Our first market of the season is happening tomorrow, Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025. We’ve teamed up with Grow Native Massachusetts to do another pop-up native plant market at Fitchburg MA’s Earth Day celebration. We’ll be in parking lot of Fitchburg City Hall (730 Main Street) from 2-5pm with a selection of our native plants: Foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis) - quarts at $10 Clustered mountain-mint (Pycnanthemum muticum) - quarts at $10 Sundial lupine (Lupinus perennis) - 1.

Wonder what Native Plant Poetry Month is? See my explanation here. We wrapped up week one of Native Plant Poetry month with three poems from poets past and present on three different native plants! Day 1: “The Blue-Flag in the Bog” The purple-blue flower of Iris versicolor (blue-flag iris). By USFWSmidwest - Blue Flag Iris, Public Domain Our first poem for Native Plant Poetry month was Millay’s “The Blue-Flag in the Bog,” which celebrates the Iris versicolor (blue-flag iris), one of our native irises.

Guess what April is? … no, not my birth month. (Although, good guess!) It’s National Poetry Month AND National Native Plant Month! What better way to celebrate than to feature the work of American/Canadian poets who write about native plants? Details: I’m sticking with the native plants of the northeast US and Canada, because they’re what I know best. This will be a series of social media posts on the Red Trillium Gardens Instagram and Facebook – with echoes on Bluesky.

Happy vernal equinox, native plant friends! From here on out, it’s all downhill (uphill?) until spring and summer – and I couldn’t be happier about that. … I’m less than happy about the fact that my well basically needs to be replaced, though. Currently I have no drinkable water, and on Monday an excavator will probably tear through some of my native plantings 😢 But enough about me! Opening Day Sale!

It’s been a crazy couple of months for me – I’ve had a death in the family and a broken arm! – so my apologies for radio silence. But I haven’t been entirely idle! With help from friends (because: broken arm), I managed to put my 2024 plants to bed (in contact with the ground, covered with heavy duty row cover) and have started winter sowing. This is where we plant seeds outdoors at this time of year to emulate the cold moist conditions many native seeds require to grow.