Month: November 2022

it is officially the end of the season, and for that I am quite relieved. It has been a long season, starting in mid February and ending just a few weeks ago, but now alas (yippee!) the growing season of 2022 is behind me.

I must say thank you to all of you have supported my flower passion. To those of you who came and got flowers, to those that would send me encouraging emails I can not thank you enough and your support means everything to me.

We are going to take a break for a few weeks. Give you all a chance to get a break from me. We are off on a well needed rest and vacation and will return mid December. Then I will be back, full of vim and vigor, ready to leap into January seed sowing for those hardy flowers, then fingers crossed tulips mid February and so on and so forth. 2023 will be another fun, flower filled year so stayed tuned.

So, until mid December, enjoy your break from me. Until then, Allie

I think I can, I think I can. With Wednesday’s looming plowable snow forecast It will get it done, or not. I am sooo close to finishing up. The dahlias are all planted, the tulips are all planted, the cover crop has been mowed, and almost all the flowers have been cut down except for the chrysanthemums that the honey bees and pollinators are all over and I can’t bring myself to cut them down until the season is truly over.

So what am I going to do with all my “spare time”? I will be making some dried bouquets that I will have for pick up if you are interested. I have some really beautiful farm grown flowers and grasses to adorn your space many of which you have seen hanging from the ceiling of the flower shed. If you want to create you own, just let me know so I can get the assortment ready for your perusal. Just drop me an email and I will have what you want ready for you. I think it will be pretty cool to do something different with my flowers.

My other cool project is that on Instagram, @flowersatlottarock I am now challenging myself to do a windowsill arrangement every Thursday. I chose Thursday because it seems the only day that I have time to be creative and not rushing from one place or another.

I need to work on the windowsill a bit more, it still has builder’s gunk on it but these were the flowers I harvested last Tuesday. And no, they aren’t arranged, it is just how I had gathered them in the garden.

I am loving the season extension that the chrysanthemums are giving me. I have been getting flowers almost a month after the flower shed closed for the season. Not enough to convince me to extend the shed any longer in the season, but will still be willing to do special flowers until there is no more. But then, I will have dried flowers on call, and holiday bouquets…next year.

Until next week. Allie

Here we are. November, and this weekend has felt like mid August, with the warm temperatures and the high humidity. Not that I am complaining because it has been a pleasure to be able to work in the gardens without 16oo layers on to stay warm. The plants might be confused, but hopefully they will adjust.

It has been a busy week here at the farm. My friend Gary has been helping me on my mailing system. Hopefully I have transcribed all of you addresses correctly and you will be getting these emails…no more google, hopefully but a proper mail server, or whatever they are called.

That was painful office work, and for fun I finished planting the last of the in-ground tulips. All 3000 of them are hopefully tucked in and they won’t be bothered by the rodents. They were my hair pulling last spring. That the the temperatures in the 70’s and 80’s early May. That was NOT fun. Soon it will be a new year and new flower growing experiences.

My other great hurrah is all the dahlias have been gotten ready for storage. I don’t divide the tubers now, I leave that lovely chore for spring. But each variety is labeled and put in it’s own tulip bag, (which I have an abundance of), then into plastic storage boxes and this year they are being stored in the cooler with the tulips. They both need to be about at the same temperatures so this saves me from having to haul the heavy crates down into the basement.

Now with those two huge projects behind me I can now focus on getting the rest of the flower beds put away, the peonies planted, the leaves mulched, last year’s leaves on the garden beds, THEN, I can start cleaning up the house gardens. I do feel as though I have made great headway.

Until next week. Allie