Tending Peonies - A Basic Grower's Guide Peonies mark summer. As the weather turns warm, the earth roars quietly back. Suddenly, there are colors. The trees spring into bloom, and the tendrils of grass push up. The... Read More
Don't Squeeze the Bud: Three Ways to Extend the Life of Your Cut Peony Nothing marks the gentle return of summer like a peony. At Bear Creek Farm, we are obsessed with this extraordinary flower - and always moved to write about them. Their... Read More
Self Care and Finding Ourselves in Nature At Bear Creek Farm, we nurture (natural) beauty from the ground up. Perhaps an unstated extension of that ethos is our wish to cultivate (personal) beauty from the inside out. Indeed,... Read More
Seed to Bloom - Cultivating Beauty from the Ground Up Tantalizing in their similarity to earthen jewels, seeds are another reminder that the loveliest things come in the smallest of packages. Propagating a flower from seed is both simple and... Read More
Dahlias: A How-To Guide from Beginning to End and then Beginning Again Few flowers seem to catch that late-summer-into-early-fall shimmer quite like a dahlia. In an extraordinary nod to the ever-dynamic wonders of nature, the subtle hues of dahlias – throwing royal... Read More
Winter Beauty During a February ice storm that has gripped the Northeast, the tree branches, encased in diamond sheaths, drip and glisten in the sunlight. Winter colors are a treat, because they... Read More
The Wild Spirit of Flowers Temperatures cool and fall foliage explodes in the northeast. Gardeners take a moment to catch their collective breath - alongside the falling crimson leaves set against a sapphire sky. Finally,... Read More
The Bloom is Ever Present on the Dahlia This year for gardeners was really tough. The northeast has been pummeled with heavy rain. Temperatures have run high. Rain and heat make sustained garden work difficult as soil damage is... Read More
