The Week in Flowers

The Week in Flowers: First Week of September

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It has been a rainy week here in the North East. I am not at all complaining as the garden needed a good watering. I haven’t spent much time in my garden really and never got the second round of flowers planted at the end of August like I wanted. Still, the flowers are forever giving and I have some asters and zinnias that are still filling the space with color.

Since there wasn’t much to photograph I thought I would try for something a bit different this week and share some painted flowers.

I am working on painting watercolor flowers at the moment. I really want to combine watercolor images with words, quotes and the like and I thought it was a good idea to start practicing.

So, as I love to do, I found a little course on painting watercolors over on Skillshare. (Not at all sponsored but I am sharing an affiliate link that, if you use and make a qualifying purchase I can earn a free month of Skillshare-so that’s fun!)

I’m still working on the roses. Couldn’t quite get the technique down but I’m going to keep trying!

If you are interested in the exact class I am taking you can find that here. The teacher is really clear and it’s a quick and fun class that will have you painting some watercolor flowers in no time. I also love that she shares inexpensive materials as well. While it’s nice to have the fancy stuff I hate to see someone not painting because they can’t afford the goodies. In fact the images I am sharing with you were painted with an $8 set I found on Amazon-and that I really love!

So I hope you enjoyed this little spin on The Week in Flowers. I am not sure where this will go as the weather gets colder but I refuse to end Summer until it is official and then, I will squeal with delight as I welcome in Fall!

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

The Week in Flowers: The 4th Week of August

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This week in flowers is all about Zinnias and Asters-and I am oh so alright with that.

If my garden only had Zinnias, Asters and Feverfew I would have everything I needed for my favorite kind of bouquet.

I am thinking about covering some of my sunflowers so that those beautiful yellow birds I mentioned last week are forced to leave me some seeds to save for next year.

 

 

 

 

 

Of course, could we ever just pick 3 flowers to grow in our gardens?

Until next time…

–Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

This Week in Flowers: 2nd Week in August 2022

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The bouquets keep coming and for this I am truly grateful

Zinnias, I do believe I could have acres of them and never grow tired.

And my sunflowers this year have been utterly amazing. Towering over the garden so they are visible from the second floor landing. They are in an assortment of colors and I am going to be diligently working on collecting seed (and savings many for the birds) so I can grow them again next year.

This bouquet is in the foyer so it greets you when you walk in the door.

Not flowers I know but I had to share my pumpkins. I have been on a mission for years to grow our pumpkins for Halloween. I have been successful with one maybe a year but this year? Oh this year I have counted 5 pumpkins! 3 are huge, one is mid size and one is itty bitty yet. This one looks ready to harvest and I just had to snap a photo to share. They are growing outside of the fencing so I am keeping an eye out for nibblers.

Another large pumpkin that still has some ripening up to do

Another large one looking very orange and full of fall spirit.

This is a smaller one but I am excited to see how it goes. My goal was a pumpkin for each member of the family and if the baby one I didn’t photograph grows up a bit I will have reached my goal.

Wishing you sun tea in the garden.

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

The Week in Flowers: First Week in August

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It was earlier this year when I started watching videos on cut flower gardening. I admit to dreams of fantasy where I was selling my cut flowers at a road side stand. Beautiful arrangements wrapped in brown paper for customers to bring home and enjoy.

There is just something about cut flowers that make a space feel happier. I always smile when I walk by the vases in my home. Random repurposed glassware that holds wildflower type arrangements of cut pretties from the garden.

Recently the idea of sharing the weekly arrangements and afew snippets from around the garden came to me and I thought a post, consisting mainly of photos rather than words might just brighten up your day too. I do hope you enjoy.