Black Fingers

11/08/2022

🐸 Look up in the sky tonight as we all watch the same full moon rise around the globe (and across the ages and species) 🌚♾🍄

The Full Moon by any other name... Corn Moon (Algonquin, Ojibwe), Harvest Moon (Dakota), and Ricing Moon (Anishinaabe) signify that this is the time to gather maturing crops. Along the same vein, the Assiniboine people named this period Black Cherries Moon, referring to when chokecherries become ripe. Sturgeon Moon referred to the time when sturgeon were most easily caught.

Historically, in cultures all around the world, our ancestors would use the draw and pull of the moon (which cause tides, sap, essential oils and overall strength of plants to be on the rise) to harvest and preserve the best plants possible to preserve for teas, tinctures, salves, ointments, essential oils, balms etc.

Leave time for steppin' out to enjoy a night of full moon revelry tonight friends...and don't forget to watch for the Perseid meteor showers too! The Heirloom Gardener - John Forti

02/08/2022

I'm used to having tons of hummingbirds around but this was a first for me! The little one came to sample the gooseneck loosestrife and just couldn't resist diving into the hose spray for a bath! They made three little trips under the water stream, stopping to rest and preen in a honeysuckle bush in between each one, then took off in a bee line for the meadow.
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28/07/2022

When you've got a delivery to make and it's too big for your preschooler's 5 point harness car seat 😂

The infobooth flowers have been installed! Nice to spend some time on site yesterday.

27/07/2022

Board game nerd for scale.
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I don't usually arrange my harvest buckets but this was so fun to work at this scale! Every side is different and there isn't an angle I could find that I don't like.

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27/07/2022

Festival flowers for Blue Skies Music Festival!

How lovely to be up early for a proper big harvest today!

These flowers will be adorning the Infobooth along with the twinkle lights at Blue Skies Music Festival this weekend.

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15/07/2022

Bless this mess.
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It's hard to not be selling bouquets, and connecting and sharing with new customers, and growing in fun and flashy ways.

But it is also good to rest.

There is peace here. There is reward also in building the soil, and getting new beds and pathways dug, and saving more blooms for seed storage, and more blooms next year.

So if you needed permission to rest, for a little or a long while....
If rest was not your plan right now...
This is your sign.

It is ok to rest.

A fallow season is not wasted.
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12/07/2022

Summer colours!
Did you know that these snapdragons actually have a distinctive smell??
You'll never guess what it is though!
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11/07/2022

Getting some long overdue work in on weeding and mulching the garden path today.
*happy sigh*

09/07/2022

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07/07/2022

Gosh I will never get tired of the beautiful bold contrast of purple larkspur next to bright orange calendula! Both of them are entirely self seeded this year with a surprised appearance of "earl grey" larkspur, which never showed up for me at all last year when I planted it! 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️😂

Plus a few other pretties because, well obviously. 😘

Happy summer, loves.
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07/07/2022

A few pretties from the flower patch on this perfect summer evening.
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What's blooming in your beds?

06/07/2022

One of my favourite wild pretties. I mean... just look at those colours!!
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29/06/2022

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"Forsythia" from my new poetry collection Love Notes from the Hollow Tree by Jarod K. Anderson.

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Forsythia

As forsythia grows tall,
its branches bend beneath their own weight,
bowing to the ground in arches of yellow flowers.

Wherever they touch the earth,
the branches root again and send up new shoots,
stitching gold across the landscape.

Some new kinds of knowledge shift our center of gravity,
staggering us,
bending us low beneath the burden.

If you think of your worldview as a stone tower,
this shift is a cataclysm of splintered rock.

If your worldview is forsythia,
then every startling truth that bends you low becomes a new connection to the earth,
a new way to stand,
an invitation to grow.

We live in a time of strong wind and sudden pressure.
It is not an age for towers.

It’s an age for stubborn flowers.

26/06/2022

My little camping bouquet held up well over Night. I love these colours! Colorado yarrow, husker red penstemon and alpha calendula. 👌

Also: it has been such a hard realization that flower farming is not really happening this year (😭💔😭) with my severe brain fog and executive dysfunction and medications not working, but it is still so wonderful to just always have flowers for me, for our friends, just because. If you have room for a little patch of cutting flowers or have been wondering if you should start snipping from your prized perennials - DO IT. Flowers in the home are magic.
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12/06/2022

It’s rainy and gloomy outside… but inside?
The dehydrator is warm and whirring and the house is filled with the smell of drying peony petals.
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These will be used for all kinds of things like potpourri, clothing sachets, bath soaks and crafting.

What’s your rainy day activity?

11/06/2022

Deadheading peonies.
Can you smell this photo??
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09/06/2022

08/06/2022

Wow do I love this palette!!
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Sooooo dreamy!

Mixed bouquets are available!
Small $15
Large $20
Peony posies $20
And of course
Fresh organic rhubarb $5/lb

DM to order!

08/06/2022

Gosh I love this time of year!

Armloads of fresh flowers all over the house before heading to the cellar to cool and hydrate.

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Also - can you tell I love purple?
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07/06/2022

Rainy day blues.
Hot coffee, a smokey fire to keep the mosquitoes away, cool weather just perfect for working outside(not to mention baby wearing!), a deep drink for the plants and seedlings, and beautiful bunches of meadow sage ready to bring inside for drying.

A very good day.
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07/06/2022

Southern charm Verbascum.
I had a crush on this plant for YEARS before I was able to find seed and start my own, so it’s so satisfying to me to see them establishing SO well now in their third year. like lupins, I want them EVERYWHERE!

They’re just so stunning a photo doesn’t even do them justice- but sadly as a cut flower they tend to shatter and drop petals which some folks find messy and are not a fan of (although personally I still love them no matter what, and adore bringing them into my home)

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What do YOU think?? Worth it, or nah??

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06/06/2022

Sooo much goodness packed into this birthday bouquet!

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PM to order yours!

Small mixed bouquets $15
Large mixed bouquets $20
Peony posies $20

Annnd …. Less photogenic but so, so delicious… We also have fresh organic rhubarb for $5lb while quantities last!

06/06/2022

It’s baaaa-aaack!

Fresh organic rhubarb.
Cut to order.
Trimmed rinsed and bagged.
$5 per lb.
PM to order!

What’s your favourite rhubarb recipe?
Mine is rhubarb gin!
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05/06/2022

I will never not love coming home to that light.

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01/06/2022

Soft bumble, warm bumble, little ball of fuzz! Happy bumble, sleepy bumble, buzz buzz buzz!

18/05/2022

An ode to spring.
Lilac
Apple blossoms
Golden currant
Dicentra
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16/05/2022

It’s that time of year.
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Actually, there’s usually even more plants and seedlings on the porch by now. 😂

16/05/2022

Buzz buzz buzzz….
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I’m always so grateful for the thoughtful planning that went into the gardens before we got here. We are truly spoiled with such an abundance of pollinator magnets, and wildlife food and habitat and several different micro ecosystems - all packed into less than 2 acres.

This purple crab apple creates a beautiful microclimate that keep our front yard cool. It’s covered with pollinators and beneficial insects until the blossoms fall. Then small apples that are just perfect for cider or pies. And it holds those apples right through winter, drawing huge flocks of cedar waxwings and other birds too as a reliable food source.

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15/05/2022

Some of last years dahlias ready to get their feet in the soil.
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