JASM Members -- Join us later in June
on a visit to Bowdoin's Japanese Garden
and the Eartheart Gardens in Harpswell

Cherry and apple blossoms came and went and it is already June! Now it is garden-going season again, and we hope you’ll join us! On Saturday 27 June, from 11.30, we’ll visit first the Japanese Garden at Bowdoin College and then, once again, the Eartheart Gardens in Harpswell.

First, however, on Thursday, 11 June, there will be a working gathering of volunteers at Bowdoin’s Japanese Garden. We’ll work from 9:00 to 11:00 or so.

Jo McCarten, a JASM member and volunteer at the Bowdoin Japanese Garden, will reconstruct the fence on the east end of the garden. Jo researched traditional Japanese garden fences and will teach everyone ‘the knot’ used to hold the fence together. The group will be weeding and pruning and getting ready for JASM’s visit on Saturday, 27 June.

Many of us enjoyed JASM’s visit to the Bowdoin Garden last year. [We did it last year in a heavy drizzle and it was delightful, so this is one event won’t be called on account of rain.] Since we were there, the ground cover has been changed to moss on the recommendation of the Japanese Gardener Masa Seko, and we’ll see other changes the year has brought. We’ll have time for questions and discussion and photographing.

After the Bowdoin Garden visit, we will drive to Eartheart Gardens in Harpswell, where we’ll have our brown-bag lunch, and then we’ll enjoy the late Siberian Irises and early Japanese Irises. Master Gardener

Sharon Whitney will tell us about her irises and answer any questions we have. For a preview of what awaits us there, visit their website.

We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these happy seasonal gatherings.
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The JASM Board