Simply Flowers

This speaks to my future, may it be yours also!

I saw the most amazing Dahlia exhibit at the Heirloom Seed Expo in Santa Rosa this week. Also many great speakers that inspired me to use the best practices for regenerative flower growing! The diversity of the natural world is an endless playground and yet each step we take on the earth needs to be a blessing, each gesture a prayer.

If you live in Santa Rosa come out to the Heirloom Seed Expo! An amazing dahlia exhibit and much more.

Thunderstorm this evening as the sun was going down. I walked through the garden cutting old flowers, and watching the light change. Beautiful. I encountered a little green frog climbing up a flower stalk to catch the rain drops, a caterpillar on the milkweed, ( future monarch?), the quail heading for cover and our king snake in residence crossing the driveway. Eventful evening! Pictures next time.

I saw the most amazing Dahlia exhibit at the Heirloom Seed Expo in Santa Rosa this week. Also many great speakers that inspired me to use the best practices for regenerative flower growing! The diversity of the natural world is an endless playground and yet each step we take on the earth needs to be a blessing, each gesture a prayer.

If you live in Santa Rosa come out to the Heirloom Seed Expo! An amazing dahlia exhibit and much more.

Trying to control nature, we have lost control of it.

The Zinnias are blooming now. Bright and upright. I grow what's called a cactus variety. The petals are more tubular and kinda wiggly, wild and crazy. I like the ones with the old fashion rounded petals also, but they seem a little more uptight.

Last Thursday at the Cotati Farmers Market a man bought a $10. mixed bouquet with sunflowers and lots of other colorful filler flowers and greens. He was pretty decisive about what he wanted. I was going to wrap them but he said not to bother cause he was going to give them to this person over there. I watched as he walked away with the flowers behind his back toward a lady on the other side of the park. When he got close he presented them to her. She gave him a big hug. Flowers at work, pretty sweet!

Sunflowers are really blooming now! I will have lots at the Cotati farmers market this evening!

Sadly the Bachelor Button season is almost over. All of my BBs volunteered this year, and in most of the wrong places, the sunflower beds, the perennial beds and in the garden paths. Alas, it was hard to deny any of them life. Now most of them are going to seed and falling over. To me, there is no other blue as lovely as a the Bachelor Button blue. This year, my BBs came up in pinks, maroons, and lilac as well as blue. Not sure why yet, but I enjoyed the variety! Called cornflowers by many, the latin name is centaurea cyanus. They come from the European continent and found their way to Ireland during the Iron Age where they grew in cultivated fields of grain, thus the name cornflowers.

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A bee stopped by to sample the flowers