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Foxglove Farmhouse is a seasonal cut flower garden in York, Maine.

04/24/2026

Maine spring ✨✨✨
April in Maine might = heartbreak hill in the Boston marathon

Easily the most difficult part of winter

03/30/2026

Maybe the tomatoes and the hollyhock and a gentle reset, a meditation in motion, an action-based calibration of the spirit. Maybe I’m overthinking things again, and a garden is just a garden. But I know this isn’t so. I know this is not true. Because gardens are rooted in resistance. They are stories of survival, sweeping landscapes of hope. They are all at once foolish and blind a million times over, and yet choatically beautiful. Gardens can be cruel or exclusionary, with walls around them or full of plants from faraway places. Meant to tell the story of victory, conquest, and colonization. But gardens are more often life-giving, feeding hungry mouths and calming swollen bellies. Or so very quiet, tended by a single person, who stands still for a moment in the chaos of life. A single person moved by the way the morning light runs along the spiderwebs, now dew-covered and glittering, on an average Tuesday morning. And so I will be quiet for a moment, and hope the gentle wind of March whispers something about color palette or structure into my dreaming mind, and what comes of that, really is anyone’s guess. And under Joan Baez’s suggestion, I’ll plan to spend 85% of my time for the next six months or so, in the dirt. And the other 10-15% doing something.

03/27/2026

I am old enough now to have children who hold memories of their childhood. Things like their favorite PBS television show or a long-lost stuffed animal. Together, we hold the memory of a few days in Paris. My son faking a limp and shouting Boujour to people from a hotel window. My daughter giggling, with two uneven pigtails, and gobbling still warm, fresh bread. The bright stone pathway between hedges of roses, in colors we had never before seen, trimmed with the utmost care in the Jardin du Palais Royal. All of us children at the same time. A memory I’ll hold on to for as long as my mind allows.

Later, I would learn that Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, the celebrated French writer and actress had lived in a small apartment at the Palais Royal. And it was here that, later in life, bedridden, she’d looked down upon the roses from her stuffy bedroom. The same roses that my pigtailed daughter swarmed around like a bee on a sunny day in June. It was Colette who wrote so beautifully,

“How I love this ideal flower bed of mine, with its sumptuous border of ‘ifs.’”

(Full story on substack)

03/23/2026

A big thank you to all the amazing people who have taken time to speak with me over the past month. Please enjoy some highlights, where things go a little off the rails. Because apparently podcasts are akin to a confession booth in my mind.
1) talking to about my laundry pile
2) Tori Amos chatter with and on the brilliant
3) botanical blunders with of who say kindly says, I love you for that ✨✨✨

03/15/2026

What is one of the very first flowers you can sow directly into the soil in early spring?!?!
It’s this love right here, Nigella!
This bloom makes an incredible textural addition to any bouquet, or leave it in place in the garden until it goes to seed pods.
Plant in full sun and sow every 2-3 weeks through out the growing season.
Seeds can be planted a good 2 weeks before your last frost date.
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02/13/2026

Coming to a city near you ✨✨✨
Im so excited and honored to be speaking at these incredible events and gardens.
I kick off next week in Seattle at the and I look forward to talking about finding inspiration for your garden by way of walks in the woods and works of art plus lots of tips and tricks to grow beautiful blooms all season long.
come say hi!!! Let’s grow flowers 🌿🌿🌿

02/06/2026

One of my favorite bits of writing in The Beginners Cut Flower Garden is a discussion about designing in the dark and creating with flowers through memories. By reducing light and calling forward long forgotten childhood memories of wandering the woods, I’m able to settle in place, and tell a story from my heart with flowers. Special thank you to and for reading this description and bringing it to life visually for the book. ✨✨✨✨

01/16/2026

2016 ✨✨✨
The year we quit our jobs and moved back to Maine.
In search of woods for the kids to play in, better work life balance, potluck dinners with no pretense, moxie, summer social events planned around the sway of the tide and a low bar dress code when grocery shopping.
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#2016

01/08/2026

Filed under garden inspiration: Mothers ✨✨✨

I just added this painting by my grandmother which depicts not only herself (far left) but her daughters and daughters in laws (my own mother seated next to her) to some slides for lectures I’ll be doing over the next few months.

I find the way women share knowledge with their friends, children, neighbors and sisters endlessly beautiful. Often while their children bear witness, as shown here.

The flowers I plant in my garden are inspired by the women who knelt down and shared a bloom with me, or spoke lyrically about their favorite iris variety with a twinkle in their eyes ❤️

What a gift to share the legacy of those before you by planting a garden ✨

01/03/2026

Happy New Year flower friends ✨✨
Over the next few weeks I’m going to be sharing my favorite flowers for cutting + their symbolism.
Are you hoping for more peace in your life? I’ve got a flower for that.
How bout hope or forgiveness?
Let’s plan a garden this year that is not only beautiful, but meaningful ❤️

Address

Scotland Bridge Road
York, ME
03909

Website

http://www.foxglovefarmhouse.com/

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