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Happy first day of spring! 🌷🌈

Wishing everyone a beautiful planting season 🌱—won’t be long until the lavender is in full purple bloom. 🪻

These photos are a little throwback to our trip last spring to the stunning Butchart Gardens—always an inspiration! 🌸

#spring #ahhh #butchartgardens #methowvalleylavender #flowers #flowersmakemehappy

Resharing so I can tag the very talented embroidery artist. 🌿

Thank you @embroiderybysabrina!💗

It is the sweetest, and I love it so much!! 💜💜💜

It’s sweet pea planting time! ✨💖

Grandma wasted no time putting my niece and me to work. She’s been growing sweet peas for over 40 years, and her greatest gift to us is passing down her wisdom so we can keep the tradition alive—filling our summers with fragrant, colorful bouquets. Last year, our sweet peas thrived so well that we were still making bouquets into September. I even snipped the very last one in the first week of October!

Here’s to another season of beautiful blooms! 🌱💕

Grandma’s Method 🌿

Take a 6” tall seed pot with drainage holes, pack the bottom inch with Happy Frog Soil (Grandma swears by this soil), and loosely fill the pot up to about two inches from the top. Use a good seedling mix, we used Black Gold. Mix it with water in a bucket to moisten the soil, it should be moist, not soaked. Add about a 1/2 inch layer of the seedling mix to the top of your Happy Frog Soil, add two sweet pea seeds opposite each other in the pot (one in each corner will do), and loosely cover the seeds with more seedling mix. Lightly pat the soil down to help hold the seeds in place. Lower grow lights to about 3 or so inches above the pots. Check on them daily and keep the soil damp with a spray bottle as to not over water or disturb the soil.

Then the hardest part, wait.

Sidenote, Grandma collected seeds from various sources. I look forward to planting my own Sweet Peas with the wonderful seed I have from @backtodirtfarm. 💜

We will keep you updated on this year’s crop. ☀️🌈

Dearest Gentle Reader,

It is with great delight that I report on the most enchanting affair of the afternoon—a gathering of three most esteemed ladies at none other than Fleur de Thé, the city’s most exquisite purveyor of fine teas.

Adorned in their finest frocks and graced with the kind of laughter that turns heads (and stirs whispers), these radiant darlings indulged in delicate lavender-infused delights, warm scones dripping with honey, and, of course, the most fragrant of teas served in porcelain fit for a duchess.

It is said that the bonds of sisterhood are best strengthened over steaming cups and whispered confidences, and indeed, this afternoon proved no exception. What secrets were shared? What romances discussed? Ah, dear reader, some mysteries are best left to the imagination…

Yours in devotion and delightful scandal,
Lady Whistledown (or perhaps, merely an admirer of her craft)

#AfternoonTea #LavenderElegance #bridgertonstyle #tearoom #fleurdethé #stlouis #friends #methowvalleylavender #lavender

We can do it!

I am at Stevens Pass as I write this, and it is beautiful. It is a winter wonderland: mountain peaks, snow-covered trees, and skiers shredding. It’s spectacular!

But I love spring. And, I am so excited for the growing season and all that this new, fresh year has in store for our little lavender farm.

75 days… 💜

#methowvalleylavender #spring #winter #stevenspass #lavender