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 […]
Muddy colors
Earl Grey larkspur, Mollie Rilestone sweet peas and Rosanne Brown lisianthus are examples of a floral trend of muted, “muddy,” […]
Sunshine/Rain
We are deep in the dark season right now in the Pacific Northwest. I can’t complain – we’ve actually had […]
Reading flowers –
Humans alter the world around us. Everything we touch and change to fit into our world becomes an artifact. We […]