Flower Forecast: Lilies
Dear all: It’s Valentine’s weekend, and while I arrange roses from the Portland wholesale market I’m daydreaming about my own […]
Giving thanks for the harvest
I thought about giving thanks as I mulled over Fall arrangements for 2022, and decided I couldn’t do better than […]
WOW. Mother’s Day Recap/Thank You!
Locally grown flowers were more popular than ever in Lewis County on Mother's Day 2022
Ranunculus for Mother’s Day
Woodbine Flowers’ Mother’s Day bouquets have featured ranunculus for the last four years.
Flower forecast: Poppies return
Icelandic poppies are just starting to bloom in the Pacific Northwest.
April Showers, Easter Flowers
This week in honor of Easter, Woodbine Flowers bouquets are a little bigger and dressed up with a bit of […]
Valentine’s Day Approacheth
Dear all – I like my flowers best. But my flowers don’t grow in February, and every year I don’t […]
Spring before we know it …
spring always comes -
Big-leaf maple flowers
A Northwest native, the big-leaf maple – 50 to 150 feet tall, with plate-sized leaves – is hard to miss. […]
Double Tulip Colors
Double tulips don’t behave like the single Easter-egg tulips we all know best. Unlike singles, they expand, change, and preen […]
Gloves for foxes
These imposing but delicate flower towers, often four feet tall and more...
Sweet peas tamed
The British have been cordoning sweet peas for cut flowers since the 1910’s.
Bugs and flowers
Bugs. You can’t grow flowers without em. There’s the bugs you love, and the bugs you love to hate.
farmstand flowers for March 29th – Balm of Gilead
I remember my first Northwest spring. Every walk became a search for the source of a mysterious and captivating scent, […]
It’s Spring – lambs and flowers time
Meet Dot. She’s a big fan of local flowers (for breakfast) and the smallest lamb we’ve had here. She’s a […]
flowers in snow
Yesterday we battened down the hatches – covering everything in the high tunnels with frost blanket, winterproofing the chickens and […]