Garden Diary
This is where you can read all about my garden. It is updated on an irregular basis but is always guaranteed to be of interest. Please note that all photos are the property of BelleWood Gardens. These images are not available for reuse either electronically or in print without written permission from Judy Glattstein.
- Creek Road Crafts
- BelleWood in Bloom 2008
Last Updated: 15 July 2008
- BelleWood in Bloom 2007
- BelleWood in Bloom 2006
- A Meme of Garden Books
Last Updated:8 June 2006
- The Opinionated Gardener
Last Updated: 15 June 2006
- Puerto Rico
July 6th through 13th, 2006
- Garden Writers' Get-Together in Philadelphia
August 25th through 30th, 2006
- A Week on North Carolina's Crystal Coast
August 26 through September 2, 2007
- PPA in Philadelphia
July 21st through 27th, 2008
Street Scapes; John Bartram and His Garden; A Center City Community Garden; Chanticleer; In the Wet at Chanticleer; Have a Seat at Chanticleer; PPA Media Award; Conard-Pyle's Perennial Plants; Longwood Gardens in the Rain; Water Plants at Longwood Gardens; Mystical, Magical Bus Tour; Handmade Gardens; WynEden; Frog Hollow
- July 2008
First Week: Knit On Wednesday; Bat Pups UPDATED
Second Week: Carousel Farm Lavender; At Carousel Farm; Making a Lavender Bottle
Third Week: My Banana Is In Bloom
PPA in Philadelphia: Street Scapes; John Bartram and His Garden; A Center City Community Garden; Chanticleer; In the Wet at Chanticleer; Have a Seat at Chanticleer; PPA Media Award; Conard-Pyle's Perennial Plants; Longwood Gardens in the Rain; Water Plants at Longwood Gardens; Mystical, Magical Bus Tour; Handmade Gardens; WynEden; Frog Hollow
- June 2008
First Week: Grounds for Sculpture: Pattern Play, Mannequins, Water; Watnong Soirée
Second Week: In the Bamboo Jungle; A Bounty of Bulbs
Third Week: Atlock: Plants, People, Pets, and More; Getting Potted: Options at Atlock; Elderflower Cordial; Solstice Festivities
Fourth Week: Locavore: At the Dvoor Farm Farmers Market; Locavore: At Nagy's Orchard
- May 2008
First Week: Hooters; Down South; Wisteria at Van Vleck; At Van Vleck
Second Week: Darwin's Garden, Revisited; The New York Botanical Garden, Redux; Die Fledermaus
Third Week: Getting Potted; Moore in America: Monumental Sculpture at the New York Botanical Garden
Fourth Week: A Rainbow of Iris [Sunny Iris; Iris Blues; Pretty in Pink; Iris Fancies; Siberian and Other Beardless Iris]
- April 2008
First Week: Daffodil Days
Second Week: Another Visit to Buck Gardens; A Visit to Natirar; A Visit to Willowwood
Fourth Week: Darwin's Garden; Tulip Time; Trees in Lavish Bloom; Plant Sale at Buck Gardens; Yet Another Visit to Buck Gardens; Rain, Lovely Rain; Leftovers for Lunch; Nettle Soup
- March 2008
First Week: Philadelphia Flower Show: Part One - Jazz It Up; Part Two - Del Valley Chapter NARGS; Part Three - Jacques Armand Bulb Company; Part Four - Horticulture Competitions; Part Five - Look and Learn; Part Six - Stuff For Sale; After the Rain; Springfest; Leonard J. Buck Gardens
Second Week: After The Show Is Over
Fourth Week: Bountiful Bouquets
- February 2008
Second Week: Flowers and Ice
Third Week: New Jersey Flower and Garden Show; Lambing Season
Fourth Week: It's Still Winter; Trash to Treasures
- January 2008
First Week: Corsage for Clerodendron; Wild Geese; House of Coffee; Houseplant How-To
Second Week: A Change in the Weather; Who Needs a Mouse?
