Many things happened in Shomrei’s garden during the spring and summer of 2025 to keep the gardens beautiful and productive.
This year’s new blooms started in the fall of 2024, when Shomrei Emunah again received 125 bulbs from May in Montclair. About ⅔ of the bulbs were daffodils; the rest were red and yellow tulips. Eliot Fischer and I created a new bed for these bulbs to the left of the main synagogue entrance by the driveway, and then planted the bulbs. The pachysandra plants that we removed were given to another Montclair gardener who was most appreciative of that ground cover plant. The daffodils and tulips burst into colorful bloom this April and May. (more…)