Violet Syrup When I was a young girl there was a sunny little open patch in the woods behind our house where every Spring I would wait not so patiently for this warm little meadow to fill with trillium, a few Jack in the Pulpits and what seemed like millions of purple...

But it Feels Like Summer . . . This time of year we get warm spells that make us think it's time to hang up our winter coats and start shopping for bathing suits but don't head for the beach yet!  When it comes to flowers, our minds are racing to those pretty summer...

Lazy Flower Farmer I try to be as lazy a farmer as I can be . . but you know, that's not such a bad thing after all. If a flower likes to grow just by being scattered on some welcoming soil, why would I want to go to all the trouble of seeding it in trays, watching it...

Sweet Peas! Everyone's fragrant favorite and one of the founding flowers of Aunt Willie's. Even before we grew them up trellises in the hoop we gathered them from the roadside ditches in front of Aunt Willie's house where the old perennial varieties grew wild. We sold...

I never had the pleasure of meeting Roy's dad as he passed away before I "came along". . .  so when we discovered the flower journal he created for a school assignment in 1926 along with the  flower press he used, needless to say I was excited. Thirty-five wildflowers...

There's a special peace and a clean quiet beauty that accompanies a fresh blanket of snow. . .  full of the wonder of winter.  On a farm a quiet energy walks with that peace and beauty, always thinking of the growth to come and working forward. Winter farm tasks are...