This Week in Wildflower Gardening

A great article about the 23 year history of American Meadows and our Vermont Wildflower Farm appears in the June issue of Plus Magazine, published on California's "Central Coast", the San Luis Obispo region. Thanks go to Linda Owen, the writer, for a really nice article.

Famous CBS newsman Charles Osgood, who hosts both a Sunday morning TV show and also weekday radio broadcasts, is completing a series of radio comments on Wildflower Seeds, and how planting "invasive species" can be prevented in wildflower meadows. We were contacted to be one of the seed companies consulted, and I recently completed the interviews in Vermont. Listen for it during the next few weeks on The Osgood File, broadcast weekday mornings on CBS radio affiliates all over the country.

If you've ever visited our Vermont Wildflower Farm in May, you know all about it. The reason for our location choice is the incredible natural woodland garden at the back of our acreage. The Hepaticas (see below) are long gone, but now our brook is a river of gold with Marsh Marigold bloom. And more important, our huge stand of Great White Trillium is beginning to open. Opening pure white, and then "pinking" as they age, these are the stars every spring, along with the ferns and yellow violets that bloom with them. The flowers in our fields won't begin for another month or so. But the wildflower wave that began in the Southwestern Deserts in February is now complete. Spring is here from coast to coast. Hooray!

First week in May! It's a celebration begun by our friend Edward Piela of Massachusetts, and now hosted by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Pay them a visit at the link above.

Great News! We've just added 15 brand new wildflowers to our Wildflower Encyclopedia this month. Some are the more hard-to-find wildflowers such as Eastern Red Columbine (photo), Desert Marigold, California Blazing Star, and others. But we've also added some old-fashioned favorites our members keep asking for: Zinna, Sweetpea, Morning Glory, Nasturtium and Hollyhock are all old favorites many members want to grow in their meadows or cutting gardens. So go to the Wildflower Encyclopedia and check out all the new flowers.