Six on Saturday | 3rd October 2026
Potatoes, onions and beetroot, oh my! Plus some squash. So. Much. Squash.
Six on Saturday | 26th September 2026
Set loose to collect seed in Finland’s last teacher training college garden!
In a Vase on Monday | 21st September 2026
The realest vase yet: flowers cut, arrangement pending, nasturtiums hitting their stride.
In a Vase on Monday | 14th September 2026
The wind knocked the dahlia heads off, so the birds got a vase this week.
Six on Saturday | 12th September 2026
A mushroom course, a fungus you could throw at a mugger, and kiwis found by accident.
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.
Six on Saturday | 5th September 2026
Beans by the kilo, onions doing something new, and a sweet pea that turned up a season late.
In a Vase on Monday | 31st August 2026
Dark purple gladioli, burgundy dahlias, and a hard turn away from pastel.
Six on Saturday | 29th August 2026
A hydrangea with expansion plans, a curse finally broken, and a peach refusing to die.
Six on Saturday | 22nd August 2026
Monkshood a decade in the making, a sweet herb with cold feet, and sunchokes overtaking me again.
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.
Six on Saturday | 8th August 2026
A mint that won’t spread, freesias that shouldn’t have worked, and the hostas keeping score.
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.
In a Vase on Monday | 3rd August 2026
Two dahlias, a late rose, and a hydrangea that has been conscripted.
Six on Saturday | 1st August 2026
Spinach outrun, amaranth for lunch, and a pelargonium moonlighting as a bodyguard.
In a Vase on Monday | 27th July 2026
Four dahlias, two stowaways, and a vase cut at 7PM because the morning belonged to the archipelago.
Six on Saturday | 25th July 2026
Curtain up on the July garden: new understudies, a transatlantic plot twist, and a rebuilt terrace.
Six on Saturday | 18th July 2026
Back after a week off: a rehabilitated jungle, a spitefully shorn rose, and the first dahlias of the year.
Six on Saturday | 4th July 2026
A rose that nobody planted, the first trickle of food from dirt to kitchen, and a grape with delusions of grandeur.
First Harvest: Asparagus and Fried Eggs
Five spears, 61 grams of asparagus, and a kid who only wants the tips.
In a Vase on Monday | 29th June 2026
A peony vase cut at 9PM, racing the first thunderstorm of the season.
Finnish Flower Arranging 101
This is the kind of flower arranging they don’t teach you at those fancy workshops with the shallow bowls of floral foam and the instructor murmuring about negative space. Which is a shame, because it’s a public service, technically.
In a Vase on Monday | 22nd June 2026
The seven flowers of midsummer, per Finnish folklore — with one columbine getting in on a technicality.
Six on Saturday | 20th June 2026
Midsummer chaos — lilac haircuts, lupine cascades, and one increasingly singular poppy.
In a Vase on Monday | 15th June 2026
The two oldest and most dependable perennials on the property show up for their annual closeup.
Six on Saturday | 13th June 2026
Three vines eating the house, one reliably punctual peony, and the start of a homegrown wasabi bed.
In a Vase on Monday | 8th June 2026
The Annual Reaping of the Lupines bouquet — an invasive that gets a stay of execution for being pretty.
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