This Week at Mundy Wilson Piper & Win Piper’s Garden
Lords Hill Lane in Etna, NH
Rain Date 7/24/24
From the Lyme ListServ:
We are happy to share our ‘garden in progress’ with Lyme Gardeners and Hanover Garden Club. Join us for light refreshments among our many container pots & gardens while we chat about what can evolve at our peaceful and beautiful but challenging garden site.
In 2022 we moved into this geothermal solar-powered house which was built in 2017 on the site of HGC Member Eva Templeton’s former home. Many thanks to Eva & Stuart for leaving us such wonderful stewardship karma! Our land is almost 30 acres of mixed forest, meadow and cultivated gardens in need of restoration, and we’ve been taking our time observing the site conditions while gardening in pots and planters. It’s quite dry and windy with sandy soil and lots of ledge. We are planning major planting work upon completion of upcoming building renovations and hardscaping, and we welcome your ideas and suggestions – we’ll leave out a notebook for your thoughts.
We are particularly interested in broad scale naturalistic native plant restoration, and are inspired by the work of designers Kelly Norris and Piet Oudolf. And we have so many nesting birds here thanks to the inspiration of entomologist Doug Tallamy, and like for so many others deer are an issue with understory succession in our woodlands. Our perspective has shifted over the last few years from focusing on beauty to gardening more for nature, and we are reducing the amount of cultivated lawn that suffers on this dry hillside. Currently we are concentrating on restoring a few small areas that won’t be impacted by future construction with native shrubs and perennials, and on removing invasive plants. Please come and enjoy!
Directions: From Lyme to 82 Lords Hill Lane in Etna: Take NH 10 South 3 miles and turn left turn onto Goose Pond Road, then half a mile later take a slight right onto Rennie Road. At 1.3 miles turn right onto Hanover Center Road, then at 2.6 miles turn right onto Lords Hill Lane – we are at the very end. It helps some folks to know Lords Hill Lane is located between the upper and lower portions of Dogford Road off of Hanover Center Road.
Parking: For those who need accessibility, park in front of both the barn & house garage doors (pulling straight in) or around the driveway circle on the mown side. Lots of additional parking is on Lord’s Hill Lane all along the right side of the driveway – come to the top and around the circle to park facing down the hill. Please keep the un-mown inside of the driveway circle clear, and please don’t block our neighbor’s driveway.
Lyme Gardeners is a very informal group of people from Lyme and surrounding communities who share an interest in gardens, gardening and plants in general.
Our primary activity is Pardon My Garden (PMG), visiting each other’s gardens most Tuesdays, and usually somewhere between 1-7:30pm, from early May until late September.
addresses and timing details are distributed via the Lyme Gardener’s Listserv.
To SUBSCRIBE to the Lyme Gardeners listserv, send a blank email to subscribe@lists.vitalcommunities.org.