New Hampshire Garden Solutions

Two or three posts ago I visited an old back road in Swanzey on a rainy day, complaining that the day was so dark I couldn’t see any of the tree colors that I knew were there.

Last week, two mornings in a row as the sun came up I saw neighboring houses with white roofs, a sure sign of frost.

The last time I brought you here to walk along the Ashuelot River we were looking for those beautiful closed gentians, but this time we’re leaf peeping.

Saturday it rained, Sunday it rained, and Monday it rained, all thanks to a strange September nor’easter that hit many places much harder than it did here.

I thought in this post I’d show how beautiful some of the more common plants can be in the fall.

Usually when school starts I start thinking about the gentians that grow along the river, so last week off I went to see if they were blooming.

This week I thought I’d go up to the Beaver Brook Natural Area to see if the blue stemmed goldenrods were blooming.

I once again went to a local pond to see how a few of the plants that live there were coming along.

Last week I went into the forest on Mount Caesar in Swanzey, which is something I haven’t done for a while.

Last week I went looking for more mushrooms.

I thought I’d start this post with a few plants that many people walk right by without noticing them.

Last Saturday started out to be a beautiful day so I went up to Beaver Brook Natural area.

I was happy to see that the cedar waxwings had returned to the stretch of the Ashuelot River I visit frequently.

The goldenrod is blooming and that means the beginning of a time of transition.

On a whim last Saturday I went up to the deep cut rail trail in Westmoreland.

Like the rest of the country, and the world I suppose, we’ve had about a week of very hot temperatures.

A week or two ago I made an aborted attempt at following the trail along the Ashuelot River.