Farming food and flowers
My name is Kelli Lage , and I garden and farm alongside my husband , Ryan , in Iowa . I began garden five age ago when I met Ryan . He have it away the ins and outs to planting and has share his Brobdingnagian noesis with me over time . My favorite part is being able to tend to the earth with someone I love and seeing new life come forth .
Black - eye Susans ( Rudbeckiafulgida , Zones 4–9 ) are the paradigm of gay summertime flowers ..
Marigolds ( Tageteserecta , yearly ) are one of the toughest annuals out there , producing their gay yellow blooms no matter what .
Clearly Kelli and Ryan know how to develop tomato . My back talk is watering !
Rosyapplesfresh from the tree .
Dew on a fragrant rose .
A variety of promising yearly flower together . A pinkish zonal geranium ( Pelargoniumhybrid , yearly ) in the back and a purple cape primula ( Streptocarpushybrid ) mixing with the yellow-bellied marigolds .
Looking up at the front threshold of the house over the bright peak of abegoniaand a geranium .
Zinnias ( Zinniaelegans , annual ) come in nearly every coloring material of the rainbow except blue . If you need to save seeds from your zinnias to raise again next class , be sure to gather seeds from your preferred works to see to it that the colors and form you like best are in next yr ’s crop of flowers .
A fragile , old - fashioned - looking rose with soft pinkish petals .
A bumblebee fuels up on a imperial coneflower ( Echinaceapurpurea , Zones 3–9 ) . This type of salad days is what is called a composite flower . What look like one prime is actually many bantam flowers packed tightly together . Each of the lilliputian little pinkish spike is actually a small , individual flower , each with pollen and nectar for bee and other pollinators .
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