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Looking Ahead | A Note from Rick Bogusch
If June is the month for roses, then it’s July for just about everything else. Bridge Gardens is in bloom! Look for hydrangeas and acanthus in the borders near the Garden House and don’t miss the water lilies in the pool. The Herb Garden is full of colorful displays, even though foxgloves, poppies and valerian have been cut back or removed. Marguerite daisies, elecampane, bouncing Bette, ‘African Blue’ basil, coneflowers, oregano, thyme, among many others are at peak now and will be for the next couple weeks. Plus, there’s more to come. Basils, epazote, ginger and turmeric have been newly planted in the Culinary Bed, along with sunflowers, zinnias, marigolds and red-leaved cotton in the Textile and Dye Bed.
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In the Vegetable Garden, we are still some weeks away from savoring our favorite summer fruits, tomatoes, peppers and egg plants, but in the meantime, we can enjoy harvests of onions, kale, beets, lettuce and more. Some Community Gardeners are harvesting a bounty of cipollini and red tropea onions, in addition to a surprisingly abundant crop of artichokes.
Elsewhere in Bridge Gardens, you may seek out and enjoy butterfly weed, swamp milkweed, common milkweed and whorled milkweed, as well as summer sweet and Clematis virginiana, the native Clematis known as virgin’s bower. And please help yourself to this year’s crop of currants, raspberries and blackberries.
We’ve been enjoying all our young visitors from the Bridgehampton Child Care Center, the Children’s Museum, Shine and the Bridgehampton Library and look forward to their visits throughout the summer. We also look forward to your visits and hope to see you soon.
Happy Gardening!
