Last March, we teamed up with the Trinity Trust in a cooperative effort to rescue bulbs from an abandoned lot in Fort Worth slated for a new development project. The president of the Forth Worth Organic Club first told me about the lot filled with campernelles off of Texas State Road 121. She organized her [...]

She said we could dig bulbs. She didn’t tell us she had twelve bulls also.This picture was actually taken just north of the farm, on an old home site.

This winter I had the opportunity of visiting our good friends at “Petals from the Past,” Jason and Shelley Powell. Jason had to rush off to Birmingham to deliver poinsettias, so Shelley and the dog showed me around. As my companion and I drove to Petals from Birmingham, we were passed by a large cow [...]

Tuesday I awoke early in the morning so I could have breakfast with my good friend Jacob in Dallas. I drove back to the farm, where I looked at my calendar and realized I had a speech in Dallas that evening with the Dallas Historical Rose Society (DAHRS). I called Mr. Graves to confirm that [...]

We have some white Roman hyacinths blooming in the field. Some of our first came from the little town of Cameron, Texas. I remember the lady, Mrs. Gonzales, who let us have some. Her father served in World War I. She had some wonderful stories and let us harvest some and replant a row along [...]

Roman hyacinths! How do we tell the difference between the real deal and a Dutch hybrid that has persisted yet lost it’s tight double form? Sometimes we can’t tell, but we do know that if it came from Elizabeth Lawrence’s garden like these pink hyacinths did, we know it’s old. The owner of the home [...]

There were more paperwhite blooms just days ago. That was before the neighborhood cat was hit by a car, buried by the children among the bulbs, and the paperhite blooms picked and laid over the gravesite. Grace allowed the site to be among her flowers at the home she is restoring in Brenham, Texas. Her [...]

It is paperwhite season! There are hundreds of different varieties that were once on the market, and many of them can still be found blooming in old yards around the South. This picture was taken in front of a nice home in Dallas, where paperwhites were combined with white flowered cyclamen. The selection is most [...]