the bee book

4/26/2016

new garden pix

I HAVE FOUND a wonderful gardener and friend, Serafin, who has made my garden beautiful by helping me with all the hard stuff. Continuing to encroach on the lawn with plants and shrubbery. :D

4/10/2016

o dear. haw.

SO ALMOST 4 months late again. nevermind. yikes.

i have some great pix coming, and this is not one of them.
Although penisetum 'hameln" is growing here now, out by the mailbox. So pix of my nutty japanese maple and other stuff that is experiencing springtime. :B

1/11/2016

finally christmas

AND I GOT MY blue spruce all dressed up with lights. i need another string, but it's so nice to see it lit up out there, on the corner. :B so probably not taking them off, even tho it's January.

7/01/2015

three month hiatus

I'M NOT TIMELY with blogging. Understatement. I get into a different groove and am suddenly without stories, and yet I'm gardening 10 mos of the year, so 'doh!' :D I guess this is a journal now, more than a blog. All the more reason to be timely. Bizarre heat this late june /early july. 100s+ for about 3 wks --in late june. hmmm. Apologies to anyone listening and enjoy summer.

cluster of cannas

OR, MY CANNA cans, i call them, cuz they are not hardy here. so they all overwinter in their pots in the foundry. I moved them from their former spot so i could plant something else there. Thought it was sorta funny to plop them all in the drive. ;B I'm a garden nerd.

frequent visitor

FOR A MONTH or so, Yellow Monarch has been visiting. Not sure if they migrate like the orange ones who all cluster together, or are part of them. Lovely. and like so many things, endangered...from habitat loss.

4/15/2015

almost May

TULIP "DAYDREAM" starts yellow,
morphs to gorgeous orange pink.

3/16/2015

spring 2015!

GOOD MORNING! haw. anyway -- morning for this year...just finished with some much needed rain. everything is rebooting. some pix today. Terre from roost™ will visit me soon and help me get all of my garden projects done or started. :B Cuz my twinny is now a Certified Landscape Professional. yay!
my first project this spring: prune that big walnut.

9/23/2014

fall is here

first day of autumn! almost my fave time of year. here are flowers i grew and sold at the Taste of Harvest last week.

9/15/2014

goings on!

some exciting stuff going on....
I'm doing a soft opening this weekend at the Taste of the Harvest downtown,
and will be selling a few of my florage® stems and flowers! If you're in the hood, come to the Flicker Farms booth and i will be hanging on their corner. :D More on
florage soon. It's a growing concern, (boo) -- I probably need to grow 3x more flowers
this coming spring. Though the season is ending, I hope to have interesting stems and pix to share,
and also, look for the new florage blog in the next very few weeks.
BEE BOOK will always be about my gardens on the farmlet. But many things I grow here will be incorporated into florage designs. OK. ... an update on the new blog soon!
Happy September,
lore

9/07/2014

a velvet queen

wow! these took off just now. gorgeous.

8/13/2014

last of hollyhox

MY LOVELY HOLLIES. One of the only old fashioned flowers ilike. BUT BLACK ONLY. If i see a pale yellow or sick pink, it's OUTTA HERE. :B

8/01/2014

my farmed flowers

IN EAST WENATCHEE, there are some wonderful folks with big land, who encourage growers to use it. Flicker Farm, the big vegetable market garden on the hillside, is the growing concern of my pals ken & yvette davis. Which is how I discovered the Baguleys, and their generous experiment. I have a little plot right below the Flicker dill patch. So I am starting florage™ this year, with the hope of going to market and florists all summer next year with foliage, flowers, stems and all kinds of stems useful to local florists who want local flowers.