Follow the Blooms. It's the title of the event andit's what the Bedford Garden Club and the Bedford Women's Club hopearea residents will do Saturday, July 7, as five gardens will beshowcased during a residential tour in town. "I always say it's my peace time, it's my therapytime," said Donna Guibord, whose Joppa Hill Road gardens willbe open to ticket holders. "I love being outside and justenjoy creating with my hands, and that's part of gardening." Guibord said it was not until she moved to Bedford five years agothat was she able to plant her first perennial garden.
Now she hasseveral separate gardens and hundreds of square feet of plant life,and she considers her plants to be very happy. The hostas are her prize plant. "I just love them," she said. "They're absolutelyunique.
It's the first thing you see when you look at the garden,they're so large." Guibord said with the amount of sun her garden takes in, herperennials grow to enormous proportions. "The hostas areprobably 4 feet in diameter, if not 5, and 3 1/2 feet high." She also cultivates hybrid lilies, catamite, beards tongue, yarrow,echinacea, Shasta daisies, liatra, stone crop, salvia, variousshrubs, potentillia, wine and roses weigela — and that's justin the larger garden. In the lower garden, visitors will find knockout roses aplenty, andin the shade garden there are ferns, hostas, astilbes, whiteimpatients and other varieties. There is also a vegetable garden, and annuals are interspersedthroughout for color.
"There's a lot of purples and yellows and pinks,"Guibord said. "And then different shrubberies have differentcolors, and it all works in very well." Guibord was concerned with the onslaught of rain in the spring. "But things are really starting to take off and grow realnice now," she said. Her drip irrigation system is of key importance, especially given arecent heat wave.
"When we have this type of weather the water is very, veryimportant," she said. "I fertilize all the time, too,and I think that has a lot to do with it." She also aerates the soil regularly to provide plants with oxygenand to let fertilizer seep to the roots. For Guibord and her fellow gardeners, texture is a keyconsideration. "(My garden) has such different texture, and that's whatmakes it unique," she said. "That means a lot to agardener, the different textures that come." "You have very large-leaf plants, you have other plants thatare more succulent, with thick leaves, then you have some of theshrubbery, then you have some plants that move very freely in theair." Asked what the secret is behind growing such large plants, Guibordsaid you have to speak nicely to them.
"Most gardeners do talk to their plants. It's part of thetherapy of having a garden. I just tell them they're pretty,"she said. Jeanene Procopis of the club said the self-guided tour begins atthe Peter Woodbury School.
"People will go there an pick up their tour book, which istheir ticket to the gardens, then they can proceed in any orderthey wish to," Procopis said. Club members will be present at each of the gardens, "toguide the visitors through the preferred way of walking through thegarden," Procopis said. Gardeners have written descriptions of their planted areas, andvisitors are instructed on which way to walk, to identify theflora. A garden at Peter Woodbury School, which produces vegetables to alocal food bank, will also be on display during the tour.
Localartists will be working their crafts art at the various gardens,and the Bedford Craft Workers Guild will be selling specialgarden-related items during tour hours. Follow the Blooms runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on July 7. Ticketscan be purchased for $17 by July 1, by sending a check payable tothe Bedford Women's Club c/o Jackie Lucas, 31 McQuade Brook Rd.,Bedford, N.H., 03110.
They are also available at Bedford Fields and Depot Farm inMerrimack. On the day of the event, tickets will be available for$20 at the registration tent, starting at 10 a.m. at the PeterWoodbury School in Bedford.
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