One of my favorite harbingers of spring is the annual opening of Cheshire’s Tower Farms. From April through December, the garden center offers a parade of botanical delights from daffodils and pansies to ornamental grasses and fall mums, ending the year with an array of Christmas trees (mostly Frasier firs and some balsams). Overall, customers […]
Tag Archives: flowers
Petals and Roots
Renowned horticulturist Luther Burbank (1849-1926), creator of the popular Shasta daisy and hundreds of other cultivars, reportedly wrote, “Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.” (more…)
Unsecret Garden
A photo essay. To view all the images, check out the email edition. The garden at the front of the Yale Farm is naturally inviting, which could help explain why the farm’s minders felt the need to hang a sign on the gate. “Until further notice, the Yale Farm is closed to the public,” it […]
Flora and Fauna
After a cold, wet spring, B&B Flower Farm seems ready for summer. The rain has helped, leaving the sloping lawn so green it looks photoshopped. “B&B” stands for Bob and Barbara, as in (more…)
Petalworking
Spring has come, and flowers are blooming. Yards and medians bob with daffodils, and the cherry blossom trees in Wooster Square are budding, promising petal showers any moment. (more…)
Here Today
… and gone tomorrow, or close to it. Every spring, the blooms of New Haven’s flashiest trees come and go in the span of about a week apiece. Staggered across two or three weeks (more…)
Fall Break
The calendar tells us it’s fall. So do scattered batches of leaves turning red and orange and yellow and weather map temperatures dipping into green and blue. Thousands of flowering (more…)
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