Frost on the barn roof this morning– oh my!

For a special someone.

For our mantle and for the front desk at work. (I bring a fresh bouquet each Monday.)

Ninebark, Abelia, Loropetalum chinense (Fringe flower), Euonymous kiautschovicus, Salvia officinalis ‘Purpurascens’ (Purple Sage), Rose of Sharon foliage, Zinnias, Veronica, and some mystery purple salvia.

Twenty bouquets this week! (Yes, I couldn’t fit them all on the table.) And I thought the flowers were slowing down…

I am so ready for Flower Power Friday. I picked for a whopping 20 bouquets this morning! (OK. not quite ready; I still need to make the bouquets tonight.)

I was so psyched when I heard that the Ravens drafted Zay FLOWERS…  and that his number is four?  Too easy!

Flower Power

At Flower Power Farmette, I grow flowers and make and sell bouquets as a fundraiser to enable students from Park School, Baltimore City College High School, City Neighbors High School, or the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women to go on Park’s Civil Rights Trip.

I started these posts as part of my recordkeeping (wait, what did well in August?), and have since started sharing with interested folks.

Pictured above: Campanula persicifolia (Peach-leafed bellflower), a new favorite perennial grown from seed this year.

Pictured below: Making new friends in the yard.

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I brought two bouquets with the last of the Euphorbia marginata (Snow on the Mountain) for the season; I’ll miss them! Such a hard-working, long-lasting super trouper filler for bouquets (once I learned to dip the freshly-cut stems in boiling water, that is…)

Some Euphorbia marginata in the side garden from last July

Thursday morning picking

Thursday evening; clean tools…

A powerfully flowerful Friday

Sometime the Rudbeckia mutates, and I love the surprises, like this spidery green bloom.

All picked! (Thursday morning)

All packed… (Thursday night)

Ready for their day — Flower Power Friday!

This morning’s pick

This week’s desk bouquet

A special bouquet for a special someone

[Not a bouquet ;)] And to think it grew from a seed!

A record 16 bouquets today — fingers crossed to sell them all! (Though it’s also fun to give away the ones I don’t sell…)

It was just one week ago that we picked our first ripe tomato.

The chaste tree is just past its fullest glory. The late sun was lighting up the flowers, but then, a rainbow. Or two…

Waiting for this Black Beauty tomato to ripen…

He turned 65 today.

Digging for gold!

I made a dozen bouquets to share with my neighbors. I was so excited to start delivering them that I forgot to photograph the other six.

I finally found plants that will thrive by the AC unit, where they get full shade in the morning and baking full sun in the afternoon — Rudbeckia, Yarrow ‘Cerise Queen’, and Eryngium ‘Blue Glitter’. I’m also cultivating a wall of Big Bluestem grass in hope of keeping the AC unit in shade.

Such abundance in the spring garden —

Tomatoes

Greens and Sweet Peas

Snapdragon and Potatoes

— and I had already put so many of them on the porch floor for safekeeping…

… you come home and find a bale of hay on the porch.

• First daffodil
• Hyacinth
• First Vinca blossom
• First Creeping Phlox bloom
• Allium schubertii
• First Crocus in the yard
• Spring bulbs and Montauk daisy
• First yellow Crocus

The flower harvesting cups are washed and ready to store for the winter. *sigh*