Meutch: Sharing With Your Community

Meutch home page: What if borrowing from a neighbor was as easy as buying from Amazon?

Remember when you needed a wheelbarrow last summer when you had mulch delivered to your driveway? You didn’t own a wheelbarrow at the time.

But you ended up buying one for that once-a-year project. Now the wheelbarrow sits in your garage 51 weeks of the year.

Unused.

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Photo of the Week: Share Your Reflections

Wooden framed sign with blue words on a white background. Background of blurred green leaves.

At our first group walk for 2025 fall bird migration, I discovered new signage at the far east end of the Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

A wooden plaque on a post next to an enclosed protective glass box asked visitors to share their reflections and experiences at Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum (MBGNA).

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Photo of the Week: Peonies After the Rain

Yellow-centered multi-petaled red peony flower stands upright in a mass of green leaves.

With last week’s rain showers, I was concerned how peonies at the W.E. Upjohn Peony Garden in Nichols Arboretum would hold up.

And I was right.

With an early bloom this year, the heavy weight of the rain-covered flowers caused many branches to bend in arches to the ground.

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