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 2025
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Lots of cute garden related items like pots, plants, and local, raw, pure honey available and more!!!

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OPEN TIMES
Most days 11:30 am
By Appointment to fall
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Please Like my Facebook Page,
lots of gardening info on it
copy/paste to your address line

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My Garden OPEN HOUSE 2025
TBD
6:30 pm to 9 pm
FREE Event
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Neptune's Harvest Organic Fertilizer
 32oz bottles
$20
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Raw, Local Area Honey
I have a hive & I am a Beekeeper
 $1 lb $13, $22 2 lb, 5 lb $55
Honey Sticks 4/$1
Honey Comb $20
Creamed Honey $20
Did you know: I donate profits to my local scholarship, PAWS Wakefield, Wakefield Music Boosters, Wolf Hollow, Liberty Farms
and I am a Stone Zoo, MA Audubon member
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Services below:
  • Consultations at your home in Wakefield or surrounding towns $50 per hr outside towns within half hour drive $60
  • Phone calls and visit consults to my gardens $35 per hour
  • Landscape Designing or redesigning your garden consults $50 per hour
  • Plant Identification--bought a new house and wondering what's growing in it? $50 per hour
  • Perennials,  Organic Herbs, Scented Geraniums (mosquito plant, citrus scent), Tropical Houseplants, Organic Vegetables for sale
  • Repotting your plants
  • Advice on how to fertilize your plants
  • House Sale/Buying preparation *landscape redesigning, make it welcoming
  • Garden Therapy
  • How to start your own veggie garden, herb garden, perennial garden or a pond
  • Garden Classes--private & groups
  • How to transplant house plants
  • Virtual/phone consults available
  • Gift Certificates available

GARDEN PRESENTATIONS:
I am no longer doing long-distance presentations, only within my local surrounding towns area within approx a 45 min or so drive. I do have lots of information on these topics and handouts.

TOPICS:

*TERRARIUMS how to demo
*DISH/FAIRY Gardens using tropicals, cactus, or succulents
*HOUSE PLANTS--tropicals, how to take care of them, cuttings, propagation, fertilizer,
*PELARGONIUMS--Scented Geraniums--cuttings, propagation
*CONTAINER/FAIRY Gardens/Window Boxes--perennials, herbs, annuals, tropicals, succulents
*PERENNIALS--how to split and propagation
*OPENING the Gardens for Spring
*CLOSING the Gardens for Winter
*VEGGIES in the Organic Backyard Garden
*HERBS in the Organic Backyard Garden to Delight the Senses (same one I did for the Boston Flower Show '15)
*GARDENING 101--Organic Gardening
More info on my presentation tab above.


BIO:
*Retired business/technology teacher, BS, M.Ed.
25 years teaching
*Grew up on a farm helping my Grandparents
*Backyard gardening over 40 years, annuals, perennials, herbs, veggies, ponds, rock walls, grass
*Belong to garden clubs in the area
* MassHort, volunteer at NE Spring Flower Show
*Presenter at the NE Spring Flower show

*Presenter for social groups and garden clubs 
*Teacher--Garden classes for the Wakefield Adult Ed and in my backyard
*Published in the Wakefield Daily Item, Wakefield Observer, and Yankee Magazine a picture of my 3 headed sunflower
*Garden Consultant
*Garden Designer
*Organic Grower
--perennials, herbs, rare annuals, heirlooms, reseeders, tropicals

MISSION STATEMENT:
        As a gardener, one of my goals is to bring beauty into my life with flowers and friends. Another goal is to grow my own  healthy food from my organic veggie and healthy herbs. And lastly, putting back into nature and our environment to replenish what I have taken out of it through composting. I recycle all kitchen scraps (no protein).
        Please recycle plastic, glass, and bring canvas bags to the grocery stores...please limit plastic bag use. Ask for paper bags and recycle your newspapers in them at the curb or bring to a recycling bin for newspapers/paper. Help your local schools recycle paper, bottles/cans, etc.

THINK GREEN!
Another one of my goals is to spread the word about the benefits of BACKYARD ORGANIC GARDENING using many different types of  mediums--researching information on horticulture, growing plants, teaching garden classes, garden consulting, garden coaching, garden therapy, public speaking, and belonging to horticulture organizations. Grow Organic/Buy Organic!
Check out my other pages above or click on the links on the above left.


**GARDEN GIFT CERTIFICATES** FOR BIRTHDAYS, HOUSE WARMING PRESENTS, SELLING OR PURCHASING A NEW HOUSE



Plant Sale 2025
​OPEN Apr-Nov

BUY LOCAL! Organic!
By Appointment Only
Open to fall
Venmo  or Cash

Flowers,  perennials, herbs...
Pots are $3 small & $5 a large. 

Misc plants $1-$8

Garden plants in pots, local, heirloom, organic

Lots emerging everyday

Tropical babies $3 when available, cuttings $2-$5 each
  • LIKE and Follow my Garden-Sense page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/gardensensebyjean/
  • copy and paste address on address line for my page, you can message me from there

SEEDS  from my gardens--Organic, non-GMO (no chemicals), leeks, garlic chives, angelica, black eye Susans, Datura-white & purple, Scarlet Runner Beans-original Jack in the Beanstock beans.  $3

HELP!!! RECYCLE your empty 4 or 6 inch size pots with me, I need pots!

NOTE: some of the proceeds from my plant sales have gone towards my Dad's Scholarship fund through the  Scholarship Foundation of Wakefield http://www.csfofwakefield.org/  Here is the link if you would like to donate to our fund in his name Joseph N Longo Scholarship. Every year a local student receives $500 from our fund since we are over $10,000! I have also donated to PAWS, Wakefield Music Boosters, Wolf Hollow, Liberty Farms and others.

Other monies made from consultations and presentations goes towards upkeep and garden expenses in my organic gardens. I'm always adding more unique plants and use organic fertilizers and compost which is costly. This is my hobby!

I have also donated plant baskets and gift certificates to the following organizations: Wakefield Lucius Beebe Memorial Library Blossoms at the Beebe event, the Hartshorne House,  Wakefield Garden Club, and other organizations in the area.

Thank you for your support over the years.


GARDEN CONSULTING:
*I can come to your garden and we can talk about your needs, wants, and what you can do--we work together to create a garden that you will be happy with! *Reasonable rates, see Services on left
*Gift Certificates available, great gift!


Plant Day/Nights:
  • Put together a group of 4 people or more and pick a day or night of your own, and topic (Mon or Wed)
  • We meet for 2 hrs - beginner to advanced gardeners, one session or more...
  • Cost is $25 per person (min. 4 people)
  • Private lessons $50 per hour
  • We meet in my backyard, handouts provided, demos, free package of Seeds, discount on plants
    • See TOPICS on the left.

Payments accepted:  Venmo, Cash

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