Catskill Native Nursery

05/09/2026

🪺🌿🩷 For those of you who still need a Mother’s Day gift for your gardening Mom, we can do PDFs of Gift Certificates and send them via email. (just sayin’, we’re sure none of you actually forgot about Sunday 😉) Link to website page in comments.
🌺 Artwork by Lisa Hunt, "Elder-Tree Mother", a guardian spirit from Scandinavian and British folklore.

05/02/2026

🐝🐝 Better than "No Mow May" is a garden full of plants that nourish our pollinators. 💐 Plant these to support native bees in Spring:

04/18/2026

🌞 We are back to our regular hours of 9:30-6:00 Thurs-Mon, closed Tue. & Wed. 🥀🙂

💦❄️💦DUE TO THE RETURN OF WINTER NIGHT TIME TEMPS - THE NURSERY WILL BE CLOSED SUNDAY, APRIL 19TH AND MONDAY APRIL 20TH, we are normally closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so our next opening day will be Thursday April 23rd. We are doing this so we can cover plants in order to protect new growth and flower buds. 💦❄️💦

Artwork: “Jack Frost” Vintage Hungarian Foil Postcard

04/08/2026

🥀 Catskill Native Nursery is officially open for 2026! 🥀
Hours are 9:30-6:00, Closed Tues & Wed. 🥀
🥀 Let the gardening season begin! 😀

03/20/2026

🌸 Welcome 1st Day of Spring!- and the reunion of Demeter, Goddess of the Earth, and her daughter, Persephone, Goddess of Plants and the Underworld. 🌱

🌸 DEMETER

Where I lived – winter and hard earth.
I sat in my cold stone room
choosing tough words, granite, flint,

to break the ice. My broken heart -
I tried that, but it skimmed,
flat, over the frozen lake.

She came from a long, long way,
but I saw her at last, walking,
my daughter, my girl, across the fields,

In bare feet, bringing all spring’s flowers
to her mother’s house. I swear
the air softened and warmed as she moved

the blue sky smiling, none too soon,
with the small shy mouth of a new moon.

🌱 Poem from "The World’s Wife" by Carol Ann Duffy
Artwork: by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire's from D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

03/11/2026

💦🦎🐸"There may be an amphibian migration tonight. The temperature looks right and there will likely be some rain. Please drive slowly and look out for little bodies crossing the roads right after dusk. (Or consider not going out driving at all if it isn’t necessary.) If it’s safe to stop, wet your hands and give them a little roadside assistance to the side of the road that they are facing. Creatures could use our help, they have places to be!" - Lea Mazzei, Head Gardener at GardenMakers 💦🦎🐸

🦎 Artwork by Zoe Keller, "Zena Woods Vernal Pool Amphibians", See more of her work and buy a print here:https://www.zoekeller.com/store/p/vernal-pool-amphibians

03/08/2026

🌞 March is the month in which we get the most dramatic transition of light in the Northern Hemisphere. The cold sun of winter gives way to a brighter, warmer light as the March sun moves higher in the sky. It ’s the fastest increase in day length of the entire year. By the end of the month, many areas will have gained an additional 100 minutes of daylight- and you don't need to look at a clock to know dawn is arriving earlier and dusk later.

✨Photo: Our western window on an afternoon in March.

03/03/2026

🦋 🌿🌼This is a free online talk hosted by The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Anyone can sign up and I would encourage people to give a donation at their website so they continue their work in these days of less government support for science and the environment. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/belonging-to-the-earth-an-evening-with-robin-wall-kimmerer-live-stream-tickets-1984155090287?aff=mailchimp&mc_cid=72aee864c2&mc_eid=4b8603f88a&fbclid=IwY2xjawQTFnxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFJeHdMN25VVW5pNHBaN1JTc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsld7yV0opT0quM7hFsnGW1j--9M5LVdcTgnnWpIvRyWsUKM44uuL4bYIST0_aem_Hn_dCsX2CuWypYc3MoImwA

Explore how scientific inquiry can be enriched by Indigenous ecological knowledge.

02/09/2026

❄️❄️When I look out at the backyard tundra it’s hard to believe that in just 3.5 months the nursery gardens are going to look like this again...

01/25/2026

There you are
this cold day
boiling the water on the stove,
pouring the herbs into the pot,
hawthorn, rose;
buying the tulips
& looking at them, holding
your heart in your hands at the table
saying please, please, to nobody else
there in the kitchen with you.
How hard, how heavy this all is.
How beautiful, these things you do,
in case they help, these things you do
that, although you haven’t said it yet,
say that you want to live. ❄️ 🫖☕️

❄️-Victoria Adukwei Bulley
❄️Artwork: Carl Larsson, Watercolor, 1906
🫖☕️ Hoping you're all safe and warm ☕️🥐
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01/11/2026

🦆🦉🐦 A week ago, Francis participated in an Audubon Christmas Bird count around Ellenville. Here are some of the birds he saw...

If you are interested in learning more about the count, I'll put a link in the comments. 🦅