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Emma Dickenson
- Feb 28
- 2 min
2020 in Flowers: a look back over the season
So 2020 is over. 2020 was. a. year. To be honest, I've forgotten how the year started. I don't remember learning that we weren't going to have our traditional farmers' market in Market Square. I barely remember setting up the online shop here on the website. What a strange "new normal." But we can't forget the flower season, can we? It was too beautiful to be forgotten. In order to brighten up your January, we're doing a look back on our favorite moments from the flower fa
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Emma Dickenson
- Nov 6, 2020
- 2 min
Foothills Parkway Styled Shoot
Oh y'all are in for a treat! Napping Cat Flower Farm + Wildfire Hearts Photography styled shoot! My dear friend Emily reached out to me the other day with a need for flowers. She had a styled shoot scheduled one morning on the Foothills Parkway and needed something to match the mood for her vision. Emily sent me a beautiful Pinterest board with the dress, makeup, flowers, and all the pretty details of what she planned for the shoot. But, the thing with Pinterest is that you o
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Emma Dickenson
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
Dahlias
Oh it's been such a pretty fall. I wrote about it in my last post...but I might have changed my favorite season to fall. The dahlia season has caught us a little by surprise. It's been beautiful! The blooms have been relatively insect bite free. Some of the dahlias are dinner plate size! Others are round and cute and compact. It's a beautiful variety. I keep thinking it's going to be the last harvest... and then more blooms keep coming. If only this could continue through
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Emma Dickenson
- Oct 6, 2020
- 3 min
Farm Update: Fall 2020
It's fall in East Tennessee and what a stunning fall it is. When people say that fall is their favorite season, I can't agree with them, but only because fall seems so short to me. I'm partial to summer honestly. I absolutely love fall, but I always feel like right when we're settling in to the cooler and less humid days and chilly nights, suddenly it's winter. But right now I'm enjoying myself immensely and will enjoy the autumn weather while it lasts. My roommate and I ha
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Emma Dickenson
- Sep 16, 2020
- 3 min
Max Patch Wildflowers
I took a spontaneous trip up to a bald in North Carolina called Max Patch earlier this week. If you have never visited before, you absolutely should. Pack a blanket, picnic, a camera, maybe some wine (is that allowed...) Anyway, it's such a beautiful place for the sunrise and sunsets. Of course when I visit, I try to plan it when there are flowers blooming! It makes me so happy to see pops of color everywhere. The pollinators love it too. Walking up the trail to the bald
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Emma Dickenson
- Jul 20, 2020
- 2 min
Farm Update: July
Oh to be in drought season... It's HOT out there in East Tennessee these days. Most days are about 95 degrees or above with a heat index of 100 degrees at least! Not to mention the humidity....! The mosquitoes (AKA prehistoric pterodactyl-sized death creatures) have been terrible in the garden. They like to hide in the field in the tall plants and grasses and attack you while you're harvesting flowers. They can also get you through your clothes. Absolutely horrifying. They'
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Emma Dickenson
- Jun 14, 2020
- 2 min
Farm Update: June 2020
We're finally transitioning out of spring and into summer flowers! Not that I don't love spring flowers. I LOVE spring flowers. Ranunculus, larkspur, stock... all the cool weather flowers that are such a relief to see after a long winter. But now the HOT weather flowers are coming in: sunflowers, scabiosa, yarrow, statice, and so many more. I'm stoked. So for you curious flower lovers, I'm gonna take you through what's in the garden now! First up, Sunflowers! Sunflowers are
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Emma Dickenson
- May 26, 2020
- 2 min
The Sweet Pea Forest
Although every year is different, this year has been extremely unique. It seems like several of our flower crops have been much bigger and healthier than previous seasons. It's really neat to see! One of the crops doing unusually well are the sweet peas! We made sure to build sturdy structures so that the sweet peas had plenty to climb. We've been doing our best to keep up with harvesting in order to encourage more blooms. We had a difficult start to the sweet pea season be
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Emma Dickenson
- May 1, 2020
- 2 min
Farm Update: Spring 2020
What a strange Spring it has been so far. Who could have expected the world to change this much in a matter of months? So much uncertainty, fear, and ups and downs. It's been a rollercoaster ride for sure. I never dreamed that I wouldn't return to school after Spring break. The transition to online classes was surreal. It brought many challenges of having to try and stay organized while receiving what seemed like 100 email updates each day from professors who were scrambl
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Emma Dickenson
- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
Ranunculus Time in Tennessee!
