Pick a Plant Not Sure What to Add to Your Garden? Consider Old- Fashioned Bleeding Hearts; Hardy, Bright Blue Forget-Me-Nots; or Pink, Yellow or Purple Alliums

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Good morning. I have been awoken every day for the past two weeks by bird song. If you have to get up, at least that is one of the loveliest ways of doing it. The rosy grosbeaks have been warbling up a storm as have the goldfinches and the myriad other little dudes flying about.

I think sometimes we do not appreciate the gifts we have until someone points them out to us. We have a young AmeriCorps volunteer named Michelle staying with us who will be working at the Androscoggin Riverlands in Turner this summer. She gets up each and every morning and takes unfettered joy in the bird song, as well as seeing the trees and flowers and "all the green" as she describes it. Waking up in the back woods of Turner is a new experience for Michelle, who's from a city in Florida; and it seems that a new perspective reminds each of us of the blessings we take for granted.

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Pick a Plant Not Sure What to Add to Your Garden? Consider Old- Fashioned Bleeding Hearts; Hardy, Bright Blue Forget-Me-Nots; or Pink, Yellow or Purple Alliums

I still have a few tender blossoming plants in the greenhouse and each morning a hummingbird goes from window to window, hitting its head ...ouch, trying to get to those blossoms behind the glass. Michelle and I have laughed over its continuing attempts.

While working at the Lilac Festival at McLaughlin Gardens ...

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