The Vermont Gardener

  Vernonia noveboracensis Vermont Flower Farm & Gardens 2263 US 2 Marshfield VT 05658 Welcome back!   Over the course of +35 years I hav...

WEATHER IN VERMONT Monday morning on the mountain above Peacham Pond. Light snow has been falling for a couple hours, 2" of new snow on...

  Our Soils, Our Gardens February 21, 2024 I just wrote this summary and believe it might be of interest to gardeners and gardening groups. ...

Daylily  Ruby Throat  THE COLOR RED Morning on the mountain. Working in the woods makes me sleep well and until the snow begins and gets dee...

 INVASIVE INSECT ALERT! Climate change has brought a number of new insects to Vermont. Read about the latest which is attacking the few elm ...

  GARDENING UNDER WATER If you have been watching the news you might well have seen what has happened in your favorite Vermont during the pa...

  PEONIES I just finished updating the Peony page on our website https://vermontflowerfarm.com . Peonies are available for sale at the farm ...

 TICKS April 2, 2023. 7:30 AM. 24.4° The wind is swirling snowflakes in big circles as small birds such as nuthatches and chickadees have tr...

MONARCH BUTTERFLIES Each year we try to do more to encourage monarch butterflies at our flower farm. We are doing a better job every year bu...

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...