Category: garden

• In a Vase on Monday | 7th September 2026

  

  Back to pastels with a splash of yellow, and last week’s dark vase refusing to quit.

  Angela

  September 7, 2026

  garden

  autumn, calendula, cut flowers, dahlias, Finnish garden, flower garden, freesia, gladiolus, in a vase on monday, monarda, ranunculus

• Six on Saturday | 5th September 2026

  

  Beans by the kilo, onions doing something new, and a sweet pea that turned up a season late.

  Angela

  September 6, 2026

  garden

  agastache, autumn, bush beans, calendula, Finnish garden, flower garden, harvest, hydrangea, onions, SixonSaturday, sweet peas, vegetable garden

• In a Vase on Monday | 31st August 2026

  

  Dark purple gladioli, burgundy dahlias, and a hard turn away from pastel.

  Angela

  August 31, 2026

  garden

  autumn, calendula, cut flowers, dahlias, Finnish garden, flower garden, gladiolus, in a vase on monday, monarda

• Six on Saturday | 29th August 2026

  

  A hydrangea with expansion plans, a curse finally broken, and a peach refusing to die.

  Angela

  August 29, 2026

  garden

  amaryllis, autumn, borage, Finnish garden, flower garden, harvest, hydrangea, peach, potatoes, ranunculus, SixonSaturday, tomatoes, vegetable garden

• In a Vase on Monday | 24th August 2026

  

  Dahlias again, were you really expecting something else?

  Angela

  August 24, 2026

  garden

  cut flowers, dahlias, Finnish garden, flower garden, gladiolus, hydrangea, in a vase on monday, summer, yarrow

• Six on Saturday | 22nd August 2026

  

  Monkshood a decade in the making, a sweet herb with cold feet, and sunchokes overtaking me again.

  Angela

  August 22, 2026

  garden

  Finnish garden, flower garden, herbs, lettuce, monkshood, nasturtiums, runner beans, SixonSaturday, summer, sunchoke, vegetable garden

• In a Vase on Monday | 17th August 2026

  

  Dahlias again, but this week the gladiolus brings the drama.

  Angela

  August 17, 2026

  garden

  calendula, cut flowers, dahlias, flower garden, gladiolus, hydrangea, in a vase on monday, summer

• In a Vase on Monday | 10th August 2026

  

  The dahlia pile continues to grow, and I finally made good on a three year old promise.

  Angela

  August 10, 2026

  garden

  cut flowers, dahlias, flower garden, hydrangea, in a vase on monday, summer

• Six on Saturday | 8th August 2026

  

  A mint that won’t spread, freesias that shouldn’t have worked, and the hostas keeping score.

  Angela

  August 9, 2026

  garden

  bees, calendula, dahlias, Finnish garden, flower garden, freesia, hostas, monarda, phlox, SixonSaturday, summer

• Forty Beds on the First of August

  

  Forty beds walked in one take. Third year doing this and I still am hopeless at remembering names.

  Angela

  August 6, 2026

  garden, homesteading

  dahlias, Finnish garden, flower garden, garden tour, kitchen garden, summer, vegetable garden