It is funny, I was doing an instagram post last Friday for the flowers I was taking to the Hancock Market and I looked at the bunches of flowers ready to go and said, “these are not your typical flower bouquets.” The flowers I grow are not typical for the most part, but they are the flowers that I like to grow and use. The Eremurus (Foxtail lily), Kniphofia (red hot poker), the sweet peas (that I wasn’t going to grow), and other really cool plants will be available in the flower shed this year. I like the challenge of growing the odd flowers, I like the challenge of making a bouquet using some of these flowers and I hope you enjoy them as well. And I want to thank you for allowing me to follow my passion.
Besides the unusuals, the usuals are starting to rock in. The snapdragons, rudbeckia, and zinnias are rocking in, the filler is looking good and there are plenty of flowers. I have been harvesting buckets of sweet peas, I still have peonies, well, you can tell from this what is being harvested at the moment.
I have sown cover crop onto the two new beds that I will hopefully be putting into production this fall with more peonies, which apparently I can’t have enough of, and bearded iris. The bed inside the garden fence has germinated, but I keep finding weird places whee the buckwheat is germinating. Thank you chipmunks. The bed outside the fence is being enjoyed by the free ranging guinea birds. They have both germinated but I am no longer watering them because I must save my water for the flowers, so those beds will be what they will be. Any cover crop is good I tell myself.
The dahlias have had their first course of coralling. I am trying a new method this year. Not happy with it right now, so I will redo it on Tuesday so it will work better for me.
I have been told on numerous occasions over the last few seasons of the open flower shed that “I am not good at arranging or picking out the correct flowers that go together” and as I said on Friday, It is what makes you happy. It is not a contest, and you are not being judged. It is what ever makes you happy, and you being happy with local, flowers, that fills me with great joy. Thank you.
Until next week. Allie