Next week, after a restful holiday with family and friends, I'll be back in the flower studio. So looking forward to working on our winter meadow wreaths and tea tin centerpieces for you!
Until then, blessings as you prepare for and enjoy your own Thanksgiving holiday. May it be filled with your favorite foods, much laughter, and deep conversations shared with the people you love.
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Just a few of our flower subscription arrangements that made their way into your hands this week. Featuring queen lime red zinnias, sunfill green sunflowers, Henry Eilers rudbeckia & more.
Sign ups for 2024 flower subscriptions open Tuesday, August 29, at 9 a.m.
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Now is the time to go out and harvest your lunaria! It takes patience to peel every single pod and uncover the lovely silvery layer inside, but so worth the effort.
Save seeds and scatter them now.
You'll see new plants next summer, with blooms and seed pods the following year.
Lunaria puts all it's short life's energy into making thousands of seeds, then the two-year process starts again.
For a continuous harvest of lunaria, scatter seeds two consecutive years. It likes the wild places, between the back of the garage and the fence, along the edge of the forest, in the ditch near the road, in the overgrown garden.
Are you local and need seeds? Let me know.
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Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate. Also known as persicria orientalis (by those with a scientfic flair), lady's fingers and princess feathers. Once one of the most popular flowers in a cottage garden, all the rage for a good three hundred years in europe then here in the states and dearly loved by the Victorians, now so uncommon that I'd never seen it in person until I started seeds and watched it grow in my own garden.
Give me a flower with a poetical name any day. And if it's vibrant pink and dances in the slightest breeze, all the better.
And because I'm a bit poetical myself, I planted it right next to the cutting flower garden gate.
This beauty is known to grow seven to ten feet tall in just one season. Mine hasn't towered over the garden gate yet, but that may be because I keep harvesting it for use in flower gatherings.
I like to grow strange things; flowers and seed pods and foliage that maybe you've never seen. And the best of what's blooming in my strange and wonderful little garden goes out to our flower subscribers each week.
So if you'd like to sign up for a 2023 flower subscription, sales open in our online flower shop on August 22 at 9 a.m. Check back here in two weeks if unique, unexpected flowers are as important to you as they are to me.
Also, curious minds must know: have you ever grown kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate? Or had the luck to see it blooming somewhere?
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Your weekly dose of summer joy!
Our jam jar arrangements: a lot of beauty in a little vessel. This jam jar features oklahoma salmon zinnias, cherry caramel phlox, sun-fill purple sunflowers, lisianthus, strawflower, a poppy pod, and more.
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What's this?
A fantastic stocking stuffer.
Perfect for including in a special Christmas card.
Our Twig End Farm pre-paid flower punch cards are redeemable for three, five, or ten of our much-loved jam jar arrangements and can be used when flowers are blooming, anytime from May to early-October. Punch cards never expire.
To give the gift of local flowers this holiday season, follow the link in the comments below.
Punch cards can be combined with Twig End Farm lunaria holiday bulbs, making the sweetest gift set.
Love supporting small, local, women-owned businesses around the holidays? Me too. 🖤
Here's another reel for you. This time the background music is the sweet tinkling of my neighbor's wind chimes. Nothing sounds like summer to me more than birdsong and wind chimes.
This past weekend, I had the pleasure to create a flower crown for a beautiful mother-to-be. This crown features strawflowers, tufted echinacea pods, sedum, celosia, lisianthus, hydrangea and more. Thank you, friend, for the immense privilege to help celebrate new life with flowers from our gardens.
Flower crowns are perfect for weddings, bridal and baby showers, for photography events, and even to take an average day from ordinary to extraordinary.
Available in adult and child sizes, each crown is unique and reflects what's currently blooming at Twig End. To order, and for more information, please visit our online store.
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