The Vermont Gardener

SPRING IS GETTING CLOSER   Just outside my home office window, I maintain two bird birders and several suet cages for winter entertainment w...

 Dividing Daylilies Saturday afternoon, January 14 at 2 PM. I am using up a little time online while waiting for the San Francisco 49ers pla...

  Quite a day here on the mountain above Peacham Pond where we live. It started out cold but by 9 AM the light snow had changed to rain and ...

  January White January 12, 2023. 7:30 PM. I couldn't wait any longer and I had to open the back door to see whether the weather was cha...

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 ...