2025 Harvest Season!

Sometimes it is easy to see time flying. Other times, time is sneaky and stealthily slips right by without pause.

This summer seems to be one of those times. How did we get to July 18th already? It seems like just yesterday I was struggling with the late cool spring and wondering whether the flowers would even bloom at all. Today? Today I will have no problems filling as many harvest buckets as I take into the field. Today, the flowering plants are almost big enough to fend off the weeds, and everyday brings a new and welcomed face to the flower field. Today, I fear that this summer is so fleeting that fall will be here before we know it.

But I digress. We won't think about fall right now - there is much too much summer to be thinking about! In my past harvest seasons, I have been fabulous at writing weekly newsletters. It has been a steady and predictable part of my growing season. This year, however, nothing seems to be steady or predictable about this growing season. It has been an all out chaotic sort of march from spring straight on thru, and my weekly newsletters have become a bit of a lost cause. So much so, that I think I have convinced myself that the newsletters might take a bit of a hiatus, and I will start to write here on this blog. We'll see how that goes. Hopefully, you find my musings quirky, maybe interesting and filled with all the newsy bits of life at The Garden and as a flower farmer/florist entrepreneur. I have much to fill this blog with, and I do hope you will stick around to see what comes of it!

And just because I can't leave a flower farm blog without a picture of a favourite flower, I leave you with this image of the Liatris - it is blooming here in The Garden now and will be at our on-site bouquet bar this weekend. We'll talk soon!

Debra