Third Week: A Gathering of Grackles
Fourth Week: Forcing Spring; Bought a Bouquet
- December 2007
First Week: Lights, Camera, Action; Gingerbread Wonderland
Second Week: Winter Greens
Fourth Week: Boxing Day at The Ship Inn
- November 2007
First Week: Winterizing the Greenhouse; Sunday Brunch; Kiku, Rejuvenated; Building the Garden Railroads
Second Week: A Class On the Japanese-Inspired Garden; Systema Naturae
Third Week: Tower Hill Botanic Garden; Honey Pot Hill Apple Farm
Fourth Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Gingerbread Adventure at the New York Botanical Garden; Autumn Afternoon at Wave Hill
- October 2007
First Week: Farmers Market at Dvoor Farm; Harvest Festival at Jockey Hollow; Lepidoptera Art
Second Week: Pumpkins and Scarecrows; At the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Third Week: Viewed by the Camera
Fourth Week: Potting Bulbs for Forcing; Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden; Bulb Basics; The Frost Was On The Pumpkins
- September 2007
Second Week: When Will the First Frost Come? UPDATE; A Visit to Trauger's Farm Market; Outside to Indoors
Third Week: Daisy, Daisy; Fashion in Bloom
Fourth Week: Vendange at Alba Vineyard; A Visit to Meadowbrook Farm; Wave Hill in Autumn; Daisy, Daisy at Wave Hill; Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden
- August 2007
First Week: Tri-State Hosta Society Meeting in Connecticut
Second Week: Luxuriously Planted Containers; Jersey Fresh
Third Week: Berry, Berry; After the Storm; Summer Picnic in Parsippany; Prepare for the Flower Show
Fourth Week: High Style Chrysanthemums; Shitakes / Silver Lining; A Week on North Carolina's Crystal Coast
- July 2007
First Week: Garden Party for Nadia; Blueberry Summer
Second Week: Honey, Honeybees; Carousel Farm Lavender Fields Forever; Teenage Turtle; 3 Gardens + 1
Third Week: Back at Carousel Farm for More Lavender; A Visit to Solebury Orchards
Fourth Week: Haying: A Visit to the Tinicum Herb Barn
- June 2007
First Week: Long Tail Salamander; Assembly Line Plant Stands
Third Week: Community Farmers Market at Dvoor Farm; Garden Party at Atlock Farm; Evening Soirée at Willowwood
Fourth Week: Morning Light; Second Dvoor Farm Farmers Market; A Bus Tour to Wave Hill; Tuteurs at Wave Hill; Thoreau-Inspired Art at at Wave Hill; Water Barrels
- May 2007
Second Week: A Garden Near Baltimore, Maryland; Another Garden Near Baltimore, Maryland; Rutgers Gardens Spring Plant Sale
Third Week: Consider the Leaf; Herbs for Sale; Black Vultures
Fourth Week: A Hosta Garden in Pennsylvania; A Goody Box from Terra Nova; Turkey Strut; A Visit to Van Vleck; Presby Memorial Iris Garden
- April 2007
First Week: Shades of Green; Coping with Invasive Vines
Second Week: A Sign of Spring
Third Week: Spring? What Spring?
Fourth Week: Wave Hill in Springtime; Art at Wave Hill: Emily Dickinson Rendered; The Auricula Theater at the New York Botanical Garden; Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
- March 2007
First Week: Charlotte, North Carolina: Orchids in the Greenhouse; Through the Garden Gate; Southern Spring Home and Garden Show; Palm Trees in Charlotte; Elizabeth Lawrence's Garden
Second Week: Cloning a Pelargonium
Third Week: It's Still Winter UPDATE; Preview of Spring; Once Upon A Time, Long Ago and In Another Country; Tree Shadow
Fourth Week: Birthday Cake; Knit on Wednesday
- February 2007
First Week: Real Wood
Third Week: Real Winter
Fourth Week: Coming Up This Weekend; Recycled Into An Endangered Species
- January 2007
First Week: New Year's Day; Yeast
Second Week: January's Flowers; Spring Flowers in the Winter House: Awakening; Streptocarpella saxorum
Third Week: Seasonal Weather; What Do You Call a Collection of Geese?; Yeast II: Rye Bread
Fourth Week: Frost; Picking Lemons
- December 2006
First Week: Gingerbread; Atlock's Annual Holiday Open House; Pretty Pony; Kudos for Buried Treasures
Second Week: The History of Gingerbread; A Wreath for the Kitchen; Christmas Cat; Gingerbread Adventure; Gingerbread, postscriptum
Third Week: Morning Visitors; All In The Family - Gingerbread; Gingerbread, Redundant; Piebald Deer
Fourth Week: Cozy Cat; Blooming, It's a Struggle; Rushing the Season
- November 2006
First Week: Bringing in the Sheaves; Winterizing the Outdoor Banana
Second Week: It's Called "Fall" For a Reason; Watnong Chapter NARGS Annual / Luncheon Meeting; Buried Treasures
Third Week: Planting Buried Treasures; Botany of a Fruitcake; On Track with the Garden Railroad
Fourth Week: Turkeys on the Run; Treehouse; My New Book Is Here!
