More from Barb’s garden in Massachusetts

We must have been pretty convincing in our plea for more photograph of Barb May ’s Massachusetts garden yesterday , because she quickly e-mail more ! Here they are , and it just stay fresh get better .

In case you escape it , here ’s what she sound out yesterday:“I dwell in western Massachusetts in the Berkshires . I have live in this firm for 30 years . We raise four chickens and grass fed beef on about 7 landed estate . The garden have evolve from dead nothing besides the spiny copse and shumac on the site when my husband & I build our planetary house in 1981 to a full recurrent and bush garden backed up by a pool , as well as garden all around my plate and a raise - bed veg garden .

“ I ’ve always enjoy horticulture & had a garden design / installation business for 10 year until I need a knee replacement ( I understand this is a distinctive gardener ’s ill ! ) . I now maintain only my own spot . I ’m a appendage of the Lenox Garden Club , which is a member of the Garden Club of America . I ’ve been the club ’s Garden & House Tour president for many years , and I ’m always on the lookout for beautiful gardens in the domain . ”

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