Category Archives: My Garden
A BOUQUET FROM MY CUTTING GARDEN
August 18, 2015
I have a big smile on my face as I write this post, as I just came in from picking my first bouquet of flowers from my cutting garden! I’m delightfully surprised with how this first bouquet came together. It’s not a bouquet of a florist design and high-end flowers by any means, but it is a bouquet of simplicity and delight, as all I had to do was walk out my back door with my Felco cutters and...
Read MoreMY TRAVELS, MY WORK
July 21, 2015
My floral travels map needs to be updated with a European map to include London, Marlborough (UK) and Paris, along with adding the San Francisco Botanical Garden that I visited this past weekend. With that said, I’m guessing you might be thinking that I live quite the charmed life gallivanting from city to city photographing flowers. I will say that I do believe I have a wonderful life, and I f...
Read MoreWHAT EACH GARDEN BRINGS
July 14, 2015
In case I haven’t mentioned it…I love my perennial and cutting gardens in Vermont: they give me a chance to peruse the flowers and seeds at the local garden centers, plan each garden, play in the dirt, and watch a living painting emerge in our backyard all summer long. Then there are our wildflower gardens we planted last fall in the meadow behind our house, grown from seeds we purchased fr...
Read MoreBUFFALO EYES
July 07, 2015
I’ve had some really outstanding teachers in my lifetime, such as my second grade teacher who made me feel comfortable in a brand new elementary school. My junior high gym teacher truly helped me to believe in myself; to know that there was an athlete inside of me, and I didn’t have to be the last one picked when playing dodgeball. In high school I had a teacher who taught me the nuts and bolt...
Read MoreA BLUEPRINT OF MY CUTTING GARDEN
June 30, 2015
Last week I shared one of the seeds I planted in my cutting garden, Nigella. This week I’m sharing more about the process and layout of my cutting garden itself. My (20 step) process: Select my seeds at the local gardening center (I’m like a kid in a candy store…so many choices and I want them all!) Weed Soil test (okay, maybe next year…) Photograph each seed with its see...
Read MoreA SMALL BLACK SPEC
June 23, 2015
How is it that this small black spec, a seed that I’m holding in the palm of my hand, smaller than the top of a pinhead, will grow to be this flower? How is it that this particular seed is just sown on top of soil, and after 7 to 14 days of water and sunshine this black spec will start to germinate? This tiny dot will start to expand and grow unnoticeable, delicate roots down into the soil to...
Read MoreSMELLING LIKE DIRT
June 16, 2015
Yesterday’s quote by Margaret Atwood perfectly captures my latest Sunday in the garden: In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~ Margaret Atwood ~ As I prepare for a day of gardening, I start the day looking pretty normal with my hair pulled back, sunscreen on, dressed in black shorts and top (for obvious reasons) and standing in my gardening shoes. I grab lots of l...
Read MoreDO I NEED A VASE?
March 31, 2015
I read once that it’s best when giving fresh cut flowers to someone who is hosting a brunch, lunch, dinner or any other type of event at their home to present the flowers in a vase. At first when I read this, I was a little taken aback: now I have to buy a vase too?!? Then I started to think of the course of events when I’ve arrived at someone else’s home with a bouquet and not always receiv...
Read MoreGROWING 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. ...
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