Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: A garden for all to enjoy Nancy D’Amato by the stump that she has planted with columbine and other Sedums at the North Amherst Library garden. “I just think it has coalesced into a soup of interesting mix of colors and shapes. It either applies to you are you think what a pointless mess,” said D’Amato. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
The North Amherst Library garden. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Nancy D’Amato by the stump she has planted with columbine and sedums at the North Amherst Library garden. “I just think it has coalesced into a soup of interesting mix of colors and shapes. It either applies to you or you think, what a pointless mess,” she said. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Get Growing: Putting the new garden to bed
A new shade garden that Mickey Rathbun created with her son Nicholas over the summer. At top,slabs of Goshen stone make a curving path bisecting the garden. mickey rathbun photos
Published: 12/19/2020 11:03:41 AM
Many gardeners I know put in new garden beds this summer vegetables, perennials, even moss spurred by COVID restlessness and the desire to get their hands in the dirt. The impetus for me to add a new bed was the availability of manpower, specifically, the brawn of my 27-year-old son Nicholas, who fled the craziness of Brooklyn last May and stayed with my husband and me in Amherst for several weeks.