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Plant Sale is May 24
It’s spring! The trees are leafing out. The forsythia’s in bloom, and the rhododendrons, and the apple trees are beginning to bud. This can only mean one thing: It’s almost time for the Belfast Garden Club’s Annual Plant Sale! Scheduled for Saturday, May 24 from 9 a.m. until noon at the Belfast Boathouse and Steamboat Landing, the plant sale will feature hundreds of plants donated by BGC members and local plant purveyors. Annuals, perennials, herbs, shrubs, trees: We’ll have them all. The Gardener-to-Gardener table will be back, stocked with useful tools and garden items, including pots (no plastic). This year,…
Anchors
Exuding “the massive / Mysticism of stone, / Which failure cannot cast down / Nor success make proud,” boulders appeared this week in the Belfast post office garden. The foundation of the new planting going on this spring, these boulders will do a lot of work in a small space. They’ll help stabilize the soil and prevent erosion, provide shelter and shade for pollinators, and define the pedestrian path that leads from sidewalk to parking lot. To quote Robinson Jeffers, they will also add a touch of “massive mysticism” to the garden situated at one of the town’s busiest points.
Trees to Grow On
Members of the BGC TWiG and Education committees convened at East Belfast Elementary School this morning to continue the Arbor Day celebration with a group of kindergarten and first-grade students. Three new trees–a tulip tree, a white oak, and a black gum–were purchased by the club to site on the bare and windy hill overlooking the road. The committees prepared the holes and added the trees, then the students shoveled the dirt back in, carefully tamped it down with their right-sized feet, and gave each tree a good soaking. Many of the students remarked that they’d never seen a tree…