- October 2006
First Week: Buried Treasures: Down to the Wire; The Ents; Autumn at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum; A Day at the New York Botanical Garden
Second Week: A Picnic in the Park; Timber! UPDATE; Frost
Third Week: Spring Flowers in the Winter House: Hyacinths, UPDATE; Spring Flowers in the Winter House: Tulips: Spring Flowers in the Winter House: Daffodils; A Window Box of Bulbs
Fourth Week: Wave Hill in Autumn; In BelleWood's Greenhouse
- September 2006
First Week: Another Visit to the New York Botanical Garden; And Another Visit to Wave Hill
Second Week: The Sound of Dragons
Third Week: Seattle Travels: Day One - A Seattle Sampler; Day Two - Ferry to Vashon; Day Three - Farmers Market; Day Three - Garden Visits; Day Four - Kitchen Ware; Day Five - A Garden on the Way to Bellingham; Day Six - Two Gardens in Bellingham; One Last Nursery in Seattle
- August 2006
Third Week: Art in the Garden: Chihuly at the New York Botanical Garden; Garden Improvement - Art at Wave Hill; What's Brewing at The Ship Inn
Fourth Week: Garden Writers' Get-Together: Off to the Conference, and a Visit to the Trade Show; Stormy Weather; Keynote Address; Private Garden Tour in Chadds Ford; Conard-Pyle; A Wilmington Walking Tour; Dining and Dancing at Longwood Gardens; Story Tours / Garden Visits; Fête Champêtre at Chanticleer; Optional Post-Symposium Tour in the Lehigh Valley and Allentown Area; Plant Lovers Discovery Tour: Progressive Women in Horticulture
- July 2006
First Week: Puerto Rico: At the Hotel; Festival de las Flores; At the Botanic Garden; El Yunque; Piñones; Viejo San Juan; Vieques; Along the Boulevards and Back Alleys
Second Week: Hydrangea Day; Flowers at Fordhook Farm
Third Week: Trompet de Mort UPDATE
Fourth Week: Summer, and Everything's Peachy
- June 2006
First Week: Buried Treasures Preview
Second Week: Perennial Annuals; Hydrangeas, and Chemistry in the Garden; Two Garden Visits: First the Barads; Second at the Coutins; Oyster Mushrooms; Zoysia Problems UPDATE
Third Week: Praying / Preying Mantis
Fourth Week: Garden Writers Meeting; Pleasant Run Nursery
- May 2006
First Week: Gardeners at Work; Mare and Foal; Vole Control; Cactus Flowers; Plant Swap at the Silbersteins
Second Week: Teacher, Teacher; Rutgers Gardens Plant Fair
Third Week: Dryad's Saddle; A Meme of Gardening Books
Fourth Week: Hortulus Farms; Memorial Day Parade
- April 2006
First Week: Shading the Greenhouse; The Longevity of Bulbs; Winter's Last Gasp
Second Week: Lawn, Part I; Stink, Stank, Stunk; Lawn, Part II
Third Week:Tulips and Tutu; A Conservatory Show at the New York Botanical Garden
Fourth Week: A Dainty Daffodil; Ruins; Falling Water; Tulips and Topiary; Topiary Update; Garden in the Woods; The Hunt House Inn; Dogtooth Violets
- March 2006
First Week: Return to Wave Hill, Again; Return to Wave Hill - Alpine House; Return to Wave Hill - South African Bulbs in Bloom; Iris danfordiae; At the Philadelphia Flower Show; Another Mini-Preview for the Bulb Exhibition
Second Week: Water, Watering; Spring is Sprung; The Thrill of Victory
Third Week: The Day Before Spring; Kinsman Company
Fourth Week: Greenhouse Bulbs in Bloom
- February 2006
First Week: An Offer Too Good to Refuse!; Mini-Preview for the Bulb Exhibition
Fourth Week: The Birds; Lambing Season
- January 2006
First Week: New Year's Day; Coping with Winter
Second Week: Wave Hill in Winter; Banana in My Bedroom; Mist Asleep
Fourth Week: Return to Wave Hill; Return to Wave Hill: Behind the Scenes in the Conservatory; Return to Wave Hill: In the Conservatory; Look What I Found! Update
- December 2005
First Week: Pastured Chickens; Atlock Flower Farm's Holiday Open House
Second Week: Redouté's Flowers
Third Week: Winter's Solstice; Cozy Kitty; A Flower for Year's End
- November 2005
What's in Bloom in November
First Week: Momijigari; Willowwood and Autumn Colors; Willowwood and Autumn Berries
Third Week: Ginkgo
