Hey, Mom! Look at These Flowers. Spending a morning walking through the flower fields to harvest a garden bouquet with every flower I find. Before I ever sold flowers, I was growing them for pure enjoyment of being with flowers and then making bouquets to give to my mom and my grandmother. As I like …
Walking through the garden in mid-July, I selectively harvest early summer blooms for a subscriber’s large vase bouquet. With the yellow oriental lily, I match it with other yellow flowers, and collaborate these shades of yellow with flowers of white and blue. Focal Flower For this bouquet, I want the focus to be the oriental …
A part of flower farming is to create beautiful arrangements for my own home. Market bouquets are easy to put together, but to unleash my creative side with flowers, I harvest flowers to build a higher level arrangement. While harvesting yellow flowers in the garden for one large bouquet, I harvested enough for two bouquets, …
Ooh. What a challenge these Apricot Arena Lisianthus were. What a comeback from my first year growing these! Growing any lisianthus is challenging taking about 8 months from seed to harvest, but by harvest these flowers are absolutely beautiful mixing the beauties of tulips and roses into one late summer bloom. Overcoming Challenges of My …
2023- the year of late frosts, the building of three construction projects, and the brown and mucky Christmas season, at least the first days. May brought on some lovely days for planting followed by nights of freezing temperatures. From the Sunday after muzzleloader season of 2022 to early winter of 2023, my husband and I, …