Starting Seeds At Home With Seed Savers Exchange
Our Foundry Family is full of garden lovers.
Our Foundry Family is full of garden lovers.
Like many families, the Foundry Family tree is rooted in many star-crossed coincidences, overlapping connections, and seemingly random but universe-encouraged right-place-right-time-right-person good fortunes. We also have the (truly incredible) benefit of being able to grow fruitful branches cross-pollinated with members of our *actual* born families, all budding and blossoming together with our chosen crew.
When the earliest green shoots of crocuses and daffodils start to poke their heads...our hearts sing! These signs of spring are also signs of renewal, hope, and the endless capacity for small miracles—if you just pay attention.
A dear friend once told us that the time to prune is when the shears are in your hand. A time for everything and everything in its time. We have often used this piece of gentle advice as a salve for the times when we perhaps didn't deadhead as much as we should or we neglected to cut back the azaleas three years in a row. The time to do it? When the shears are in your hand? That's the right time