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My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
Tag: peonies
Peonies for Work
A bouquet of peonies to brighten the newsroom.
Garden Update: Peonies, Coreopsis, Hydrangea
Garden Update: Columbine, Peonies, Bees!
That columbine loves to reseed, doesn’t it? It’s loving where it lives near the pear tree. A little more over here by the driveway, too. And here’s where we moved our split. Since I am writing this post much later, […]
Garden Update: Cherries! Peonies! Currants!
A strange season this year, indeed. Cherries are ripening way early — two weeks, by some accounts — and yet, peonies, for some reason, stayed blooming later than ever. Here’s an update of what’s ripening and blooming in the fields. […]
Garden Update: Peonies, Iris, Cherries, Ninebark
Lots of beautiful things blooming at Sour Cherry Farm (and lots of weeds, too!). Here’s a look. Peonies, gorgeous as always: Coneflowers, making their way: The baby cherry tree is loaded! So is the Northstar. Catmint and […]
Garden Problems and Solutions: A Guide
After focusing so long on the patio and the gardens surrounding it, it’s time to turn our attention to other areas of the farm. We’ve been experimenting here and there, but in spring 2015, we will take what we’ve learnedĀ from […]
Porch Flowers 2014: Shopping at Rosedale with Sam
Why is it that choosing my annuals for the porch and patio pots is always such a conundrum? Every year I fret and waiver: should I get these? Which flowers? What color combinations? I know, I know: #firstworldproblems. Sam […]
How to Float Peonies
I was lucky enough this year to save my blooming peonies before the first heavy rainfall. Because I didn’t thin the blossoms, many of the cut flowers had a very small stem. For those, I found a low, wide serving […]
Garden Update: Ninebark, Hydrangea, Patio
It’s a weekend of garden work at the farm! We’re planting, weeding and mulching, plus taming a couple of big-assed flowering quinces that have gotten so out of control that I missed seeing our lilac bloom through them! The […]
Wherein We Hoist a Sail and Enjoy the Garden for Happy Hour
We’re trying something new at the farm here, folks. Thanks to a suggestion by Trae Feind (who finally paid the farm a visit but it went undocumented!), we ordered a sun sail to block the rays to the patio during […]
Peonies at the Farm
The peonies were a whole week early this year, and, as always seems to happen, just as they were blooming, a big storm was on its way. So I picked what I could and brought them into the house. They’re […]
Garden Update: Sour Cherries, Blackberries, Currants, Asparagus, Alliums, Peonies, Irises, Columbine and More
A look around the fields, folks. Yes, we seem to have come out of winter hibernation all right! Here’s a pretty one of my newly planted Nepeta.
