FoxfireGardens.com
Title
Foxfire Botanical Gardens
Description
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.
Foxfire, or will-o-the-wisp, is a ghostly, bluish light sometimes seen over marshes and low-lying areas. Scientists believe the natural burning of methane (marsh gas) causes the 'fire'. Decaying plants with a limited air source produce methane. Will-o-the-wisp is also called 'jack-o-lantern', 'foxfire', and 'ignis fatuus', a latin term that means "foolish fire". The names of ones garden is an English tradition. We believe that the name found us, rather than us searching for a name.
Once the Lumber Barons had cleared away the towering trees of McMillan Township in the late 1800's, what remained was rolling farmland adjoining the Little Eau Pleine River. The Lumber Baron's daughter and her new husband Mr. and Mrs. Thorton (Mona McMillan) Green replated a section of the land in white spruce beginning in the 1940's. THe result of their reforestation efforts now towers 40 feet into the sky. Unfortunately, the tree plantation was not harvested and became infected with the 'spruce budworm' (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem) in the 1980's which killed many of the spruce.
Contact
- SCHULTE, BAARON
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- new york NY
- US 10029
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- 107
