But for the most part you would never know it. What strange weather. Cold, damp, with just nuisance rain, enough to get your feet soaking wet, but not enough to water the plants which just is not kind. Then a few days scattered of wicked hot weather. Neither the plants or I know what to do, It’s a farmer’s lot. We just need to be prepared for anything.
The peonies are beautiful this year. Spring has been cool, see that is a good thing, so the flowers have come on slowly, and most of the varieties have been harvested and are in storage so I can have peonies for you for many weeks yet. The sweet peas are coming on quite nicely and I have harvested the first bunch. Joining the harvest now are the foxgloves, feverfew, geum, phlox, dianthus Icelandic poppies and just so much more. The flower shed is a riot of color and fragrances.
Most of the garden is planted now, I just have a few things to go in yet, then the woodies…but at the moment and for quite a while now, watering and harvesting will be taking up most of the flower time.
Until next month when I need to start sowing the perennial seeds and the dirty room will become dirty again.
There isn’t much else to report this week. Harvesting, watering, harvesting, watering, but that is all good because I am producing some stunning flowers, if I must say so.
So every Friday afternoon I make a bouquet for myself. I put it in a go cup and take it to the lake where it gives me such happiness, then Sunday afternoon it comes back to the farm where I can enjoy it for the rest of the week. since I spaced #windowframethursday this last week I am sharing this week’s bouquet.
Until next week. Allie