It has been so long since I made a journal entry that I do not even remember when! All I can say about the last few months is that we sent out a lot of plants from our farm. Many thanks to all our gardening customers, may your plants always grow to their full potential!

Now that the shipping season for spring is done, and the fall catalog safely with the printer, we find ourselves beginning what may be a long hot summer. The vegetables are growing and peaches being picked, so all of our summer chores seem to revolve around eating! Being how we are though, flowers will be found on any ground not already occupied.

Last fall, I showed pictures of my seed collecting efforts. This past time takes place while driving; if I see a plant I want, I stop and mark it with flagging tape. It is really hard to relocate plants without a marker, since the original marker is now long gone to seed. This picture is one of the grass filters, which surround all of our fields. Grasses work well, but a few wildflowers turn it into a little prairie, which are always a wonder to behold! Flowers bring a host of winged creatures to colonize this man made habitat: Dragonflies and Butterflies, Bluebirds and Goldfinches fill a pallet of color in constant motion. But, my favorite is the constantly soaring Marsh Hawk, not seen in our fields before the prairies were planted. You don’t have to believe me, look at the picture, it can’t do justice to maybe a hundred thousand flowers.

By the way, that’s our newest pup, an Aussie named ‘Blue’.  A great dog …