Blue Dot Flowers and More

09/21/2024

Sat, September 21 and Blue Dot is open today and all next week. Open until dark.

07/29/2024

I used to love sunflowers because I thought they faced towards the sun. This seemed simple and lovely, a reminder to be positive. The truth is even better. According to a article on NPR by Merrit Kennedy, “A young flower faces east at dawn and greets the sun, then slowly turns west as the sun moves across the sky. During the night, it slowly turns back east to begin the cycle again...The researchers found that the plant’s turning is actually a result of different sides of the stem elongating at different times of day.” It is the growth of the stem that turns the flower. When scientists tied up the flowers so they could not move throughout the day, they found they actually had decreased biomass. This is so much more realistic a metaphor and parallel for life. In times of growth, we are strongest if we can embrace both the light and the dark, more powerfully alive if we can move fluidly between all the emotions that make us human. Sometimes it takes great courage to keep moving when faced with the pitch dark of reality in ourselves and the world around us, but the reward is we can more fully appreciate the brilliance of sun on our face when it occurs.
When sunflowers reach maturity, they stop moving and face east where they can collect the most warmth and sun. We all know what times like this feel like, times when we feel centered, calm, in no rush to go anywhere. This is the prize for the work of moving even when growth is tiring. Unlike sunflowers, humans live long lives. Times of stillness and contentment are fleeting. Perhaps the universal draw of the sunflower is not so much about blind positivity as it is about moving to face both the good and the bad with equal grace, so that we are always growing.
Be the sunflower. Soak up the radiant beauty of all emotions. Move between darkness and light each day trusting a time will come when the light will win.

06/09/2024

Sunday June 9th Open Today
Wonderful mixed bouquets also poppies, sweet pea bunches and a vase of anemone.
We’re near the north Ed of Gilham Rd at 35 Nelson Lane.
Open until 7:00 this evening.

05/31/2024

We’re so excited about a bakery nearby. Jim is a cinnamon roll fan

It’s getting close!!!! At the north end of Gilham. I will be open for a soft opening this Sunday 8am-12pm

Two types of scones
Cinnamon rolls
Cookies
And
Norwegian waffles!

Come and enjoy a neighborhood treat!

🌼come say hi and stop Blue Dot Flowers and More just across the street!🌼

05/30/2024

Thursday afternoon and the stand is open with our garden flowers for sale.
Open to 7:00 and again through Sunday.
And on Sunday morning a special treat: our neighbor will have a new home bakery business open for the first time. Cinnamon rolls have been promised. Look for her sign kitty corner across the road!

05/30/2024

Almost June 2024
BLUE DOT FLOWERS AND MORE
is back!
We won’t be open every day as material from the garden and my energies vary. I can promise that when we are open I will post here so you can see what’s available.
Our neighbor Michael came with Big Blue the tractor and tilled. The soil is perfect this year and I have planted zinnias, bachelor buttons and marigolds so far. Today 10 new dahlias go in. There’s a hedge of sunflowers with row of cosmos in front of it. It’s all sprouting seeds now but my mind’s eye can see the color to come.

04/19/2024

Blue Dot Flowers and More is open today and tomorrow April 19 and 20.
Come get some lilacs in their short season. We’re at 35 Nelson Lane near the north end of Gilham Road.
Our wonderful lilac is a heritage plant here most likely a century old from the original farmstead.
There are a few starts of it available. Inquire here.

10/16/2023

Blue Dot open Monday October I6th
Mixed bouquets and white Dahlia bunches. Open 7:30 to dark.

08/31/2023

Thursday August 31. Loving this steady, misty rain.
Blue Dot is open until dark today and tomorrow Saturday for sure.
Selling blueberries for $4 a box, organic seedless grapes $3 a pound, organic melon $1 a pound and assorted bouquets.

08/22/2023

Come by Tuesday the 22nd until 7. Dahlias by the stem, cherry tomatoes, cantaloupe, peaches and seedless grapes all from our gardens. Open tomorrow, Wednesday also.

08/16/2023

On Thursday 10-6 August 17th
We will sell fresh picked peaches from our neighbors trees at the Blue Dot Flowers And More stand.
Address is 35 Nelson Lane Eugene
Near north end of Gilham Road.
Look for the blue stand and striped awning.
Three pounds for $5. Unsprayed and delicious
Venmo or pick up honor envelope at stand and mail payment.
PLEASE NO CASH AT STAND