Are you itching to get out in your garden?

My daughter wants to plant a garden and, like most four-year-olds, she wants to do it NOW!

I share her eagerness to get outside and “play in the dirt.” That’s why I’m excited about attending Strange’s Blooming Days this weekend. The Garden will have a booth there – and there will be vendors and demonstrations, even activities for the kids. Even though I’ll be working the booth on Saturday morning, I am hoping I’ll have a chance to look around and maybe even purchase a few plants. (Strange’s is a sponsor of the Garden’s A Million Blooms and a supplier of many of our plants here at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.)

I invite you to come on out and say “hi” to some of the Garden’s staff and volunteers at our booth. Learn more about Blooming Days at Strange’s.

Speaking of the Garden’s volunteers – they are always itching to get out in the Garden. I ran into Mike Hartenberg (pictured above) the other day when the temperatures were warm and there was a hint of spring in the air. Mike has been volunteering on a regular basis now for about two years. He’s a “mostly retired” radiologist who credits his wife (a longtime Garden volunteer) with getting him involved at the Garden. “I really like that at the end of the day, you can look back and see progress,” he says.

What’s your favorite thing about gardening?

Beth Monroe is public relations director at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.

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