SEASONAL NOTES/
WHAT’S BLOOMING
January
perpetual winter
perpetual ice
freezing temperatures
cold chickens
hot woodstove
ski season :)
February
maple syrup season
March
Cornus mas (cornelian cherry)
spring veggie crops germinating
Tree Peonies budding out
Salix melanostachys (black pussy willow)
Crocus sp.
Skunk cabbage emerging
Galanthus
Hammamelis mollis (chinese witch hazel)
Helleborus sp.
April
Corylopsis
Magnolia ‘Elizabeth’
Muscari (grape hyacinth)
Epimedium
Pulmonaria (lungwort) sp.
Vinca minor (myrtle)
Abeliophyllum (white forsythia)
Anemone blanda
Hamamelis mollis finally postpeak
Viburnum bodnatense ‘Pink Dawn’
Magnolia stellata - just breaking
Forsythia
Great Blue Heron is back
Snapping turtles active
first daffodils blooming
Pushkinia
Coltsfoot
Skunk cabbage
Cornus mas
Hellebores
Pansies
turtles are out sunning
peepers are deafening
Viburnum bodnatense ‘Pink Dawn’
Quince
Leucojum
Glaucidium
Violas
May
Allium
Amsonia - a perennial no sunny New England garden
should be without
Peonies
Poppies
Siberian Iris
Roses
annuals and tropicals are in the ground now
Viburnums
Camassia
Trillium
Dodecatheon
Fothergilla
Daphne
Helleborus sp.
Alchemilla (Lady’s Mantle)
Trollius
Cornus kousa
Rhododendron
Calycanthus
Scilla
Syringa (Lilacs)
Deutzia
Galium (sweet woodruff)
June
Filipendula
Aruncus
Persicaria polymorpha
Syringa reticulata
Lavendar
Japanese Iris
Ptelea trifoliata
Saruma henryi
Alchemilla mollis
snapping turtles laying eggs
July
Stewartia
Begonia
tomatoes thriving
catbird activity
frogs
colorado potato beetle damage
Polygonum persica
farm plots - vegetables
Euphorbia maculata (joe pye weed)
Clethra alnifolia (in bud)
Cabbage is heading up
first globe artichokes are ripe
Buddleia (butterfly bush)
Sorbaria
Cephalanthus (buttonbush)
Zizinia aquatica (wild rice) - just starting
Hemerocallis (daylilies)
Filipendula
Cimicifuga (bugbane)
Campanula
Campsis
Alchemilla & Podophyllum (mayapple) looking tired
Aesculus parvilfora (bottlebrush buckeye)
Astrantia
Echinacea (coneflower)
Yucca
Spirea
Verbascum
August
Clethra alnifolia
Lobelia
Lythrum
Typha (cat tail)
Rudbeckia
Hydrangea quercifolia
Ornamental grasses
Mimulus ringens (monkey flower)
dragonflies, butterflies, and hummingbird moths
Rudbeckia
Viburnum berries
Cornus mas fruit
Koelreuteria seed pods
Silphiums
Vernonia
September
Japanese anemones
ornamental grasses
Eupatorium
Viburnum sieboldii
Chelone
Itea virginica
Red-leaved mimosa
Red noodle beans
Bottlehouse gourds
October
Heptacodium micinoides (Seven Son flower)
first frost this month?
harvesting celeriac
Aconitum
Eupatorium rugosum
Anemone
Kousa dogwood fruit
Viburnum fruit
Ilex verticillata berries
Aster tataricus - still
woodpeckers making holes in siding
Kingfisher very active
the baby snapping turtles are emerging from
June’s eggs
Aster tataricus
ornamental grasses
fall foliage color
