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Cheap therapy

by Susan Barnett
June 8, 2020
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Visit Bellefield’s Beatrix Farrand Garden in Hyde Park

Plants are cheap therapy. And they’re even cheaper here in the hills of Delaware County.

My little town has an amazing group of folks who call themselves a garden club. What they are, more accurately, are garden addicts who like to get together once a month, share a potluck dinner, and rave about the host’s gardens.

It is my kind of club.

Last year, the club’s founder, an artist who may be one of the sweetest humans I have ever met, visited to give me some advice on what to do with this lawn-heavy former farm.

She pointed to a small square of grass between the driveway and the garage building.

“That. That needs to be a garden.”

“But it’s shady,” I objected weakly.

“Trust me,” she said. “Keep it small. Don’t get fancy. But every time you come outside, you’ll see it, and it will make you smile.”

I did it. One woman I know was getting rid of a ton of hosta. No charge. There was a roadside stand outside town selling pansies and coleus for a dollar a flat. No lie.

That majestic maple tree that died this year has yielded more wood chips than any one garden can use.

And now I have a garden I didn’t have last year.

My garden club friend was right. It makes me smile every damned day.

Read more installments of Village Voices by Susan Barnett.

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