Yellowhawk Creek Gardens: A Wedding Gift

A Wedding Gift for My Niece

I love to garden! It's become a bit of an obsession for me and although I'm no pro, I somehow worked up the courage to offer to grow flowers for my niece's wedding. I was honored when she agreed and so we started started the planning (and planting) process!

January - The planning begins!

The big day is only 140 days away - June 21st!!

After looking through gardening books, magazines and seed catalogs these were just some of the flowers that Kirsten and I selected:

b Zinnias A Scabiosia v Queen Anne's Lace

o Stock v Lisianthus A Love in Mist b Feverfew

b Poppy A Cosmos vCelosia

My garden journal lists the flowers by name, height, days to bloom, and color.

February - seedlings are started indoors and new outdoor raised

beds are constructed - the future home for all of these flowers.

March - The outdoor planting begins! Just to be safe, several

varieties were directly sowed outside and hoop houses constructed

over the raised beds.

April - The wedding flowers all tucked away in their own little mini

greenhouses!

May - The flowers are coming along nicely!! Every day the sun is

shining is a good day!! Our spring was a little lacking this year! For late

summer interest (after the wedding) hog panels were added to the

rows of the raised beds and small pumpkins and gourdes will grow up

and over them..

June 21st - The BIG day!! - my mom and daughter were there to lend

a helping hand with the cutting and arranging. Our yard was bursting

with flowers with color! Not only were the flowers that were grown

for the wedding ready, but we had plentiful perennials from our garden

flower beds!