It’s National Dog Month! Our regular customers know we're huge fans of dogs here at Lilygrass. If you come visit our shop, chances are you'll be greeted by one of our shop dogs, behind a closed gate, looking for some extra pets because the owner, Alicia brings her 2 dogs to work everyday, Rosco and Baloo.
Anemones might make you think of clownfish and crashing waves, but the name also belongs to a flower in the buttercup family. With wide petals on delicate, wiry stems, anemones are some of the earliest perennials to grace gardens each year. Also known as windflowers, they feature soft shades of white with occasional touches of purple and pink.
Getting flowers from a loved one on a special occasion — like an anniversary, graduation, birthday, or holiday — is always a beautiful thing that brings smiles to many faces. But have you ever felt a little sad when that beautiful bouquet starts to show signs of wilting?
Stock flowers may sound like a generic name for a generic bloom, but these statuesque beauties are anything but. Known as brompton stock, gillyflower, hoary stock, and ten-week stock, these fun florets are a long-time favorite of gardeners and floral designers.
With April showers come peony flowers! Peonies bloom from April through June and are a long-time favorite of spring and early summer brides. Symbolizing prosperity, good luck, love, and honor, peonies are popular gifts of love and markers of prosperous beginnings that line chapel halls around the world.
Mother’s Day is just around the corner. Summer is on its way, and warmer weather usually brings busier schedules. Just be sure to pencil in some time to celebrate all those hard-working moms in your life! Need a few ideas? We have some!
If you happen to pass by a cottage on a lazy summer day, take a moment to stop and smell the flowers. One of the blooms you will probably smell is sweet pea. Their pretty pink petals are often found spilling out of baskets and milk cans or mounded in garden beds and window boxes. Sweet pea blooms are easy to grow and continue to bloom continuously throughout the spring season. They are the official birth month flower for April.
With April showers come beautiful flowers… spring has arrived! One of our favorite things about spring is the surprise wildflower clusters that pop up along the side of the road and in those little cracks in the sidewalk. It is such a sweet surprise and the perfect illustration of something beautiful breaking through the barriers of past challenges, filling us with hope for a fresh new year full of possibilities.
