Hello native friends! And a very warm welcome to those folks who subscribed our newsletter at the Lunenburg Artisan Market! Next Market Our next market is upon us: Davis Square Farmers Market, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, from noon to 6pm. The street address is 44 Day Street, Somerville MA, and you can read more about the market here. This is a pop-up market hosted by Grow Native Massachusetts, and we’re hoping it will be a lively one!

Opening Day Sale! We’ll be officially open for business this Sunday, May 4th, 2025, at our backyard nursery in Lunenburg, MA. Stop by between 10am and 4pm that day to buy native plants, take a tour, and nerd out about botany! If you’re Facebook active, you can indicate “interested” or “going” on the event page, and that will keep you up to date. Since I’d rather not have internet randos showing up on my doorstep, please email lise@redtrilliumgardens.

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.