Friday 7 May 2021
I’ve learnt to be far less snobby about growing flowers lately; because I cut them for the vase, this allows my planting to be free, with an eye for colour and shape rather than planning colour schemes in pots and border. When it comes to cut flowers, you can be far more crazed. I like flowers to be weird and wonderful for cutting. My favourite way to display them inside is simply in single stem vases or even shallow bowls. I ve found that circus-like, larger than life, almost bonkers in form flowers can take a room by storm and once you start arranging them in single stems, you’ll never look at a plant catalogue in the same way again! I like to grow varieties that I know I won’t be able to buy too and if I can, I choose flowers that will scent a room – they re so wonderful in bathrooms and by the bedside. Scent, character, charm and scale are the essentials here, regardless of the season, and don’t forget about seed heads either for the winter months.
The Martha s Vineyard Times
Flowers flourish at Featherstone (and beyond) Flowers and an Open Window, collage. Genevieve Jacobs
Top: Tulips, oil on pastel by Elizabeth Lockhart Taft. Bottom: Red Flowers in Three Glass Jars, oil by Katy Upson. Courtesy Featherstone Alboria, acrylic on canvas. Washington Ledesma Sunflowers, pen and watercolor on gray paper. Marianne Neill Cosmos in Glass, pen and watercolor on gray paper. Marianne Neill Rhododendrons in Vase, pen and watercolor on gray paper. Marianne Neill Cosmos and Russian Sage, pen and watercolor on gray paper. Marianne Neill Caryopteris Bluebeard, pen and watercolor on gray paper. Marianne Neill
Wicked Tulips Flower Farm Opens Once Again for Spring Picking
The tulip farm, opening April 23 at a new location in Exeter, runs just a few short weeks in spring.
April 22, 2021
Rows of vibrant purples, yellows as bright as the sun and reds as deep as a summer sunset contrast against a blue spring sky. For a moment in time, we imagine: This is what heaven on Earth must look like. Young children in floral dresses and muck boots with woven baskets in hand meander a field of blooms. Moms take photos while wrangling in their toddlers from snapping the delicate flora in half.