Comments on: Early Winter Farm Update

By: Andrea Killmer

Andrea Killmer — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 15:39:10 +0000

Your blog and book are the brightness in grey winter days! I am truly inspired! I have always had a love of colorful nontraditional veggie varieties and squash for decorating. Your blog and book has taken my life in a whole new path! Thank you!!!

By: Team Floret

Team Floret — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 14:08:07 +0000

In reply to Claire.

Clare,

That’s wonderful to hear!

xo~Erin

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:27:14 +0000

I can’t tell you how much your blog has changed my life. That sounds dramatic, I know, but I’ve always loved gardening- it’s in my blood. But adding flowers into my huge back yard veggie garden has literally brought me so much joy in the past couple years that I feel like I’m a different person. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience!!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:57:01 +0000

Looking forward to seeing the progress on the peony bed! I would love to know which varieties you have planned. I’m a local peony enthusiast and wish I had even a little more space for all of them. Last year, I even started them from seed and start learning how to hybridize them. It will be many years until they bloom, but should be fun to see some something that doesn’t exist yet. If you have some free time, and want to talk Peony with others, feel free to connect to our Pacific Northwest Peony Society’s Facebook group. Happy Holidays!

By: Eastward Gardens

Eastward Gardens — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 05:18:58 +0000

I am super excited to share my husband has built for me my first flower greenhouse. We are predominately a veggie farm and this was my second season growing flowers. After quitting my job last June I was ready to start to prosue the dream of adding flowers to our mix. It was such a success we are multiply the flowers by 4X and I have my first flower greenhouse. It’s like a dream come true. I have used your how to Ranunculus and Anemones videos and will be planting Icelandic Poppies ( seeds from you:-)and Snapdragons for the first time this next season. I can’t wait to see all the beauty this greenhouse will bring next Spring. Happy farming!!

By: Lydia

Lydia — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 22:02:52 +0000

Thank you for all your great advice, ideas and workshops. For the first time, I planted 300 tulips and am looking forward to planning in the greenhouse year round. Merry Christmas!

By: Reece

Reece — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 21:10:03 +0000

Greetings from Sydney Australia here Erin and the floret team!
You and your amazing farm have motivated me over the past few years to finally get motivated and a little flowery patch up and running for my mother and sister. I’ve finally given dahlias a proper go this year and have 24 diffeeent varieties (got carried away) up and growing. They’re only small at the moment but are beginning to branch off nicely and some are starting to send out flow dubs. Exciting times and yourbook has been a wonderful help!
Glad to receive the email updates and the interesting plans you have going on with both the farms !! Happy holidays and have yourself a nice winters break.

By: Lisa Haas

Lisa Haas — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:29:55 +0000

This last month kicked off an official start to growing for real success. The cogs, flywheels, and gears assembled from the Floret Workshop Class of 2018 are well oiled and gaining momentum in my head as well as on the potting bench as we head into the shortest days of the year. My vision is clear backwards and forwards even as more pixels get added to the overall farmer-florist picture. Pre-planning, mapping, revisions, and more planning are necessarily ongoing as I burn through yet another notebook filled with ideas of building that better mouse trap. And thanks to revisiting the Floret Workshop videos on getting a good start, hundreds (okay, thousands) of ranunculus and anemones are waking up to a decidedly well nurtured and snuggly place to call home. The flowers are content, my buyers are excited, and I’m downright giddy with anticipation. Winter has never been so bright!

By: Tracey

Tracey — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:40:52 +0000

Thank you for the beautiful winter photographs of my beloved Pacific Northwest. People think it’s dreary and rains all winter in Washington (and they’re so right in November!) but the beauty of the frosts and the fog is something I’ll always miss. I’m living in Ohio now so I have a different kind of beauty with the snow and deep cold, but I can’t ever forget my garden in Marysville when it looked like your photos here.

By: Amanda Black

Amanda Black — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:39:50 +0000

This was my first year growing paperwhites and amaryllis and I love it! It’s so nice to have fresh flowers inside my home. It feeds my green thumb while we’re stuck indoors during these cold PNW winters. Thank you for all of your growing tips!