a lot to do for herbs today, but it was still great to get out, see my fellow volunteers and start getting ready for Spring Flower Fair, our big annual fundraiser. The soil table saw a lot of action … Read More

Rutgers Gardens suffered a great loss today. Rutger, the beloved garden cat, crossed the Rainbow Bridge before dawn this morning. His passing was not unexpected. He had been ailing for the past few months, not surprising for a cat who was more than 20 years old. He was born at Rutgers Gardens and lived there his entire life. The only … Read More