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When the frost comes
The first few weeks of November I had the privilege of partaking in a floral creative online writing class offered by Debra Prinzing of Slow Flowers. What a delight. My goal was to improve my overall writing style without losing my fun, life-loving voice. I feel I achieved my goal. Plus I realized I love to take people on a journey with my writing. Here is a poem I wrote about my mental process when the first hard frost of the season takes my blooms. This year, here in Alaska it happened in late September. When the Frost Comes When the frost comes tipping the morning blooms all icy white. I dash out…
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Growing Beautiful Blooms in Alaska
I started with Dahlias, a row of sweetpeas, and some sunflowers, each one in remembrance of someone I love. At the time they were the only varieties I was going to farm. I thought how special to have a symbolic but simple business model. Well we all know how that worked out for me. I ended up diving deep into packing my brian as full as I could with all things flowers. Continuing my education by touring other farms, attending workshops and conferences. I hungered to try my hand at more. Oh boy, all that new beauty took my breath away. Hands on teaching by far is my preferred method of learning. So…
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Tips for growing sweetpea flowers in Alaska
Not Sweet Peas you eat, but Sweetpea flowers is what we’re talking about here. Do you have a someone Sweetpea flowers remind you of? You probally do if you know of these frilly fragrant beauties. I fell in love with them further when I started growing them for market. Now on any given year we grow 8-10 varities. I have my go to’s but pick a few different ones to try each season just for fun. There are a few tricks to getting quality bushy plants with long stems I’ve learned over the years and now want to share them with you. Click on button for all the tips.
