Tag: summer

• 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

• In a Vase on Monday | 3rd August 2026

  

  Two dahlias, a late rose, and a hydrangea that has been conscripted.

  Angela

  August 3, 2026

  garden

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

• Six on Saturday | 1st August 2026

  

  Spinach outrun, amaranth for lunch, and a pelargonium moonlighting as a bodyguard.

  Angela

  August 2, 2026

  garden

  amaranth, companion planting, corn, dahlias, Finnish garden, SixonSaturday, spinach, summer, vegetable garden

• 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.

  Angela

  July 27, 2026

  garden

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

• Six on Saturday | 25th July 2026

  

  Curtain up on the July garden: new understudies, a transatlantic plot twist, and a rebuilt terrace.

  Angela

  July 25, 2026

  garden

  bees, borage, cosmos, Finnish garden, flower garden, invasive species, SixonSaturday, summer, terrace