![]() ![]() Lots of snaps, sweet William, sweet peas, and zinnias. I grow the basics - sunflowers, celosia of all hues and forms, including our favorite, Johnny's 'Sylphid'. I grow 40 different varieties throughout the season. I no longer grow what I love I grow what sells week-after-week with the least amount of fanfare. I have simplified my business model to better enjoy this journey of farming. Lisa, after nearly two decades as a flower farmer, can you summarize your philosophy? The hardiest and the last to bloom, she notes, are the 'Rocket' snapdragons. The first snaps to bloom, in April in Lisa's Zone 7 garden, are those in the tall, sturdy 'Chantilly' Series. I recently conducted this Q&A to learn more from this successful SlowFlowers member. And for flower farmers, that means you can bring beautiful flowers to market (and thereby generate income) just as early.Īny time of year is a good time to start planning your "cool flowers," Lisa says. As Lisa points out, once their needs are met, this diverse, easy-to-grow group of flowers will bloom weeks earlier than typical spring-planted annuals. Lisa turned one of her favorite lecture topics - planting hardy annual flowers in the fall - into a book titled Cool Flowers, and has also published Vegetables Love Flowers, which is all about creating harmony between cut-flower gardens and organic vegetable gardens.Ĭool Flowers explains how and when to plant hardy annuals successfully, either in fall or very early spring. Her lectures have reached from Texas to New York City - far beyond anywhere she ever imagined. Lisa spends much of her off-the-farm time teaching others about organic gardening and growing cut flowers. She sells to upscale florists in both her town and nearby Williamsburg, and direct-to-consumers with a members-only Garden Share program for about 120 subscribers. She farms intensively and organically on about 1½ cultivated acres of open field, producing 10,000 to 15,000 stems a week in season (mid-April to mid-November). ”Īt The Gardener's Workshop, an urban farm in Newport News, Virginia, Lisa Mason Ziegler has grown cut flowers since 1998. A rock legend track I am proud to own and one of rock's most eccentric lyrical excursions.“ Hardy annuals naturally develop and grow into strong plants when they have opportunity to do it during cool conditions. Played live, two of the verses have been dropped I note ("Georgia Sam," who I think is actually a veiled reference to Robert Johnson, and "Louis the King"). But I agree with her, a series of wonderfully bizarre tales (five in all) linked together by Johnny Winter's fantastic high speed electric guitar. This track was reviewed on YouTube recently and, much to my amazement, the young woman reviewing it (and absolutely loving it) who was "blown away by the lyrics" failed to acknowledge that this was originally a Bob Dylan song and that those lyrics were his. The lyrics are nearly as amazing as the musicianship, and to that we can thank the composer, Bob Dylan. ![]() half the material from Johnny Winter and the other half from brother Edgar. It would not be until the CD age came into full bloom that I would find one with this former track. to a university-run record store to buy it as local stores did not carry it. at age 16 and without a car or access to one. When the reel-to-reel could no long play, I searched in vain for the album, but would have had to travel some distance away. my second favorite blues rock song after "Crossroads" by Cream (which I had on vinyl). In any event, what this meant was that only for another four months would this song get a lot of play. Looking back I think there should have been a "phasing in" transitional period like the one that saw vinyl gradually replaced by CDs. This despite the fact that the quality of sound reproduction on reel-to-reels was superior to what was found on the original cassettes. the AC cord would soon be in need of replacement and cassette players and cassette player/recorders were quickly rendering reel-to-reels (and their parts and accessories) obsolete in most stores. What I didn't know was the days on my recorder/player were numbered. it was the first and last time I would ever hear of what was a two-album set, with the second album blank on the B side (like many of the old 78 rpms were). ![]() "Three-sided" according to the disk jockey. Another treasured track I managed to record off of FM radio to reel-to-reel tape back in October '69 at the time this "three-sided" album titled "Second Winter" was released. ![]()
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