I love the Vernal Equinox! It not only represents the start of springtime, it really sums up the mood of this time of year, in my mind! The image of the earth in equal parts light and equal part dark always seems so fitting to me.

One minute you’re crazed with Spring Fever, planting seeds with abandon and the next you’re scouring the weather reports for sign of an early spring frost, fearing you’re about to lose all your hard work!  This is when I am so thankful that I get to work with all the students that participate in the Adaptive Gardens Programs.  The students that come to us to learn recreational horticulture are such excited gardeners! When darkness crosses the experienced gardener, and they can only see five more weeds for every one that is pulled, the new, young, fresh gardener full of brightness and light sees every fresh bright green sprout even before it fully emerges from the soil!  I think it is these great excited, new gardeners out here in the Adaptive Gardens that have single handedly chased winter away!  And I, for one, try very hard this time of year to bask in their sunny glow!

Spring Fever!
If you want to come and join us in the Springtime revelry email me at catherine@adaptivegardens.org. Also, if you or anyone you know is interested in Horticultural Therapy, I am teaching a class for the Charleston Horticultural Society on April 10th. For more information contact Leslie Brady at http://charlestonhorticulturalsociety.org/ .

And, Don’t forget about the two plant sales that AGL will be participating in on April 24th! We hope to see you at Fam Jam at the Charleston Children’s Museum, downtown on April 24th, and/ or Plantasia, with the Charleston Horticultural Society, also on April 24th! So on April 24th you have two Fabulous Family Fun locations to support Adaptive Gardens of the Low country and get everything you need for your Spring vegetable garden!

Lastly, our very own Adaptive Gardens Organic Potting Soil Mix is also for sale! Look for it at the Our Local Foods Farm Store and Sweetgrass Hardware, too!

Can’t wait to see you in the garden!

Catherine McGuinn

Horticultural Therapist and Program Director of Adaptive Gardens of the Low country