Our Story
Our gardens are our passion. We want to share the bounty of our labor and the knowledge we have gained through our love of tilling the soil, planting the seeds, and harvesting the flowers. We strive to foster and nurture other gardeners, flower enthusiasts, and, most importantly, our natural pollinators and habitats.
We are two dear friends who found our passion for growing and nurturing flowers in our small urban backyard gardens. Times change, children grow up, and new twists and turns take place. In 2017 both our families moved to the same small rural community nestled in the hills of western Massachusetts. This move changed our gardening lives.
Our expanded natural landscapes allowed us to realize and more deeply appreciate our love of getting our hands dirty, digging in the soil, planting the seeds, harvesting blooms, and artfully arranging our flowers.
“I love being outside and working the soil. It’s an intricate composition of small and large stones, plants, and a profusion of life. Gardening clears my mind and helps me think and see the world in a different way. “ - Lydia
“Once I’ve filled the bucket with beautiful cut flowers, vines and greenery I have my color palette. Nothing makes me more happy than creating floral arrangements and seeing the joy the flowers bring to people.” - Mary
Our Gardens
Life is always better with a little bit of variety. We live but a mere distance from each other and have a marked difference in our ecosystems. Each of our environs display two very distinct landscapes.
Lydia’s open meadow provides the sun filled space for our shared cut flower garden, a developing small orchard of fruit trees, a high yielding family vegetable garden, and an ever evolving ledge of perennials.
Right around the corner Mary’s wooded terrain allows for prolific shade loving plantings. Her gardens are surrounded by maple trees, old apple trees, and evergreens. It is an established garden featuring a forty year old towering rhododendron, shade tolerant flowers, thickets of bushes, and raised vegetable beds.
All the flowers and plants we grow are selected for their variety of color, texture, fragrance, and ability to flourish in our gardens.
Our Flowers
We are avid gardeners who collaborate and work within and to the benefit of our distinct surroundings; we plant to entice pollinators, and harvest flowers for the enjoyment of our community. We offer seasonal cut flower subscriptions and floral arrangements from our shared flower beds and gardens.
Our bouquets always include something cultivated and something foraged. Depending on what’s blooming during the seasons, our bouquets may include many different annuals, from amaranth to zinnias; a variety of perennials, from delphiniums to peonies; herbs, and shade loving hostas and ferns. We also gather whatever Mother Nature has to offer from the surrounding fields and woods.
We hope to offer workshops in floral arranging, foraging for bouquets, and holiday wreath making as soon as we’ve all been vaccinated. In the meantime you can sign up for our 2021 flower subscription and join our email list for our quarterly newsletter where we can all chat about our love of flowers and gardens!
