Four wild grapes appeared spontaneously in the garden nearly a decade ago. Since then, others have sprouted in different areas of the garden. A neighbor, Mary, with a home-based nursery business, Snow Brook Gardens, in Parkman, found some grapes growing beside the foundation of a long-gone dwelling. The grapes are large and round, she reports. I moved three of these to the rock wall.

Yesterday I moved eight grapes planted along the stone wall along the sideline of the pasture. I am developing the area to the Rock Wall Walk—a more formal walk up the hill along the pasture and the maintained woodland. There are wild Hollies, several Viburnums, and I found an oak seedling when moving the grapes. There is a mix of wildflowers at the pasture’s edge, naturally.

Many plants have been found as volunteers using my gardening technique called Selective Weeding. I do not pull the weeds if I do not know them. For many plant species, I may know them with the first true set of leaves that appear on the seedling after the cotyledons. That is how I found the grapes growing wild in my garden. I have gained many different choices of shrubs and trees for the garden this way.

Now the grapes have all this space to climb. They will climb onto the stone wall and use the forest edge to grow into the tree. In a few years, the grapes could be in the tree canopy.

I had help transplanting the grapes. After we worked on the labyrinth. Over the last year, it has been going through renovation. The brick outline was straightened, and on the perimeter of the labyrinth, gravel was poured to beef up the edge. Also, to raise the ground level where the rain and spring runoff water would gather at one side of it.

We covered the gravel with topsoil stolen from the vegetable garden on the lower side, with the 150 daffodils and tulips coming, so getting the area ready. More on the labyrinth coming up when the Dutch bulbs get here. Think good thoughts and have a wonderful life.