Fall Flowers

orange-red Helenium with yellow tips

Big bales of straw, pumpkins, cornucopias…all beautiful decorations of autumn. Your garden can be equally decorative with colorful, robust perennials that keep your flower beds cheery up through the holidays. Here are a few that I love:

Goldenrod

Goldenrod is native to North America and can grow to four feet tall, which makes for a lovely house, fence, or yard border. The sunny blooms can withstand lots of sun and prefer well-drained soil. Its drought resistant nature make it an ideal choice for many regions of the country.

Purple aster

Aster has a range of colors: purple, white, pink, and blue, making them one of the most colorful of all the fall flowers. And they attract birds and butterflies, making your garden feel like a magical fairy land. The blooms are plentiful and the cuttings make for nice indoor arrangements.

orange-red Helenium with yellow tips

Helenium is a native plant in the daisy family, known for its fire-colored flowers. They can grow quite tall, so be sure to stake them to keep upright. They like a damp soil, so plant in areas with poor drainage or use mulch to help out drier areas.

pink Sedum

Sedum blooms at the end of summer and will thrive all fall. Flowers can be pink, red, white, or orange. This strong beauty handles drought or rainy conditions with equal ease and will stay quite lovely up through the winter.

red and orange Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemums, particularly “Hardy Mums” are the quintessential fall flower. Water frequently to keep them at their best and protect the ground with mulch in the winter. Perhaps most impressive is their variety of flower shapes and colors (every color but blue!) Pinch back and cut blooms and they’ll continue to flourish.

Happy autumn and happy gardening!

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July Flowers

Bunch of zinnia flowers in red, pale green, yellow, pink, salmon

How I love July flowers! Your garden and table design doesn’t have to suffer just because we’re entering the peak of summer heat. There are so many colorful, vibrant flowers that flourish this time of year. Here are a few of my favorites:

close up of purple blue Cornflower in front of a light blue sky

Cornflower

Magnolia_sieboldii white with pink centers on a green leafy bush

Magnolia

Delphinium_elatum_hybride. Deep blue and purplle flower stalk with leafy green background

Delphinium

Gerbera_farben. Pink, yellow and red gerbera daisies arranged among greens

Gerbera

A Dahlia Arnhem at Dalieda de San Francisco (a dahlia garden) in Madrid (Spain).

Dahlia

Bunch of zinnia flowers in red, pale green, yellow, pink, salmon

Zinnia

Remember that summer flowers typically love sunlight and lots of water. What are your favorite July flowers?

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My Love of Flowers

tiff

I’ve always felt that having fresh flowers makes a house beautiful, whether they’re wild flowers or a bouquet from a store. It was always my dream to open a flower shop.

The house that I grew up in was surrounded by fields of daisies, lavender, and wild flowers. I would always find myself walking and cutting flowers and decorating my Mom’s house with flowers as a child.

As I grew up, I worked in a floral shop as a young designer, and then went on to own two of my own stores, one that I named after my daughter, Tiffany.

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