by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Nov 7, 2020 | Business, Happening on a Flower Farm with Lisa Mason Ziegler
Have we met? My name is Lisa Mason Ziegler, welcome! It is so great to connect with you here. I’m an urban flower farmer, teacher, author, and online course publisher. My little business has gone through so much change and growth in the past 22 years that I can...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Apr 11, 2019 | Grandma’s Garden
The worker bees of Grandma’s Garden are busy bringing this garden to life. The cool-season peas and beets are on their way to bringing bounty and we have all kinds of warm-season plants hitting the ground running. Spring is turning out to be extra special on the farm...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Apr 1, 2019 | Shade Garden
Located just beyond the backdoor in my cozy shade garden are the superstars of spring, my Hellebore patch. This garden lays at the foot of our family Saucer Magnolia tree, often called a tulip tree. Stevie’s grandparents planted the tree about 50 years ago and I began...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Feb 12, 2019 | Grandma’s Garden
…where more than vegetables will be growing. Grandma’s Garden was inspired by one very special woman, my mother-in-law Ruby Ziegler. She is the most extraordinary and most hospitable person I’ve ever met. (And an amazing cook!) Something so rare in modern...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jan 24, 2019 | Stories and Such
Suzanne and I had the wonderful opportunity to visit this magical place called Flower Camp back in 2005. Flower Camp was owned and created by Nancy Ross Hugo, an author, amazing flower arranger, and was the longtime garden writer for the Richmond-Times Dispatch....
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jan 23, 2019 | Stories and Such
The gardening love story that began in Cool Flowers and continues… Excerpts from Cool Flowers: My journey to flower farming reads almost like a gardening love story. Growing flowers and living what I consider “the good life” of faith, family, and...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jun 18, 2017 | Flower Farming, Happening on a Flower Farm with Lisa Mason Ziegler
When folks learn what my chosen work is their response is normally, I’d love to come see your garden. Thus, the once a year Open Farm event was born several years ago. My little urban cut-flower farm has been a “working farm” for 20 years. This means that I get up 5...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Apr 7, 2017 | Farm Dogs
I’ve known Beri since she was a pup. Steve and I are honored and thrilled to become the keepers of this special girl. Living a more serene, slower life on our flatland should lead to green pastures for Beri and for us. Beri is an 8 1/2 year old retired show and...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jan 11, 2017 | Farm Dogs
Here in our little southeastern corner of Virginia, we don’t often get what we call “big snow.” Anything over an inch just about immobilizes us. So, the twelve inches we received this past Saturday really put the whammy on us. But in spite of it all, I am ever so...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Dec 30, 2016 | Critters in the Garden
Our lineup of Christmas birdhouse gifts that Steve made for our families. A project we are getting serious about this year on the farm is our birdhouses. Birdhouses have been a real tradition here on the Ziegler homestead. Steve’s grandfather was a real bird lover and...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Dec 5, 2016 | Stories and Such
In the fall of 2015 we installed a 550 foot border of native plants on the west side of our cut-flower farm. It’s intention was to screen the coming housing development that would soon surround us and to welcome displaced wildlife and provide what they needed to...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Nov 17, 2016 | Stories and Such
As I was rooting around in my garden today, I was struck by just how much my gardening cup overflows. There are so many plants on my farm that have been gifted to me over the years and they each brought along their own stories. I am ever so thankful for each and every...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | May 20, 2016 | Critters in the Garden
The Hawk building his nest. Related story: Inviting Native Plant Border, courtesy Daily Press. The Hertzler farm is a 40 acre farm that was unintentionally developed into a native plant and wildlife refuge. Oliver Hertzler’s care and maintenance of the farm and...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Dec 17, 2015 | Flower Farming
I recently spent a Saturday on my urban farm doing some last minute garden chores before winter sets in (if in fact it is coming this year!) As it turns out, it was perhaps one of my most frustrating days I’ve spent in the garden in a long time. Let me explain. First,...
