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Festival blooms at Lavender Fields
Grace Evans strolls through the blooming lavender. DENY HOWETH PHOTOS
June 22, 2017
Milton Garden Club volunteers were on hand to welcome guests to the festival.
Dave Downing entertained with his Steel Pan Music while Simone, Sienna and Laura Harrison enjoy ice cream.
Carlton Colemam explains harvesting and growing techniques with attendees.
Sturges Dodge and Barbara Lloyd paint the lavender while in staying cool in the shade.
Nancy Baggett prepares a recipe with lavender.
Sturges Dodge shows her watercolor.
The lavender is in full bloom at Lavender Fields.
Abbott’s Mill Nature Center and Delaware Nature Society were educating attendees about invasive species and pollinators. Donna Hoyt describes some native plants for gardens.
A statue sits in the shade surrounded by a ground cover that is not a native plant but looks beautiful.
Lavender Fields at Warrington Manor hosted hundreds of visitors for the Lavender Festival.
Lavender is sprouting in the hoop houses.
Nancy Baggett prepares a recipe from her book The Art of Cooking with Lavender.
Lavender Fields at Warrington Manor celebrates the beginning of the lavender harvest season with a Lavender Festival June 10. Hundreds of visitors strolled through the lavender fields and attended demonstrations provided by Lavender Fields staff and the stewards from Abbotts Mill Nature Center.