Fourth Week: Clusius Garden; The New York Botanical Garden's Holiday Train Show
- October 2005
What's in Bloom in October
First Week: Photo Shoot; A Japanese Woodlander; A Bulb Potting Workshop (image update)
Second Week: Weather, and Another Bulb Potting Workshop
Third Week: Horticulture Magazine Lecture Tour: Part One; Horticulture Magazine Lecture Tour: Part Two; There Are Fairies in the Garden
Fourth Week: An Enormous Puffball; Autumn Harvest; Grass, or Not Grass?; Autumn Crocus
- September 2005
What's in Bloom in September
First Week:St. Fiacre; Firewood for Winter; It's a Jungle Out There
Second Week: Focus on Mexico; Hunter / Killer Insect; Little Frog
Third Week: Garden Party; Annual Extravaganza; Shell Beans
Fourth Week: Eastern Performance Trials - Fashion in Bloom; Bananas on the Move
- August 2005
What's in Bloom in August
First Week: Make Sure You Read the Label; A Visit to the New York Botanical Garden; Waterlilies at the New York Botanical Garden
Second Week: Rain; A Day in a Tropical Garden
Third Week: Night Blooming Cereus; Companionship; Magic Lilies
Fourth Week: Garden Club's Garden Visit; A Day in the Garden; Another Day in the Garden
- July 2005
What's in Bloom in July
First Week: The Glorious Fourth; Pollia japonica; Arisaema fargesii
Second Week: Rain Lilies; Beetles and Bugs - August Update
Third Week: Entomophilus; Chanterelles Are Back! - August Update; Made for the Shade; Lilies in Bloom; Summer Fruit; Hazy, Crazy, Lazy Days of Summer
Fourth Week: Darkest Heart of Africa; Summer Means It's Time for Corn; Here Comes the Sun(Flowers); PANTS; Flutterby; The 41st Annual Rutgers Gardens Open House
- June 2005
What's in Bloom in June
First Week: Weeds; Book Signing; Both Hands Weeding; How Many Books?; Bananas on the Move; Heirloom Tomatoes - August Update; Hazy, Hot, and Humid
Second Week: Cup Plant; A Visit to Well-Sweep Herb Farm; Rain and the Garden(er); Cannas in the Garden; Omnium Gatherum; Bog Plants
Third Week: A Visit to Wave Hill; A Garden Club Starts to Sprout; The Tropical Look; A Visit to Atlock Farm; More Omnium Gatherum
Fourth Week: Wave Hill Revisited; Arisaema and Other Aroids; A Haul of Hosta; Into the Woods, Out with the Weeds
- May 2005
The Sound of One Hand Weeding --- A Couple of Reviews for Bulbs for Garden Habitats
- April 2005
Artists in BelleWood Garden --- Bulbs for Garden Habitats, My Newest Book --- Heating Mat
- March 2005
Cover Girl --- Snow Cat --- Philadelphia Flower Show
- December 2004
Autumn Leaf Cleanup & Lawn Care --- Wintering Over Banana Plants --- Creating a Drainage Channel
- November 2004
Momijigari, Japanese Autumn Garden Exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden --- Firewood --- Fox
- March 2004
Weeding --- Snowdrops and Other Little Bulbs of Early Spring --- Windowbox of Bulbs
- February 2004
Spring IS On the Way
- January 2004
Wood Ashes and Compost
- December 2003
Consider the Leaf, My Newest Book --- Holiday Garden Railroad Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden --- Winter Foliage
- Fall 2003
Houseplants Return Indoors
- August 2003
Chanterelles --- Beyond Terracotta with Campagnia Planters
- July 2003
Weeds, Again --- BelleWood Gardening School --- Re-Tiring --- Penn Allied Nursery Trade Show
- May 2003
Daffodils --- Weeding --- Plant Swapping
- March & April 2003
Shade for the Greenhouse --- Daffodils --- Plants Along Magnolia Way
- February 2003
Winter Pruning --- What's Blooming in My Greenhouse --- Consider the Leaf
- August 2002
A Visit to Holland: the Floriade, Palais Het Loo, the Bulb District, and More --- Rain Barrels
- May 2002
Drought --- New Shrubs --- Rain Barrels --- Bulbs for Damp Sites --- Fake Bamboo Fence
- February 2002
The Garden Awakens
- January 2002
Decorating Holiday / Solstice Trees
- November 2001
Cyclamen Society
- October 2001
Proctecting the Garden Bananas
- August 2001
Plants for a Small Shady Border
- July 2001
Weeds, Seeds, and Bulbs
- June 2001
Creating Magnolia Way