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10/13/2026

Join us in packing up native seeds to stock the Seed Share drawers.

All are welcome on Monday October 19th from 4-7pm at the

Please sign up via the link below:

https://calendar.buckslib.org/event/17551631

See you there! 🌱

10/07/2026

Thank you Dan M. for the Black Hole Sun Sunflower seeds!

We’re excited to offer these in the 2027 collection 🌻

09/29/2026

Thank you to community seed savers Christy H. & Nancy P. for the abundance of seeds we’ll be adding to the drawers. We appreciate your generosity!

09/24/2026

A heartfelt thank you to for the generous donation.

We are thrilled to fill the drawers with a wonderful variety of seeds for local gardeners to plant 🌱

09/23/2026

Rethinking the Lawn 🌼

Heather’s garden is still evolving. One of her next projects is transforming a portion of her front lawn into a native meadow—reducing the need for mowing while increasing the landscape’s value to wildlife.

Future plans also include a hellstrip pollinator learning garden where neighbors can explore and enjoy native plants, restoration of a sloped woodland area through invasive plant removal and native planting, and additional bat boxes.

It’s a great example of how a landscape can change over time. Heather isn’t simply filling spaces with plants—she’s thoughtfully considering what each space can provide.

More habitat. Less mowing. More food for wildlife. More opportunities to connect with nature.

On just .52 acres, Heather has already planted an estimated 1,500–2,000 native plants, and she’s not finished yet.

Gardens are always in progress—and there’s always another possibility waiting to take root. 🌱

We’re grateful to Heather for opening her garden to Bucks Beautiful and sharing her knowledge, creativity and passion for growing.

09/22/2026

A Garden Designed for Wildlife 🦉🦇🌿

Heather’s garden isn’t just about what she can grow—it’s also about creating a landscape where wildlife can find food, water, shelter and places to nest.

Throughout the property, Heather has incorporated thoughtful habitat features including bat houses, an owl box and a pond, while native plantings provide food and shelter for pollinators, birds and other wildlife.

Even the less traditional garden spaces have a purpose. Shady areas provide the perfect setting for shiitake logs, while garden beds have been inoculated with w**e cap mushrooms. Compost bins help turn organic material back into a resource for the garden.

With an estimated 1,500–2,000 native plants planted across just .52 acres, Heather has created a landscape where gardening and habitat restoration go hand in hand.

It’s a garden that demonstrates how even a relatively small property can provide food, beauty and habitat for a much larger community of living things.

09/21/2026

Growing Food Among the Flowers 🌱🐝

Heather’s vegetable garden takes a traditional approach and gives it a natural twist: 10 raised beds surrounded by native pollinator plantings.

This year’s garden is bursting with variety—from Sungold, Queen of the Night and Striped German Paste tomatoes to Jimmy Nardello peppers, Fortex pole beans, Straight Eight cucumbers, Aunt Molly’s ground cherries, beets, Cocozelle zucchini and butternut squash.

There’s also Glass Gem corn, sweet and white potatoes, Danvers carrots and gooseberries, along with an impressive collection of herbs including basil, French tarragon, Tulsi, parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, peppermint, lavender and pineapple sage.

Surrounding the raised beds with native plants creates a beautiful transition between the vegetable garden and the rest of the landscape while providing valuable resources for pollinators.

Heather’s garden is a wonderful reminder that a productive vegetable garden can also be beautiful habitat. 🌿

And through her work with the Bucks County Seed Share, gardeners can get a head start on creating their own edible gardens with free seeds and seed-starting kits available at the Morrisville Free Library and Southampton Free Library.

09/20/2026

Garden Inspiration: From Invasives to Abundance 🌿

Our garden tour continues with Heather Guidice, a Bucks County Master Gardener, co-founder of the Bucks County Seed Share, and owner of Kona Compost Co.

Heather has transformed an area once overtaken by invasive plants into a thriving Food Forest—a productive landscape that provides food for both people and wildlife.

And the variety is remarkable. Her Food Forest includes:

🍎 Apples: ‘Freedom,’ an unknown mystery variety and Siberian Crab Apple
🌳 Pawpaws: ‘Tallahatchie’ and ‘Susquehanna’
🍊 Persimmon: ‘Miss Kim’
🌿 Fig: ‘Chicago Hardy’
🫐 Berries: blueberries, strawberries, honeyberries ‘Indigo Gem’ and ‘Indigo Treat,’ currants ‘Pink Champagne,’ ‘Consort’ and ‘Red Lake,’ and elderberry ‘Nova’
🍒 Bush cherry
🌱 Rhubarb and sunchokes

Woven throughout the Food Forest are more than 50 varieties of native plants, creating a diverse landscape that supports pollinators and wildlife while producing food for the gardener.

What was once an unproductive, invasive-filled area is now a garden that offers food, habitat and beauty—a wonderful example of what can happen when we rethink an underused space.

And Heather’s garden continues to evolve. Follow along as we explore more of this inspiring property in our next post. 🌱

09/19/2026

There’s More Than One Way to Garden 🌱

Our visit to Jean's garden was a reminder that successful gardening isn’t about having the “perfect” property. It’s about observing what you have—and finding creative ways to make it work.

-A shady area becomes a lush garden of hostas and ferns.
-A low area becomes a native rain garden.
-A challenging vegetable garden becomes a lesson in working with light, growing vertically and repurposing everyday materials.

Jean’s garden is also filled with whimsical touches that give the space its own personality—a child’s toy tucked among the trees, colorful mushrooms seemingly “sprouting” from the garden, birdhouses inviting feathered visitors, and benches that encourage you to stop and enjoy the surroundings. Even the rustic wreath suspended above the garden gate has a practical purpose, serving as a clever deer deterrent. These playful details show that a garden can be both functional and fun.

Together, these spaces demonstrate something we love about gardening: every property has possibilities.

And the inspiration continues! Next, we’ll take you into Heather’s garden, where we’ll share more examples of what you can create in your own landscape. 🌿

09/18/2026

A Closer Look at What’s Growing 🌱🍅

We couldn’t visit Jean’s vegetable garden without taking a closer look at what’s flourishing!

From Jersey Devil Tomatoes, Heirloom Dry Beans, Jimmy Nardello peppers, fragrant basil and tomatoes to Shinshu Runner Beans and Canada Heirloom Beans, the garden is packed with an impressive variety of edible plants.

But perhaps the most impressive sight was the Chinese Python Snake Bean—which is actually a gourd. Standing next to Jean, its enormous size is hard to miss!

This glimpse of the abundance Jean has developed is proof that with creativity, experimentation and a little patience, there’s always something exciting growing in the garden.

Inspired to grow something of your own? 🌱 Through the Bucks County Seed Share, Jean and Heather are helping make that possible by providing free seeds and seed-starting kits for herbs, vegetables and flowers. Stop by the Morrisville Free Library or Southampton Free Library to pick up seeds and start growing!

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