I love this! And your balcony garden is looking so lovely! I used to grow flowers on top of my gravel driveway and it was one of my all time favorite growing spaces. Looking forward to reading more. Side note: have you seen Monty’s bulb garden table on gardeners world? He just did a bulb lasagna in a recent airing and I can’t wait to try one myself. Glad I came across your page!
Thank you, and I'm so happy to have found your blog, too! I used to live in Asheville (super briefly) and love it there--hope you're doing ok after the floods
I did see Monty's bulb garden table--I made sure to watch that part of Gardener's World extra carefully :) I meant to make a lot of bulb lasagnas but only made one, because it turns out you need great big pots for three layers of bulbs? I have a couple of sad two layer ones, too, so fingers crossed
I'm glad you were able to experience Asheville, even for just a bit! I've noticed there's a bit of an informal Brooklyn + Asheville pipeline living here! And thank you for saying so, we're okay and one of the lucky ones. Tending to the farm has been so grounding through it all.
And yes! Although, saw that he did a smaller bulb lasagna with some smaller bulbs. I'm sure it will be lovely. fingers crossed.
Oh, I'm not surprised at all! There's a bit of a similar feeling between Brooklyn and West Asheville (though Asheville also reminded me of my very favorite city I've lived in, Portland, Oregon--both great gardening cities!)
Glad you were ok during the storms and that you can be back at work on the farm!
So happy to hear you were able to hangout with the fam. It was also wonderful to hear Fall was cooperating in the Park. I often hear how the Fall leaves can sometimes come and go in the matter of a week due to bad weather, like hard rains, winds, etc. It'll come through and knock all the leaves out of the trees. Then you're left with branches.
Your Autumn Garden looks to be coming along and I have to agree about that Tip-Top Apricot jammy. WAY BETTER than Gowanus Green could even hope to be. Seems a perfect candidate for pressing, no? I'm curious, do the petals lose their color at all when you press them? Also, how have the plants you brought indoors been doing?!
Very much looking forward to your post on next years plans! The wait will be tough, but I do love the feeling when you have new ideas to try out. May Spring come quickly this year <3
Sorry, Jason! I've been in a post-election slump, so behind on catching up with comments. :(
Anyhow the fall is still so nice here! Which has something to do with this drought we're in--probably a lot more leaves on the trees right now than normal since we haven't had a good storm in a while, but it's so nice. I really like early winter, weirdly enough, but, yeah, the branches everywhere are no fun :(
So I think that the petals on the pressed flowers do lose their coloring when you take them out of the press/expose them to light, so I still have all of the pressed flowers still hiding in the dark. The really light-colored flowers don't look great, honestly, but the really really dark purple/almost black viola will probably hold out the best.
And I'm with you on wanting spring to come! I love Christmas, but I'm already bored with not enough gardening chores to do, ha ha
Awwww, thank you, Rhi. No worries at all. I completely understand.
Too bad elections couldn't take place around Springtime. You'd be able to tend to all your little buds, there would be flowers blooming, birds singing, and sunny skies—everything a post-election slump needs. I hope you can wiggle out of it sooner rather than later.
Ha ha, there's really something to that idea! Definitely would help to have better weather for gardening/being outside right now. Holidays usually are pretty cheerful, so there's that at least. :)
I love this! And your balcony garden is looking so lovely! I used to grow flowers on top of my gravel driveway and it was one of my all time favorite growing spaces. Looking forward to reading more. Side note: have you seen Monty’s bulb garden table on gardeners world? He just did a bulb lasagna in a recent airing and I can’t wait to try one myself. Glad I came across your page!
Thank you, and I'm so happy to have found your blog, too! I used to live in Asheville (super briefly) and love it there--hope you're doing ok after the floods
I did see Monty's bulb garden table--I made sure to watch that part of Gardener's World extra carefully :) I meant to make a lot of bulb lasagnas but only made one, because it turns out you need great big pots for three layers of bulbs? I have a couple of sad two layer ones, too, so fingers crossed
I'm glad you were able to experience Asheville, even for just a bit! I've noticed there's a bit of an informal Brooklyn + Asheville pipeline living here! And thank you for saying so, we're okay and one of the lucky ones. Tending to the farm has been so grounding through it all.
And yes! Although, saw that he did a smaller bulb lasagna with some smaller bulbs. I'm sure it will be lovely. fingers crossed.
Oh, I'm not surprised at all! There's a bit of a similar feeling between Brooklyn and West Asheville (though Asheville also reminded me of my very favorite city I've lived in, Portland, Oregon--both great gardening cities!)
Glad you were ok during the storms and that you can be back at work on the farm!
"Gowanus Canal Green" What a smell, hahahahaha!
So happy to hear you were able to hangout with the fam. It was also wonderful to hear Fall was cooperating in the Park. I often hear how the Fall leaves can sometimes come and go in the matter of a week due to bad weather, like hard rains, winds, etc. It'll come through and knock all the leaves out of the trees. Then you're left with branches.
Your Autumn Garden looks to be coming along and I have to agree about that Tip-Top Apricot jammy. WAY BETTER than Gowanus Green could even hope to be. Seems a perfect candidate for pressing, no? I'm curious, do the petals lose their color at all when you press them? Also, how have the plants you brought indoors been doing?!
Very much looking forward to your post on next years plans! The wait will be tough, but I do love the feeling when you have new ideas to try out. May Spring come quickly this year <3
Sorry, Jason! I've been in a post-election slump, so behind on catching up with comments. :(
Anyhow the fall is still so nice here! Which has something to do with this drought we're in--probably a lot more leaves on the trees right now than normal since we haven't had a good storm in a while, but it's so nice. I really like early winter, weirdly enough, but, yeah, the branches everywhere are no fun :(
So I think that the petals on the pressed flowers do lose their coloring when you take them out of the press/expose them to light, so I still have all of the pressed flowers still hiding in the dark. The really light-colored flowers don't look great, honestly, but the really really dark purple/almost black viola will probably hold out the best.
And I'm with you on wanting spring to come! I love Christmas, but I'm already bored with not enough gardening chores to do, ha ha
Awwww, thank you, Rhi. No worries at all. I completely understand.
Too bad elections couldn't take place around Springtime. You'd be able to tend to all your little buds, there would be flowers blooming, birds singing, and sunny skies—everything a post-election slump needs. I hope you can wiggle out of it sooner rather than later.
Ha ha, there's really something to that idea! Definitely would help to have better weather for gardening/being outside right now. Holidays usually are pretty cheerful, so there's that at least. :)