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Gratitude Flowers Gratitude Flowers is a small specialty nursery and flower farm in Edgewood, WA. Seasonal floral subscriptions include tulips & sweet peas.

We grow cutting garden plant starts including classic favorites, heirlooms, and select natives, and lisianthus.

10/12/2026

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

As we welcome the first frosts of fall, the garden begins its transition toward winter. There is always a little sadness in saying goodbye to the flowers we've nurtured and enjoyed throughout the growing season, but there is also beauty in watching the seasons change.

The garden has a wonderful way of reminding us to appreciate what is here today, embrace the changes ahead, and find joy in each season as it comes.

Wishing you a beautiful week ahead. Take a little time to enjoy the changing season and all the beauty it brings.

Enjoy the garden.The colors and breath of things slowing down can be so inspiring as we head into the rainy months ahead...
10/08/2026

Enjoy the garden.

The colors and breath of things slowing down can be so inspiring as we head into the rainy months ahead. Sorry, but you know they’re coming!

10/07/2026

I’m especially lovely this time of year, when so much of the garden is beginning to fade and I’m just getting started. In spring, I emerge with deep purple foliage, although my coloring can vary depending on how much sun or shade I receive. As the season moves along, my leaves soften into a lovely mix of bronzy green and lighter purple hues.

By fall, my clusters of small white flowers begin opening above the foliage. My umbrella shaped blooms get tickled in October by bees and other beneficial friends.

I’m pretty wonderful in bouquets too, bringing an unusual foliage color to arrangements all season long. My stems naturally reach toward the light, so they can sometimes develop a curve as they grow. Cut and position me with that in mind and those stems can add an interesting shape rather than fight against it. You’ll even find me mentioned in the Floral Standards book from Seattle Growers Market, formerly Seattle Wholesale Growers Market.

Ageratina altissima ‘Chocolate’
Plant Type: Perennial
Height: 36 to 60 in
Spacing: 24 to 36 in
Sun: Full to Part Sun

I’m worth saving a little space for. Between my changing foliage, late flowers, and usefulness in the vase, I really am pretty great.

10/05/2026

Hope feels a little different to me this week, especially around a subject that some of you know is deeply personal.

There are incredibly promising advances happening in islet cell research that could someday give people living with type 1 diabetes the opportunity for something closer to a functional cure. One particular study out of Chicago has been creating so much excitement within the T1 diabetes community, and to see it featured on NBC Nightly News this evening brought a feeling of hope that is almost unfathomable.

Watching this progress move forward, and seeing conversations happening about increasing access to these treatments, has filled me with an excitement that is honestly hard to put into words.

Those of us who garden understand hope pretty well. We plant something small, care for it, wait through seasons when not much seems to be happening, and trust in the possibility of what might come next.

Today, I am holding onto that kind of hope a little more closely.

As the garden begins to slow down a little, I start putting the snips away when it comes to deadheading my roses and all...
10/01/2026

As the garden begins to slow down a little, I start putting the snips away when it comes to deadheading my roses and allow those last blooms to begin forming rose hips.

All season long, we’ve been cutting and deadheading to encourage more flowers. Now we get to do the opposite. Leaving those fading blooms alone allows the plant to follow its natural seasonal rhythm instead of continually asking it for one more round of flowers.

And there’s a little reward for leaving the snips behind. Those rose hips will begin coloring up as the season progresses, adding another layer of interest to the fall and winter garden.

09/30/2026

I’m not as stout as some of my biennial cousins, which can be a good thing because I generally don’t require staking. I tuck in places easier in spring since I am more manageable plant size.

I’m also a little quicker than traditional foxgloves. Plant me in spring here in the Pacific Northwest and I’ll bloom my first year, often bringing flowers into fall. It’s a lovely way to extend the garden season with something that feels a little unusual blooming this time of year.

My spotted throats invite a closer look, and bees are quite happy to crawl right inside my blooms. I come in several colors, from cream and soft peach to pink and purple, making it easy to find a place for me among other cottage garden favorites.

Dalmatian Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea ‘Dalmatian’)
Plant Type: Biennial
Height: 24 to 36 in
Spacing: 12 to 18 in
Sun: Full to Part Sun

09/28/2026

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Fall is settling in, bringing with it some of the most beautiful colors of the year. Take a little time this week to slow down and enjoy the changing colors around you.

Zinnias are a beautiful example of how the garden changes with the season. As the blooms mature and begin to dry, their colors shift and soften into some of the most beautiful shades of fall.

Wishing you a wonderful week ahead enjoying all that this season has to offer.🍂

Summer is beginning to fade away and fall is settling into the garden. Many of the flowers that carry us beautifully int...
09/17/2026

Summer is beginning to fade away and fall is settling into the garden. Many of the flowers that carry us beautifully into fall, including rudbeckia, zinnias, and sunflowers, are what we sometimes call “dirty flowers.”

It’s not a reflection of the flowers themselves, but rather how quickly they can muck up the water in your vase. One little trick I use is I add a single drop of bleach to the water each time I change it. It helps keep bacteria in check and the water clearer, which can help your flowers stay fresh longer.

And remember, just one small drop. More is definitely not better when it comes to bleach! 🌼

09/16/2026

I may start as a fairly unassuming clump of green, but once summer arrives, I send up tall spikes covered in tiny flowers that are hard to miss. You’ll most often find me in shades of blue and purple, but I also come in pink and white. My upright blooms bring a different shape to the garden and are especially pretty mixed among softer, more rounded flowers.

I’m a perennial, so give me a sunny spot with well drained soil and I’ll return each year. Bees and other pollinators are frequent visitors when I’m in bloom, and removing my spent flower spikes can encourage me to keep producing flowers as the season moves along.

I’m also quite happy making the trip from garden to vase. My long flower spikes add height and an interesting line to arrangements, and cutting stems while the lower flowers are open and the upper buds are still closed will give you more time to enjoy me indoors.

Veronica (Veronica spicata)
Plant Type: Perennial
Height: 18 to 36 in
Spacing: 12 to 18 in
Sun: Full to Part Sun

Battered and torn from the rains. Still as beautiful as ever.
09/15/2026

Battered and torn from the rains. Still as beautiful as ever.

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4420 110th Avenue E
Edgewood, WA
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