Welcome July

June is almost over and the farm is blooming madly. It rained today after a thrilling thunder and lighting storm. The drops were warm and cooling at the same time, we cut cattails out of bogs a mile from the farm. I got back in the car covered in burrs.
July will bring crocosmia and gladiolas. We're seeing the last of the peonies and peach leaf bellflower.

Biomimicry and Me

Biomimicry, http://www.biomimicry.net/. The theory is; use nature's time tested patterns and strategies to design todays buildings. In Portland this building is in the Pearl, its the same height as all the other ones, and color, brown. The difference I see is the staggered window pattern. Christopher Alexander wrote The Pattern Language decades ago and its chock full of wonderful design ideas following the same principals. I guess I should get some clients in there so I can get a look.

Sarah's Peonies

My friend sarah posted the bouquet she bought for her office this week on her blog: http://sarahsthreads.blogspot.com/

I love this blogging business.

These Peonies are called Sarah Burnhart, they are from Bethany Little's farm in Eugene Oregon. I went out there Sunday and we cut for hours. There were lime green spiders with red stripes on some of the Ben Franklin peonies, I can't tell you how bright they were, neon on the magenta blooms. I guess they weren't made to crawl on the blossom but thats where the food is so they have to take the risk.

June 2nd Bouquets.

This picture is a bit fuzzy, the tallest blooms are columbine, iris and meadow roo, mid-height are lupine, lady's mantle, euphorbia and bachelor buttons. I'm up to 6 customers, not bad for my first official week in business. Next Monday's flowers are coming from a flower farm where I used to work in Eugene. I am spending the weekend there. We'll see how the Willamette valley growing season differs a bit from Hood River Valley. I'm hoping for Calla lilies.