Kristopher Radder, Brattleboro Reformer
BELLOWS FALLS â Lee Boucher is all thumbs â green thumbs.
Boucher is a one-woman task force, turning vacant corners of downtown Bellows Falls into colorful gardens.
Taking no money and accepting donations only for plants, Boucher has been the downtown gardener for about 20 years, with little fanfare. She currently tends about nine gardens of various shapes and sizes in the downtown village area, including a large sunny garden next to the Bellows Falls Police Station, as well as gardens along the Westminster Terrance retaining wall, the parking lot next to the American Legion, the Red Light Hill garden and fountain, the Hetty Green parking lot, the Pump House near Lisaiâs Market, and several small gardens next to the Stairside Building and Jimâs Arcade.