A Garden In Thyme

10/11/2026

Morning Blessing

May you begin today trusting yourself
a little more than you did yesterday.
May you remember how many difficult moments
you have already found your way through.
May you stop asking every outside voice
to confirm what your heart already knows.
May one decision feel lighter because
it is finally yours.
May you discover that self-trust grows
each time you keep a promise to yourself.
And may you become someone
your own heart knows it can rely on.

✍️ Rivers in the Ocean

10/07/2026

There is something wonderfully restorative about making a wreath with your own hands, and now I am bringing that experience directly to your home.
Private wreath-making workshops are now open for scheduling. I arrive with every supply, set up your table with care, and guide you through about two hours of unhurried, creative work with natural grapevine wreaths, fresh evergreens, dried botanicals, and seasonal ribbon, using traditional wreath-making techniques. You leave with a fragrant, handsome wreath of your own making.
Gather friends, family, or neighbors for an evening that is part workshop, part celebration.
$125 per person | 6-person minimum
Travel beyond 20 miles of Lambertville may include an additional fee.
The holiday season arrives swiftly, and I have a limited number of dates available. Send me a message to reserve yours.
🌿 Garden in Thyme
Landscape Design & Botanical Education

09/24/2026

And so it begins...
Artist Frank Godwin 1919

09/16/2026

September marks the final opportunity to experience the Hibbs House Kitchen Garden Tour this season: https://tinyurl.com/yprxcnn5 🏡

On Friday, September 25 at 12:30 PM, step into the sights, scents, and stories of an 18th-century kitchen garden and discover how plants supported everyday life during the Revolutionary era 💐

Registration is required for this final daytime tour of the growing season. Then, mark your calendar for a special Twilight Garden Tour: Poison, Potions & Folklore in the Colonial Garden on Friday, October 30, at 5:30 PM 🔮

Led by Park Historical Horticulturist Anna Davis, this atmospheric evening tour will explore the medicines, protective herbs, dangerous plants, dyes, and folklore hidden within the colonial garden 🌿

09/05/2026

These were created for our Members dinner to show our appreciation and bring a little of this garden to them. The sunflower volunteered last year and her offspring are a seasonal garden highlight.

08/23/2026

Incredible surviving medieval ridge and furrow – the unmistakable remains of England’s ancient open-field farming system.

For centuries, much of rural England was organised into huge communal fields controlled through the manor. Rather than individual farmers owning neat, enclosed fields, arable land was divided into numerous long strips cultivated by different families. Alongside these were common pastures for grazing livestock, meadows, woodland and land reserved for the lord of the manor.

Generations of ploughing gradually created the distinctive ridge-and-furrow pattern still visible across parts of the countryside today. Each raised ridge was separated by a shallow furrow that helped with drainage.

Then came enclosure.

Between the medieval period and the 19th century, increasingly large areas of common and open-field land were consolidated into individual farms and enclosed with hedges, walls and fences. Parliamentary enclosure alone affected around 6.8 million acres – roughly one-fifth of England.

The consequences were enormous. Ancient communal farming practices disappeared, field boundaries were transformed and the familiar patchwork landscape of hedgerows and enclosed fields became increasingly dominant.

Yet in places where the old fields escaped later ploughing, their medieval ridges remain clearly visible.

They are effectively the fossilised footprints of a farming system that shaped rural England for centuries.

08/13/2026

Build community/cultivate habitat/plant the seeds of better ways... “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~Buckminster Fuller

07/28/2026

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