Boston Flower & Garden Show: Nurtured by Nature

  It is true that we have been treated to a winter without too much snow cover, but it still feels pretty amazing to walk into a huge space filled with flowers. Nature, even indoors is incredibly nurturing.  A stroll through the Boston Flower & Garden Show is a nice distraction from the grey skies outside….

Tower Hill Botanical Gardens

I recently joined two fabulous photographers for a photo walk at Tower Hill Botanical Gardens in Boylston, MA.  The botanical gardens are just waking up from a long cold winter and the daffodils were in full bloom.  The gardens have two greenhouses on site L’Orangerie and the Limonaia House.  My photography companions were. Alison Borrelli and…

Feeling Green: Gardening with Starbucks

Whether you’re a daily Venti Americano drinker or an occasion shaken Passion ‘Tea-totaller’, love or hate Starbucks, they’ve got something your garden likes and they give it away too. Starbucks has wonderful bags of grounds for you to pick up and add as a brown layer to your compost or to sprinkle around your hydrangeas…

Mamadou’s & Winston’s Flowers

So what’s new? Mamadou’s Artisan Bakery is now open in Winchester.  Mamadou’s has been at the farmer’s market in Arlington.  Mamadou is from Senegal and is now offering artisan bread all year at their Winchester Bakery on 63 Swanton Street  They are open Tuesday through Sunday, 10am – 6pm. Winston isn’t just Flowers anymore.  Winston Flowers now has…