Our Bouquets in La Bella Bride 2010

We are so excited our bouquets and boutonnieres are pictured in the newest La Bella Bride Magazine.
It is fresh off the press.

December wedding

Red and burgundy flowers for the bride and groom bring warmth to a winter wedding and look stunning against the white dress. Can't wait for professional photos. Some thing blue... the snowflake on her bouquet.

And for the groom.

Our Designs at the Vt Vows Wedding Affair

Table top photos: Landwehrle Photography

Location: Shelburne Farms

Cakes by Vermont Cake Studio

Summer weddings

This was a beautiful Stowe wedding at The Blessed Sarcement Church in Stowe Vt

The reception was held at Topnotch Resort in Stowe

Barrie Fisher was the photographer

Event planner was Storied Events

Summer wedding

This was a wonderful wedding at Shelburne Museum and Burlington Country Club

David Seaver did the photography

Weddings, Weddings, Weddings

Here at The Painted Tulip we are having a great wedding season . Reaching our busiest time for weddings.. fall. I wanted to post a few pictures from the summer. The Painted Tulip has joined Vermont Wedding Professional and we are very excited about it.

Growing through the rain

Though the rain keeps coming our gardens keep growing. The field flowers are doing okay, the sun lovers are slow to bloom zinnias and sunflowers. But the delphiniums were just amazing. Our potatoes and artichokes seem happy. We have had great market days this week, with sun shinning. I am very excited about the poppies in the cutting gardens, just amazing. Our dinner plate dahlias are just jaw dropping. Eben has been working on making new raised beds so we can grow more veggies for the house. We had a great photo shoot with La Bella Bride Magazine, just a few bouquets. The weeds are growing well with the rain but no matter what we are always battling them.

Red white and Blue in the Garden

Being a cottage gardener , I never know what is going to arrive . I was surprized to find this red, white and blue blooming together around July 4th.

We are now in full swing and have an abundance of flowers. Markets have been very active and I thank all of you who have been attending.

Some of our amazing crops this year are: delphinium, snapdragons, golden Margette, camplanula, sweet william, and my new love.. " Geisha Girl" Calendula with its amazing petal count. Our sunflowers started blooming end of June and hopefully will continue to do so. And From now till fall we should have oriental lilies. They came out this week looking stunning and smelling even better.

Our events have being going smoothly and wonderfully beautiful. Look for our pictures which we are posting as they come in.

Well time to go do battle with the weeds.

Popping Poppies

This week ..the oriental poppies are out and looking stunning. Because they are short lived I always enjoy them. They are standing in the garden with the allium which is a strange color combination, but everything seems to look great in a cottage style garden. The lupins are poking out too, lilac are in full bloom, and the mountain bluets are blooming like crazy.

There was a frost this week but with are hoops and remay we survived with very little damage. This week I am trying to transplant as much as possible, while my helper weed the perennial beds. The gardens are comming along.

Last weekends event was really gorgeous. It was a small wedding at a private residence in Waitsfield, VT.

Event at the Equinox and Farmers Markets

We had a great weekend at The Equinox in Manchester, VT doing our first big event of the season. The Flowers were wonderful and everyone was delighted. Even the weather held out.

The Farmers Market season is starting off great too. Sales are up and we have many plants and great cut flowers.. so keep coming down. This week was our first week at Stowe.. it was cool and breezy but people purchased many plants and bouquets. Thank you for your continued support.

Waterbury Farmers Market is Starting this coming week May 21 from 3-7pm.. so come on down and visit with our new and returning vendors. For farms we have: 2 great organic veggie Farmers, Plants and cut flowers, Perennials, Bambi with her Lamb " everything but the bah" . Speciality items :East Shore Winery, Aurthur's Fault sauce and marinades, relishes and pickles, Pastabilities hand made pasta. Amazing Hand made: Painted clothing, jewelery, cards, pottery, sea glass jewelery, recycled items from bibs to envelopes. Lets not forget Patti D with her relaxing massages. As the season continues we will be having events such as face painting, animal days, a plant swap, solar energy booth, composting, weekly food drive for Waterbury food shelf and weekly music. So it is not just a market but a community event.

Happy gardening!!!

The Market Season has Begun

The Market season has begun. We are excited to be in Burlington this Saturday and Stowe on Sunday with our buckets of gourmet tulips, posies, bed plants and tomatoes plants.
There are flowers coming up everywhere.. the wild violets have taken over the grass and it is wonderful. Miscari, daffodils and tulips are everywhere. Alliums are pushing up there stalks and I think will be blooming in 2-3 weeks. Lilac buds are getting fat.

We harrowed in all the winter rye and broke two new fields. We will be tilling this comming week and I started transplanting cold tolerant crops. Nicole is extending the perennial patch to include more wood ornamental for winter markets. I am very excited about this bed because it is going to be ornamental as well as including edibles( blueberries.. just for personal consumption though). I have plans to put in a handsome stone wall and day lilies in front of that.

In the mean time Paul is back weeding wonderfully.. the perennials are grateful. And we have a new assistant Whitney who will be helping me at Burlington Farmers Market.

We are busy doing events for the next few weekends. So look for these pictures in the up comming weeks. Thank you, all for making mothers day a great success.. we hope all the mothers loved there bouquets.

Full with Daffodiles

Selection from our garden

Well , those 80 degree days made our garden pop with daffodils. Early and late daffys are blooming and we love it. The cut flower garden tulips are flushing with color and we started picking them and designing with them. We planted our first annual crop of the season.. Sunflowers.. yup you heard it right. We are hoping for some June sunflowers. They are under plastic in the field. Calendula, Stock and Goditia are next to go in on Friday. For Nicole's personal garden.. she is weeding the asparagus and putting in 25 more crowns. We are still seeding... and transplanting from cell trays to four packs, as you can see the tomato packs. So you can come by to get some great bedding plants. Don't forget May 9th Burlington Farmers Market we will help you get your Mom the perfect flowers..whether cut..hanging basket.. or bedding plants. Or... you can always drop by the farm.

The tulips have arrived

In the greenhouse, the tulip heads are begining to grow above there leaves and have a touch of color . We will start picking in time for the weekend. Nicole is chasing the woodchuck back to his hole nightly, guarding the new tulip patch. The garden is filled with daffodiles and hyacinths. The Wild tulips , more like a crocus then a tulip, are blooming in the back bed . Here is some tulip history about this small but important flower... The Tulip Humilis Violacea , is concidered Wild tulip most like the orginal tulips from Asia Minnor. These blubs were shipped to the Netherlands as a gift amongst other edible items. The reciever thought they were to be eatten .. they turned out not to tasty and made it into the garden. Thank goodness... imagine our lives without the modern tulip. These are what today large tulips were breed out of.. Find out more by reading Tulipmainia.