Groton Neighbors

JUNE in Groton 🌳
Juvenile Great Blue Herons — a boisterous bunch. Their crests stand up like that when they get excited.

Free concert at Groton Hill — a new big band.

Join us for the Generation Big Band’s first ever performance as a new student ensemble of ages 16 and up! All are welcome – no tickets needed! ⭐

Directed by Jerry Sabatini, this ensemble explores the foundations of the standard big band repertoire and the evolution of big band music by some of the most important composers and band leaders in American Jazz – and Music – history.

🌸 Signs of SPRING in Groton:
Common cinquefoil (Potentilla simplex) — tough and resilient in poor soil and harsh conditions. A native plant.

🌸 Signs of SPRING in Groton:
Ragged-Robin, also called cuckoo flower. (Silene flos-cuculi) Found in and near wetlands.

Signs of SPRING in Groton

🌸 Wild geranium is a favorites. Wildflower. We usually see them as onesies and twosies. But, if you can visit the Bates Land in this week, you can see a meadow filled with wild geranium. This is the sort of thing that is difficult to show in a photo, but really, it’s a vision of loveliness, quite unusual to see so many of these delicate flowers all blooming together in a meadow. (Geranium maculatum) a native plant.
The word geranium is derived from the Latin “geranos” meaning “crane” and the long narrow seed capsule resembles the bill of a crane. Another common name for wild geranium is “cranesbill.”