Flower Child Plants

Friday Flowers 💐 I love creating bouquets and collecting herbs for Britton & Associates, Inc. - Landscape Architects and their clients 🌿👩🏻‍🌾✨

Three months ago I started my fall vegetable garden by mostly seed! Fall vegetable gardening has become my favorite season by far 🥦🥕✨ In the past I have usually bought transplants, but doing it by seed has been more even more rewarding this year 👩🏻‍🌾! My goal each fall is to have my crops ready by day, so I can’t wait to incorporate my veggies into my meal! What are you cooking this year? 🌿

I’ve been a little quiet or “dormant” this year on socials because I’ve been working on a new project and I’m excited to finally share it with you! This year has been my 17th year of working in the horticulture industry and I celebrated my 8th year in business on Monday! While I’ve enjoyed connecting my clients to plants and nature over the years, something has been calling on me to do so in a different way. I’m excited to share that I started coursework at this fall to become a horticultural therapist! As a horticultural therapist I will be able to provide therapeutic gardening to assist people with various mental health needs and physical & developmental disabilities. I hope to work with the public and individuals creating healing gardens and refine my services for Flower Child Plants🥲👩🏻‍🌾💚 Please check out my new page The Resilient Gardener to learn more and follow my journey!

Getting warm fall colors can be a challenge in the shady spots when considering flowers alone. I love incorporating foliage plants in containers and fall displays. Huechera, sedges,ligularia & brunnera are an interesting selection from our regular fall plants. These plants can grow in shade but they do best in bright filtered light or with a few hours of sun early in the day. I’ve had great luck with these evergreen perennials in containers for many seasons. In ground, be sure to amend the soil well with expanded shale and acidified compost as they thrive in areas with rich well draining soils. I picked up these lovely foliage plants at North Haven Gardens 🍁

Happy Fall, Friends🍂! It’s been a while since I posted last. I’ve been cultivating a new project & I can’t wait to share more with you soon, so stayed tuned 👩🏻‍🌾!

All week we’ve been planting fall projects, though this week has felt more like summer. In this combo we have crotons, crossandra, ornamental peppers, petchoa, huechera & carex.