Welcome
to Hamlen's
Helping Hand!
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3rd
Newsletter of 2010
Coming
Events:
Hamlen's is supporting the community by hosting the auction
to benefit the Swanton teen center (6/12 - 10AM) and sundaes
on Sunday (6/6 -12PM-4PM) to benefit the Franklin.
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Visit
us at Hamlen’s. Enjoy browsing through our garden
center.
Our
friendly staff will be glad to answer your gardening
questions and help you select just the items you need.
Come and discover wonderful ideas for creating an
inviting and relaxing garden environment inside and
outside your home.
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Color
My World
 The
beauty in a rainbow can be reflected in many places. In
this picture, it’s reflected off the rain in the sky
and in the lake below.
The
arrival of summer provides us new reflective surfaces --
our gardens. The red of our Tomatoes and Roses as they grow
and bloom inspire us to be outdoors. Orange and yellow are
happy, warm and inviting; we see this in our Sunflowers,
Yellow Squash, Trollius, Poppies, and Pumpkins. We can savor
the crisp greens of grass and new leaves after a rain. Blue
is one of the hardest colors to come by in nature. If you
have true blue flowers in your garden treasure them, as
they are unique. Perhaps the blue is a berry peeking through
the leaves of a bush, or the full flower of an Endless Summer
Hydrangea. In the past the color Indigo was extracted from
the Indigo plant to dye clothes; today we can grow Baptisia
in our yards to get that deep blue color. Violets are a
sure sign that spring has arrived and we can see the purple
echoed again later in the season in our Eggplants, and ears
of decorative Indian Corn.
No
matter where we look, if we take the time, the colors of
the rainbow can be seen all over the world, or we can stay
home and simply enjoy them in the comfort of our own back
yards. Our friendly, helpful staff will make it easy for
you to choose the plants mentioned above, as well as show
you many others here in our garden center. We invite you
to visit us at Hamlen’s – we’ll help you
add color to your world, both indoors and out.
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Hamming
It Up
The
real meaning of plant catalog terminology:
- "A
favorite of birds" means to avoid planting
near cars, sidewalks, or clotheslines.
- "Grows
more beautiful each year"
means "Looks like roadkill for the foreseeable future."
- "Zone
5 with protection"
is a variation on the phrase "Russian roulette."
- "May
require support"
means your daughter's engineering degree will finally
pay off.
- "Moisture-loving"
plants are ideal for landscaping all your bogs
and swamps.
- "Carefree"
refers more to the plant's attitude than to your workload.
- "Vigorous"
is code for "has a Napoleonic compulsion to take
over the world."
- "Grandma's
Favorite"
-- until she discovered free-flowering, disease-resistant
hybrids.
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Hamlines
"There
can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you
were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would
find them smiling."
~Mirabel Osler
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The
1818 Rachel Hamlen homestead is looking for a new owner!
Rachel’s lovely vintage home on St. Albans Road
would be the perfect location and fit for a family, a
cozy B&B, or an ice cream parlor/café restaurant.
Interested? Give Dave a call at Hamlen’s (802) 868-4255.
Address: 165 ST. Albans Rd., Swanton,
VT. 05488 |
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