Speaking in Manchester, Vermont
By Kathy Purdy
September 12, 2015
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Hello, dear readers! I’ll be speaking on Creating A Cabin Fever Bed this Wednesday, September 16th for the Manchester Garden Club at the Manchester Community Library at 1 pm. Would love to see you there!
If winter starts too early and spring doesn’t come soon enough, if you find yourself pacing indoors and gazing out the window, hoping to see something other than snow, you need to design a garden to view from that window! Tips, techniques, and plants to extend the viewing season, if not the gardening season, in a long winter climate.
Join me as I explain how to develop a Cabin Fever Bed, a part of your yard designed to help combat the winter blues. The only guaranteed cure for cabin fever is the arrival of spring, but there’s a lot you can do to alleviate the symptoms.
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About the Author
Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.
In its own way, frost may be one of the most beautiful things to happen in your garden all year . . . Don’t miss it. Like all true beauty, it is fleeting. It will grace your garden for but a short while this morning. . . . For this moment, embrace frost as the beautiful gift that it is.
~Philip Harnden
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A Gardener’s Guide to Frost: Outwit the Weather and Extend the Spring and Fall Seasons
I remember when you posted this! Now you are sharing with others in VT! Congratulations. I know you will knock their gardening clogs off! I love my new “winter garden” in Florida – just saying. I hope to visit some more new spaces this year. Also look forward to seeing the progress of your cabin fever garden!
Such a brilliant idea, such a wonderful answer to our dread that winter will stay way to long.
What a splendid idea. In fact I think that is what I have been doing in recent years by trying to extend the flowering season.
You’re right, Marie, that’s an essential part of combating cabin fever, and I profile many plants to extend the season at both ends.