Duchess of Gloucester Flowers

11/25/2016

Wonderful exhibit! Went this a.m. with Jamieson. Highly recommend it. It may be traveling soon? In NYC until Dec11.

“Women: New Portraits” by Annie Leibovitz showcases women like Shonda Rhimes, Elizabeth Warren, and Serena and Venus Williams.

11/18/2014

It's time to decorate for the holidays...... Gather the greens and begin to put together some holiday beauties....
We will be decorating at the Greensprings Garden Club's Christmas Homes Tour in Williamsburg, Virginia. Come out on December 7th to tour the historic homes and see the many unique and beautiful holiday floral decorations.

03/31/2014

This has been a longer and colder winter than any in the past 9 years I have grown and sold specialty cut flowers. Now that's the weather is warming up we'll be able to tell what plants thrived the cold snaps we've had. The eucalyptus plants are all dead for sure. But edibles are back again!!

01/11/2014

The 2014 Season has started! One of my florists called me this week to see what I might have to sell. Do I have eucalyptus for sale, she asked. Seems I do.....just wasn't quite ready to end this Christmas/New Year's break. The seed catalogs are coming. And there are some lisianthus seedlings in the small heated greenhouse.
Hope everyone is off to a good start for 2014!!

11/24/2013

Busy making holiday decorations!! Boxwood Tabletop Trees are our specialty this holiday season. Message us to place an order. $65 per tree. Shipping is added. These 'trees' (18" high) make excellent gifts for friends and relatives.

08/10/2013

We are now selling shiso through Dave and Dee's Homegrown Mushrooms, our edible flower broker. Shiso is used in Asian cuisine. The plant has beautiful purple leaves and looks a lot like Opal Basil. The distinguishing feature is it's very jagged leaf edges and it's delicious herbal fragrance (smells similar to anise). It is used in different ways including as a wrap for sushi.
So exciting that the shiso (Perilla) is going to restaurants!

05/10/2013

The Farmer's Market at Brent and Becky's Bulbs in Gloucester is this SATURDAY, May 11th. And the Triple Crown starts I will be selling are BLACKBERRIES. Come on over if you are anywhere near Gloucester County, Virginia. If you tell me you saw this post on Facebook, you will get a FREE bunch of flowers.

05/09/2013

We will be at Brent and Becky's Bulbs tomorrow for their monthly Farmer's Market. Come on out and support local producers. The time is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Bulb Shop, 7900 Daffodil Lane, Gloucester (Ware Neck), Virginia. Turn right off of Route 14 East about 6 miles from the Courthouse.
I will be selling fresh flowers by the bunch and in bouquets. Just right for Mother's Day! I will also be selling Triple Crown raspberry starts and some Amazon Neon Duo dianthus plants (plugs) for the cut flower garden.
Credit cards accepted!! :)

04/30/2013

So proud to be a member of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers, the professional organization for cut flower growers. The ASCFG has been advocating in Washington D.C. for a locally grown flower initiative. We must get designers to support their local growers by purchasing all of their flowers from local growers and not from the floral wholesalers who buy/sell flowers that are mass-produced in South America.

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