Spring 2013 is a winner for Apples . . . unlike last year . . . and this year, luckily, we did not get a killing frost to the fragile flowers. Hopefully last nights hail did not damage the forming fruit. These blooms have all but faded now but were like fragrant clouds within the gardens for a couple of weeks. Featured here are the Apple trees in our lower, east-facing, south garden that runs down into the blueberry fields. I was lucky to have inherited these trees when moving … [Read more...] about Blooming Apples In The South Lower Gardens
Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Summer Twenty-Twelve
While many are shoveling out from deep blankets of snow-drifts, I would like to escape our white wintry hillside by recalling landscape tapestries of summer twenty-twelve. Storms of blossoms unfurl throughout the spring and summer here at Flower Hill Farm attracting pollinators, birds and other beasts to our gardens, fields and forest. It is this living tapestry of color, texture, fragrance and sounds that inspired me to create this blog four years ago . . . February 6, … [Read more...] about Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Summer Twenty-Twelve
Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Summer Twenty-Twelve
While many are shoveling out from deep blankets of snow-drifts, I would like to escape our white wintry hillside by recalling landscape tapestries of summer twenty-twelve. Storms of blossoms unfurl throughout the spring and summer here at Flower Hill Farm attracting pollinators, birds and other beasts to our gardens, fields and forest. It is this living tapestry of color, texture, fragrance and sounds that inspired me to create this blog four years ago . . . February 6, 2009.Over the last … [Read more...] about Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Summer Twenty-Twelve
Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Spring Twenty-Twelve
Looking out on a white and cold landscape, I dream of spring, though do not wish to hurry it. Since we are in January, I look ahead while also following Janus's glances back in time towards my favorite Flower Hill Farm landscape tapestries of spring twenty-twelve. It truly is remarkable . . . experiencing the seasons . . . imagining this lush, joyous and verdant breath of life . . . now resting and dormant within the deepest protected layers of crusty, cellular … [Read more...] about Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Spring Twenty-Twelve
Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Spring Twenty-Twelve
Looking out on a white and cold landscape, I dream of spring, though do not wish to hurry it. Since we are in January, I look ahead while also following Janus's glances back in time towards my favorite Flower Hill Farm landscape tapestries of spring twenty-twelve.It truly is remarkable . . . experiencing the seasons . . . imagining this lush, joyous and verdant breath of life . . . now resting and dormant within the deepest protected layers of crusty, … [Read more...] about Recalling Landscape Tapestries of Spring Twenty-Twelve
