Greetings from the Herb Garden of the National Arboretum where volunteers John Wheeler (DC Master Gardener of ‘05), Jim Connolly and Jim Thurston (from left) work up a good sweat every Tuesday morning. (No, they’re not holding hands, but they are very friendly guys.)
The ubiquitous John Wheeler (you last saw him at the National Cathedral) likes to prune and gets plenty of it at the Herb Garden. Jim Connolly came to volunteer here at the suggestion of his wife, a Virginia Master Gardener, and the skills he picked up over the years working as her Undergardener are put to good use here in the Herb Garden. Besides, after the couple moved into a townhouse he needed somewhere to garden! And the first thing he did was to recruit his golfing buddy Jim Thurston to volunteer, too. And that Jim told me he doesn’t know a weed from a keeper, but is very happy just following instructions.
So I wrote over on the DC Master Gardener News site, where the story goes on to list the considerable benefits of volunteering at the National Arboretum. But I’m so enamored of these guys I decided to give them a little more exposure, and why not nominate them for the Sexist Men in Gardening Contest going on over at GardenRant? I’ll be writing later this week about cute young Matt James, the new "fresh face" in gardening, but honestly, I’ll take these sweaty seniors any day. I’m sure they clean up real nice.
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