For those of you who watched the last film, you will have noticed that I dropped my keys with a distinctive sounds of keys clinking against each other, right next to a clump of Texas Star blooms! Texas star is a jonquil hybrid botanically known as Narcissus x intermedius. You can see Rebecca filming me [...]
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Where Are My Keys?!
I am so sorry to all of our blog subscribers who only received no text in their e-mails for the blog mailer! As an experiment, I simply posted a video of some old bulbs blooming down a country road, but I did not include any text. This resulted in many of you only receiving the [...]
What People Enjoyed Most From My Talks on Saturday…
Last week many of you know I canceled my trip to San Francisco to speak to a garden club, and my trip to New Braunfels, TX a few days before that was canceled as well. I had the flu. A week of rest gave me just enough time to recover for a visit from my [...]
Spider Lilies in January
If you were wondering what spider lilies (Lycoris radiata) look like in January, take a look at these bulbs that a friend brought by the farm today. It will help show you the size of the bulb and foliage. I didn’t want to stick around too long, so after 3 and a half hours on [...]
Welcome Back to the Old Grind
Call me crazy but one of the best parts of returning from the Christmas holidays is unpacking and settling back into a good old comfortable routine. Not getting back to work mind you, just putting things back in order, and sleeping in your own bed, etc. It does help to take advantage of your Momma’s [...]
December, where did you go?
From shipping Gift Sets and Heirloom Bulbs for Today books, to building shelving, counting inventory, and cleaning out sheds, December has been a flurry of activity! We managed to squeeze in several of our own merry making activities in amongst the demands of the business. Bonfires, trimming a tree we cut down from our backyard, [...]
Books and Porcelains
Ann Swan botanical porcelains just arrived yesterday! This is just the first one I could grab for a photo. Very busy signing books and shipping out Christmas gift sets and books!
Eggnog, Paperwhites, and a Percolator
What do you do when you run out of cream for your coffee in the morning? You use eggnog. Nothing like an added element of holiday cheer to get you going on a day on the farm. Copies of Heirloom Bulbs for Today Book shipping continued today, and we are almost all caught up! I [...]
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