These photos were taken on May 20th at Project Bloom’s gardens at Brookwood Hall, in East Islip. The vegetable beds are nearly completed and most are planted for the season. We’ve added a Kid’s Garden and a fun fence from reclaimed wood. Once the vegetable garden is done, our focus will be the memorial garden. We will continue to meet throughout the summer on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings at 9:30 to plant perennials and to maintain our new garden beds.
Alyssum, snaps and geraniums fill in around the daffodils along the vegetable garden fence
Autumn Joy sedum and daffodils along the south fence.
Daffodils from White Flower Farms were fantastic. Huge blooms for many weeks
The daffs a few weeks ago when they were in full bloom.
3 women from Levi Stauss came and donated their time and energy to help us with the garden cleanup. Special thanks to Keri, Heather and Candace for all their hard work!
Greenhouse plants have been sorted for pickup by the KIC Groups.
Field of Poppies blooms alongside the greenhouse.
New Kid's Garden in the corner of Vegetable Garden. Surrounded by sunflowers, with lettuce, peppers tomatoes and a tower with cukes and a base of thyme. Just need to close the escape hatch in the fence!!
The spirea hedge is in full bloom, with alyssum, marigolds and iris planted below.
Geraniums and allysum bloom along the fence
Vegetable beds have been planted for the season.
Still a lot of weeds to contend with in the open area of the garden. Nearly all the beds are built and in place.
Fence around the vegetable garden is falling apart. We are hoping to get a new fence this season.
Bright Lights cosmos are interesting shades of yellow and orange, instead of the usual whites and pinks.
Brick edge around the memorial garden was completed by the women from Levi Strauss. We have solomon's seal, coleus and hostas to plant in this area.
Entrance to the memorial garden will have two formal beds in front and sweeping shade lovers behind those 2 beds.
Bob made a fence out of branches from our yard. Curly willow and Threadleaf cypress. The new Forsythia hedge is just visible in front of the compost pile.
Curly Willow fence is in front of a "meadow" of cosmos and sunflowers and is planted below with Violet Queen alyssum.
Alyssum beneath the fence. I want to add some morning glories. There are some in a vegetable bed that need to be weeded....
Cosmos and Sunflowers seeds were planted to fill this bed. A few plants were tucked in to get this meadow started!!