I consider today the sweetest day of the season, I cut the very first zinnias of 2013 just now on my evening walk. The first to bloom this year is my personal favorite, the mini Oklahoma Zinnia. These petite beauties are what you will find on my kitchen table all...
My Dad always says this to me when he calls and I spill off all we are doing here, isn't this what you wanted? he asks.... Last Thursday Suzanne, Bobo, Susan and I started harvesting at 6am, got all done but the Lisianthus by lunch, stopped ate a bite and had our...
July is so full of flowers! The heat is bringing them on loud and clear. We are continuing to have rain as it is needed, and conveniently it comes in the afternoon or at night. Hard to believe we are beginning to plant for fall harvest. The dahlias are starting and...
We are heading into high season here at the end of June. We are knee deep in: zinnias, ageratum, plume celosia, cockscombs, grasses, rudbeckias, false queen annes lace, feverfew, sweet william, and the lisianthus is on the verge of starting! Oh yeah, and the lilies...
All seems very quiet here right now. We are kinda of in between spring and summer harvests- we have flowers, but nothing like what we will have a month from now. Planting done for now and our second seed starting round is well on its way- they babies are over 2-3"...
We also grow tulips for spring cut flowers in large containers (bulb crates) left outside all winter with little to no care. Growing tulips as cut flowers is easy. You will be surprised how beautiful homegrown tulips are and how long they last after harvesting....
It has begun- I have planted over 5000 plants with many many more to come. The garden looks so neat and orderly that I almost love it as much as I do when it is full of flowers! The temperatures here in southeastern Virginia are finally warm enough to start planting...
My Thursday harvest this week was starting to be pretty trying--it had pounded rain the night before so the flowers are wet, the weatherman said no more showers likely-ha! So I was harvesting those things that the sun had already started to work on and would...
I feel like we are finally in flower season here. Beds are full and blooms are everywhere. Zinnias The sight of so many beds of zinnias in bloom are keeping my spirits lifted. Zinnias are one of the few flowers that are left to go to full bloom before harvesting- once...
