The Vermont Gardener

BEAVERS & GARDENERS If you live and garden anyplace in Vermont and you have a nearby stream, river, pond or lake, you are probably alrea...

 Karol Emmerich, owner of Springwood Gardens in Minnesota recently posted this to Facebook and the Discovering Daylilies page. It is worth t...

 Stuck In Vermont A video about Vermont Flower Farm created by Eva Sollberger https://mailchi.mp/sevendaysvt/the-couple-behind-vermont-flowe...

PEST MANAGEMENT  We only grow flowers at Vermont Flower Farm and Gardens but many in New England grow vegetables as their main crop. The Xer...

  We just had a new drone video made with help from local producer Seth O'brien, owner of Green Mountain Drone ( https://facebook.com gr...

NEAR  WHITE  DAYLILIES  Remember the far distant cartoon show named Rocky and Bullwinkle? It was located in a fictional Minnesota town named...

PEONIES  FROM  SEEDS   It may seem a while back to June 9th when I took this picture of peonies setting nice buds. Now two months later it...

 DAYLILY SEASON  We are about 18-19 days away from excellent daylily bloom at Vermont Flower. Farm. Even a little rain will get things going...

 Pollinators The Rocky Mountain Biological Lab may be a long way from Vermont but the research there is critical to our eastern pollinators....

  Northern Vermont Hardy Plant Club Just a reminder that one of Vermont's greatest collections of serious gardeners belong to this group...

  BUTTERNUTS I remember so well arriving in Vermont as a five-year-old and finding a world that was exciting, challenging, and dramatically ...

OUR NEW WEBSITE HAS ARRIVED!  We are pleased to announce that our Vermont Flower Farm website has been revised and is now available to you ...

  Supply Costs to Farmers It doesn't matter what size "garden" you grow, whether a few square feet or a few hundred acres, the...

ALLERGIES Here's an article from National Geographic showing recent findings that point to higher allergy issues as climate warms. I bel...

PEONIES In the old days, it was quite common, almost expected, to see peonies growing around every farmhouse in New England. Vermont was no ...

 Lilacs A Sunday afternoon but without any sun. Snow squalls and 27.5°instead. I just finished with the new web page for the lilacs we sell ...

  BUMBLEBEES IN VERMONT The Vermont Center for Ecostudioes just released this guide to bumblebees which some of you might be interested in. ...

  BUMBLEBEES It's always difficult for me to comprehend that 40% of all the pollinators in Vermont are bumblebees. Just the same, that...

SUMACS There are good and bad benefits to living by a river. Waterways are a magnet for all sorts of birds which is great......but.....they ...

 Keep Your Tools Clean Jan Johnsen has been writing a popular gardening blog, Serenity In The Garden , for years. This time of winter when t...