Groton Farmers’ Market Exciting news (well, to me!) – we’ll be vending at the Groton Farmers Market opening day this Fri, July 11th! We had to get approved by the town to vend here, so I’m very happy that we did, and I’m hoping it will be a positive experience. The market is from 3-7pm at the Williams Barn property (160 Chicopee Row) in Groton, MA. The Facebook event is here, and if you’re a Facebook user and would like to attend, I’d appreciate you marking yourself as “Interested.

We’ll be at the Leominster MA Farmers’ Market this Saturday, July 5th, 2025, from 11am to 2pm, in Monument Square, Leominster, MA. We’ll have several lovely annuals and biennials in bloom – all of which are new-this-year species for us! This includes: Pale corydalis (Corydalis sempervirens; biennial 1st year). This biennial offers delicate pale green foliage and small colorful pink and yellow flowers. Redwhisker Clammyweed (Polanisia dodecandra; annual). A great name for an interesting plant!

Hello, friends of native plants! – including a warm welcome to those who signed up for the newsletter at the Davis Square or Newton markets in June. Today we have some exciting news about our market schedule for the 2025 season. Lunenburg Artisan Market Update Sun Jun 22: Sadly, due to thunderstorms and the extreme heat/humidity watch – as well as most of the other vendors backing out – we are canceling our attendance today.

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.

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.