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A mown path through a meadow with native grasses and wildflowers

August 15, 2017

Meadows and Gardens A-buzz with Life!

When we made the decision to install two meadows on former pasture land in the year 2000, we were one of the first, if not the first, historic site in

Category iconGardening,  insects,  Uncategorized Tag iconflowers,  insects,  Meadows

We have pollinators following our harvest trailer around the farm! Harvest buckets of zinnias with a swallowtail butterfly left and a hummingbird moth on right.

October 26, 2015

Grow Great Spring Flowers and Pollinators Will Come!

Spring blooming flowers are about so much more than just gorgeous flowers.  Those featured in my book Cool Flowers are spring bloomers, but they also

Category iconClasses,  Events,  Gardening,  insects,  Spring Tag iconbutterflys,  cut flowers,  fall,  flowers,  gardening,  insects,  Lisa Mason Ziegler,  pollinators,  Spring

Gator

April 3, 2015

A Gardener’s Favorite Things

These are a few of my favorite things… Most gardeners have a few favorite tools they reach for over and over again. For me, the most important tool

Category iconGardening Tag iconboots,  gardening,  gator,  gloves,  pruners,  tools

Crimson Rambler

February 18, 2015

Another Ramblin’ Rose Graces Belmont

For a renowned figure painter like Gari Melchers, it was out of the ordinary to devote an entire canvas to the view of an empty garden, but the vision

Category iconArt,  Corinne Melchers,  Gardening,  Gari and Corinne Melchers,  Restored Gardens Tag iconarbor,  Butler Institute,  Crimson Rambler,  Dutch,  Garden,  Garden Club of Virginia,  Gari Melchers,  George Hitchcock,  Holland,  impressionism,  painting,  putto,  roses,  Schuylenburg,  Tea in the Garden,  Telfair Museum of Art,  tulips

Paul Neyron

January 16, 2015

Winter Gardening

Winter is a good time to settle down with seed and plant catalogs and a nice cup of hot tea. The weather is freezing and gardeners are hiding inside,

Category iconCorinne Melchers,  Gardening,  Restored Gardens Tag iconcatalogs,  Corinne Melchers,  Garden,  gardening,  heirloom,  peonies,  roses,  seedlings,  seeds,  winter

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Falmouth, VA 22405
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