Cut Flower Tips and Tricks ~ Meet Me in the Garden

Assembling a bouquet of flowers from your own garden gives great pleasure. We get to appreciate the plants in a new way as we put together a unique bouquet.

 

 Meet Me in the Garden 

This July I helped with the Meet Me in the Garden workshop that the North Country Master Gardener Volunteers put on each summer. I presented a Cut Flower Tips and Tricks workshop.

 

 I shared tips for heading out to the garden to harvest flowers to create your own lovely bouquets.

Having clean buckets, tools and vases are key to helping a fresh cut flower bouquet with vase life.

When heading outside to cut your flowers, bring a bucket filled with water with you. Placing your flowers in water as soon as you cut them helps with vase life.

Try to cut in the cool of the day.. morning or evening.

 After Care ~ Bouquet Care Tips

Keep bouquets filled with water

Place flowers away from direct sunlight

Cut fresh stems when changing the water

I used the following book as a resource to put my presentation together ..

Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden 

the book is full of fabulous advice and lovely photography.

I enjoyed the event and I am getting more comfortable presenting in front of others.

 

Joy List Monday

Joy List Monday

 a weekly ritual

a reminder to stop and pay attention to the little beauties and graces

 that make life magical and to set aside time for gratitude each day

♥ sweet corn .. eating fresh sweet corn on the cob with butter dripping down my chin

 ♥ spending time with my oldest son before he leaves for Basic

 ♥ visiting with friends and family that we have not seen since last summer or longer

 ♥ a friend calling up to say she has lots of plums on her plum tree .. she wants to share

♥ making plum crisp .. enjoying with a scoop of ice cream

Hello Friends,

The past two weeks have been fun of adventure and many new experiences.

I hosted my first garden tour, here at our home for DayBreak. DayBreak is an adult day care for folks with dementia. It was a very special day and I will share about the day and tour soon.

I helped with a Cut Flower Garden and Fresh Cut Flower Bouquets workshop at the Twilight Garden Tour.

We also have been busy enjoying the last few weeks with our oldest son as he prepares to leave for Basic the first week of September. We enjoyed a fun trip to Door County, Wisconsin.

I will share about each one of the above in future posts. 

 

♥

Carla

 

 

Joy List Monday

Joy List Monday

a weekly ritual

a reminder to stop and pay attention to the little beauties and graces that make life magical and to set aside time for gratitude each day

♥ listening to summer bugs 

 ♥ sipping sun tea with a dash of lemon

  ♥ enjoying all the fresh garden veggies .. cucumbers, eggplant, tomatoes

♥ listening to baseball games on the radio

♥ summer evening walks with the ones that I love

♥

I will be out exploring this week.

Be Back Soon!