We've waited so long for this. And now the time is finally HERE!! If you don't know, these beauties are called ranunculus. a.k.a. little rainbow easter egg unicorns of happiness. I don't really call them that but they are pretty much magical. Most people don't have the opportunity to see what we see in the flower field. The way they look altogether in the field, the way the sunlight comes through and illuminates them in the evenings, and watching them transform from a tight s
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Emma Dickenson
- Mar 30, 2020
- 1 min
Embracing Seasonality: pt 2
I enjoyed roaming the yard while the sun was setting. I felt like a little kid again. I could smell the crabapple tree in our front yard and realized it took me right back to the days I used to climb it. My dad used to climb the tree with me. My cats would even join in if you can believe it; Whisper, Casey, and Hazel all liked to participate in whatever I was doing in the yard. I used to pick tulips from our front yard, too. Even before we had our flower farm, I still had
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Emma Dickenson
- Mar 30, 2020
- 2 min
First Buds of the Season
This has been a looong winter. I think a lot of you flower-lovers will agree with that. It's been wet, gloomy, cloudy, rainy, soggy..... But now, what you've all been waiting for..... The First Real Buds of the Season are here!! Of course, I jumped on the opportunity to photograph any signs of life in the field. These pictures were taken the week of March 8th. I decided to make a bouquet of all the pretty things blooming in the yard that week. Daffodils, peach tree blossoms,
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Emma Dickenson
- Sep 21, 2019
- 1 min
Dahlias...
Ah. Dahlias. What do you think of when you think of them? Cool weather? Leaves starting to turn and fall? It hasn't exactly been easy to grow them this season with some extremely hot temperatures and lack of rainfall... thanks Tennessee. However, with Mom's diligent watering we have gotten some pretty GORGEOUS blooms. The warm corals are my absolute favorite... They remind me of the ranunculus crop in the Spring. It's kind of a way to come full circle; ranunculus as our fir
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Emma Dickenson
- Sep 2, 2019
- 1 min
Lisianthus: The elegant beauty of late summer
It's now September and our official flower-selling season is over. When we walk through the garden it has a late summer feel, the evening light is a bit different than high summer, and the fall wildflowers pop-up around the edges of the flower rows. Now all we have are memories of the July and August humidity and photographs to see that the magic really did happen! Here's a look back at one of our favorite crops: Lisianthus. Lisianthus have an amazing vase life. People at the
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Emma Dickenson
- May 5, 2019
- 1 min
First Farmers' Market of the Season!
Today was our first Farmers' Market of the 2019 season! We're so thankful the rain held off and gave us a beautiful, sunny morning of selling flowers! We had beautiful bouquets with bells of Ireland, poppies, peonies, sweet peas, clematis, delphinium, forget-me-nots, and stock. It was the last week of ranunculus...until next year! Summer blooms are on their way in the garden. If you missed us this week, stop by next week and grab a bouquet for Mother's Day! If you've never be
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Emma Dickenson
- Apr 17, 2019
- 4 min
The Garden in Film
Photography has been a hobby of mine for a couple years now. I remember walking around the garden when I was in high school and snapping shots of flowers I thought were cool with my phone. Later in high school, my senior year I think, I took a photography class. I remember making my own pin hole camera and going outside and taking pictures in the parking lot. We got bonus points if we managed to capture clouds (thanks Ms. Cedeño). I feel like we could only take one picture
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Emma Dickenson
- Apr 14, 2019
- 2 min
Ranunculus Pop-up at Wild Love
We had our first pop-up of the season at Wild Love Bakehouse Saturday morning! We had almost perfect weather while harvesting the ranunculus from the field... you can go check out my previous blog post if you want to go check out some amazing pictures of the ranunculus harvest! After making bundles of ranunculus, we loaded up the van. Thanks to the cloudy skies and cool weather, they held their tight little buds! Although Saturday started out rainy, the ranunculus were the p
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Emma Dickenson
- Apr 13, 2019
- 2 min
The Ranunculus Harvest
I feel like the first 12 days of April have been an absolute BLUR. Suddenly, I mean really suddenly, everything is turning green. And I'm so excited. This also means that the ranunculus are HERE so prepare yourselves for beautiful photo overload on the blog and instagram! I mean, just look at these guys... Oh, but hang on. I know they're stunning in the field and just by themselves, but the real magic happens when the harvest begins. I honestly cannot decide what I like bett
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Emma Dickenson
- Apr 8, 2019
- 3 min
Casey
We had a loss on the farm this week. One of our beloved napping cats passed away. Here's my version of her story: I'm not sure how old I was when we got Casey, but I do remember my parents showing up with two kittens when they returned from a bike ride one day. One was long-haired and gray, Whisper, with a slight bend on the end of his tail and piercing green eyes. The other was Casey. She was short-haired and sandy colored and also had beautiful green eyes. I'm not sure
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