Moose Meadow Flowers

12/24/2024

Merry Christmas Eve from our family to yours!

12/24/2024

Merry Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! Look what my sister got me: wooden Monarch Butterfly earrings!❤️🌸🦋
(Please ignore the make up - my 8 year old got a make up kit and we gave each other make overs)

12/19/2024

Today’s flower arrangement was made with the fresh greenery I picked yesterday (the Hellebores were a bit too wilted so they are in another vase trying to perk up) and some dried flowers. Not too shabby!

12/17/2024

I just harvested these flowers, this foliage and red berries from my yard in southern New Hampshire. It’s December 17, 2024. That’s pretty wild to me 🤯

12/07/2024

We will be at Darrah Pond with Dried Flower Ornaments made by Alex and Olivia (flowers grown and dried by Stacy) 🌸. We will also have Hot Cocoa and Chocolate Chunk Cookies from as well as inexpensive holiday/light up items for kiddos (as craft fair can be $$$) 🎄 Cheers!

11/27/2024

One of my notoriously early Hellebores (aka: lentin roses) is already blooming!

11/19/2024

Olivia had a blast making this video. She is an (almost) 8 year old seed saving guru! ❤️🌸

11/15/2024

I foraged this and made an arrangement in the pot between my garage doors. Most of this came from my parents yard - except the holly berries ❤️ Stay tuned as I will be updating the urns at the Litchfield library too!

11/12/2024

Think twice before you rake, mow, and blow this year. Luna Moths, butterflies and other invertebrates rely on fallen leaves and other organic debris to cover and insulate them from the elements.
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Think twice before you rake, mow, and blow this year. Invertebrates rely on fallen leaves and other organic debris to cover and insulate them from the elements. Whatever your landscape, you can ensure that resources for nests and overwintering habitat are available.

11/11/2024

11/10/2024

Aaron Cutler Memorial Library, Litchfield, NH

11/07/2024

It’s November 7th and having hardy perennials putting on their second show of the year this late is simply amazing! And the greenery is a volunteer from an annual grown this spring. The more you grow the more grows by itself ❤️

11/02/2024

Hi folks! A reminder about tomorrow’s plant swap in Litchfield: the soil is warm and there is plenty of time to get perennials in the ground. I just planted some over at GMS today ❤️

As a reminder, I’ll be there doing some fall gardening in the Aaron Cutler Memorial Library, Litchfield, NH’s garden beds. If anyone wants to help during the plant swap - bring your gardening gloves, snips and hori hori knives.

I’ll also be on hand to answer any questions folks have about their garden plants or the new Seed Library, etc.

Stop by and swap your plants or come by for the whole time, 1-3pm and socialize with our fun group of like minded folks. And be sure to dress for the weather - it will be in the 50s, a true autumn day!

10/29/2024

Dropped off a new seed library to our towns library. Stacy made the stand and seed packets (so far) and she and Olivia have collected the seeds. Alex has helped with the foxglove seeds - those are coming soon!

10/28/2024

This is the plan - just 1 or 2 trees. I want to have this growing here in New Hampshire too! Started the project this year. Time to bundle them in for winter (just babies now).

10/28/2024

Good morning from my fur babies and I - the dried marigold garland is still hanging in the window ❤️

10/28/2024

Lots of planning and preparation goes into next season. While the spring flowers were blooming and being harvested and I was planting out summer crops and getting drip irrigation going, etc…I was ordering spring flowers for next season. My bulb orders have been arriving. Some will be planted in the fall (think tulips and alliums) while others will be planted this spring - like these ranunculus and anemone corms.
If you aren’t familiar with ranunculus…they are a but labor intense, requiring the octopus-looking corm to be soaked and pre-sprouted before planting out into the “field”. I’ll do the same with the anemone corms but I do tend to leave these in the growing and see what ones come back where the ranunculus must be dug up and stored over winter because they will not survive our climate. Both bloom in the cooler temps of spring to early summer. And ranunculus has amazing vase life and looks like a rose without thorns.