Our seeds from Johnny's and Thompson & Morgan have arrived so Tom and I are building our seed cataloging and seed starting list today. Please let me know if you have a better seed tracking and seed starting scheduling tool http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=prKTQCa3BgcGh3C_57UDtUw&hl=en




I have spent hours scouring the net for seeds for this tall yellow beauty solidago canadensis...there must be a lot of sources for this seed, but I haven't found them. I would be very appreciative if you can tell me where to find them.







Tom and I are riding our bikes more and even with the chilly wind, it's fun to tour the trails and bike paths around Sequim as well as the rest of the Olympic Peninsula. The other day we rode along the Olympic Waterfront trail and enjoyed the eagles as well as a pair of otters swimming near shore.

Clallam County Farm Tour


Does it get better than this? We hope these little ones will long treasure the memories of gathering armloads of flowers on a warm sunny fall day...maybe they will become avid gardeners too and enjoy creating gardens filled with scent, color and beauty just as Tom and I do.


Fall Colors at the Cutting Garden

We have just held our last wedding for the summer of 2007. Though it was overcast and cool, everyone stayed dry and had a great time - impressive since the local weather forecasters were expecting gale force winds and 2"-4" of rain.

Right after the wedding Tom and I and our neighbor Mary Sue took the big top down for the year. We were glad to get it packed away in a dry condition since we expect a solid week of rain between now and next Sunday when we will be leaving for our annual vacation in the desert South West.

Next Saturday The Cutting Garden will once again be one of 9 farms on the Clallam County farm tour. We love to have all the young families come by to cut free flowers. It's our "grand finale" to the season.
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The Cutting Garden Sequim, Washington


Thursday June 14, 2007
Good morning,
Today we will remove hundreds of allium from the gardens; they seeded themselves too freely last summer and though they were showy this spring, we need the garden space for other beauties. We were featured in a stunning 4 page article in the June issue of Sunset magazine and we are greeting many more visitors to the garden than usual so we want the gardens to look just a spectacular in person as they do in the magazine.

In the studio, I am signing, measuring and photographing some of the paintings I created this past winter in preparation for framing them. I am excited about a couple of them in particular because they are looser and more free than my usual work. This painting, called Cloisinee Cabbage and was created from photos I took last summer in my friend's vegetable garden.