Category Archives: Featured Flowers
GROWING AND MAINTAINING ORCHIDS
March 10, 2015
For many years I was under the impression that growing orchids was difficult and even harder to get them to re-bloom the next year. I’m even guilty of throwing out a couple of orchid plants after flowering just for that reason. What I have experienced more recently is that they are really easy to care for and bring back year after year. In fact, I have two plants that I have had for at least ...
Read MorePLANTING BULBS IN THE SNOW
January 27, 2015
In the Northeast, there is a blanket of white covering the ground and snow falling all around, and I am planting bulbs not outside, but on my kitchen counter. The forced Paperwhite’s bulbs that I am planting I purchased towards the end of December and have kept in a white paper bag for over a month now. It was not my intention to do so, but I just didn’t make the time to plant them until now. ...
Read MoreBLOOMING HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS
December 16, 2014
With the holidays here, I wanted to share a few favorite holiday gift ideas I love to give: FORCED BULBS I like to buy bulbs that have been forced for growing indoors and plant them myself in a clay pot to give a little personal touch to my gift along with a bow and instructions on how to grow. My two favorites to give are Amaryllis, which fill a room with color and beauty, and Paper Whites, w...
Read More6AM IN THE MIDST OF THE FOG
December 09, 2014
I got out of my Jeep Wrangler and gathered my equipment. As I turned to the field, I’m stunned by the beauty and peacefulness around me, and I paused to think about the events that led me here. It all started back in the Fall of 2013 when I was shooting some mums for Wednesday’s Flower in our front yard and our plumber Jack stopped by to put a new sink in our bathroom. As he was leaving that ...
Read MoreLONGWOOD GARDENS CHRYSANTHEMUM FESTIVAL
November 25, 2014
There were 1,515 chrysanthemum blooms on just this plant alone that I came across when I visited Longwood Gardens for their Chrysanthemum Festival. There is a really interesting process to creating this plant, known as the Thousand Bloom Mum, which you can read about on their blog. Today we are going to take a tour together of the Festival, and I hope it makes you want to put it on your calendar t...
Read MoreTIME FOR BED
November 04, 2014
After enjoying my cutting garden this past summer, I was reluctant to put it to bed. Not wanting to say goodbye, I realized that I didn’t need to wait until next summer to start a flower garden. Through the winter I could anticipate another cutting garden by planting bulbs for next spring. I was thrilled with this idea and had high hopes of spending hours going through bulb catalogs to make my s...
Read MoreGROWING WILDFLOWERS, HOW IRONIC
October 28, 2014
I have had only one experience attempting to grow wildflowers, which was a couple of years ago, and I did not have much success. But I decided to try again. This time I found a great resource, the Vermont Wildflower Farm, and decided to visit them to get their help in selecting the right seeds and learning how to plant them. When I arrived, I was completely surprised to find that they have seeds g...
Read MoreFLIGHT OF BUTTERFLIES
October 21, 2014
Flight of Butterflies is the most beautiful, tiny and delicate of Irises. I came across it a couple of summers ago at the Dorset Farmer’s Market. Michelle, who sells her own home-grown flowers and beautiful floral arrangements, had these beauties. I was in awe of them, and I couldn’t help but buy the pot she had that day, and in fact, I picked up two more the following week. As they were at th...
Read MoreTHE MARTHA STEWART GARDEN
October 07, 2014
As you know from my website, my passion is photographing flowers* and sharing them with you. I find the flowers I photograph in both my garden and cutting garden, along the road and in meadows, and in friends' gardens. I also plan special trips to visit the many beautiful botanical gardens and arboretums all over the country. Tomorrow’s flower is from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbrid...
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