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This business is closed so I can focus on other pursuits. It's been fun. I am no longer operating this business. At some point, this page will be taken down.

During the entire period of seven years this was in operation, I worked full-time, and I continue to. I have always been a gardener and am enjoying my very large flower garden.

23/10/2025

The gomphrena and tomatoes and peppers are hanging on into autumn. It was indeed a banner year for apples; the trees were bowed down with them, but all were picked and shared. I write now, leaning against one of the apple trees (with Pearl climbing over my shoulder), grateful for its support, its life, its beauty.

23/04/2025

I meant to post about the apple trees while they were in bloom. We’ve taken them through two seasons of rehab pruning now, bringing them as close to a vase shape as we can and opening the centers so they can relax their shoulders and breathe. Bob sprayed them with his own mix of soapy oil at the proper stage, and they seem very well now. It may be a banner year for apples.

16/10/2024

I took these photos last night, but the garden still looks like this today. The frost didn’t take it; we are 250 feet above the river and protected by trees all around. High and dry. The North Lawrence garden zinnias are brown and finished, and I’ll let them stand until March for critters. In this, our first year in the new place, we put less effort into this year’s garden and set ourselves up for next year, with Bob bringing in several trailer loads of city compost and some manure to rot. We’ll prep the big area for vegetables and some rows of perennial flowers. The zinnia garden here will only take a little prep in spring, and North Lawrence is mostly in order. I’m not selling flowers, but I just want to grow them, lots of them. And possibly would do some flower work for trade sometimes. At the moment, Pearl kitty is out with me watching the sun set, and Bob is making the season’s first fire in the woodstove.

23/08/2024

Often on the way home from the office I stop at the North Lawrence garden and sit on my truck box for half an hour and watch butterflies. They are heavy feeders this time of day—monarchs and swallowtails and little swarms of skippers that move like schools of fish. More than halfway through this year, I wonder if I am getting just a little better at letting myself love what I love, maybe not try so hard to make it into something. Maybe. I used up most of the seeds I had left this year, just sowed them in blocks, in rows, because it was easy.

08/08/2024

Upon our return from the Oregon Cascades and Willamette Valley, we find the North Lawrence garden starting its show in this post-move catch-up year. If you go, I hope you’ll help yourself to some blooms—but be very careful (especially if kids are along) of all the sharp objects, trip hazards and upright rebar posts. I share this pure-zinnias image as I don’t think people are here to see my trip photos, though we saw community gardens, deep mysterious forests and artistic wonders. I might put some into Stories.

11/02/2024

As I make plans for this year’s garden, I wonder about a way to resume the Blue Morning Glory flower blog, which I took down with my business website last year. I’m thinking about making the blog a separate section of a larger writing website, putting the 50+ blog posts back up and continuing to write it, adding photos and other flower/garden content there. I wonder if that would be too fuzzy or kind of a cheat. Snowdrops have been up for at least a week in a little grove near the house.

08/02/2024

A friend, David, picked up the pillow in a secondhand store and passed it to me through .a.hering—so now it makes a collection with the secondhand mug gifted from a few years ago. Gratitude for the blessing of younger friends thinking of me, and for blue morning glories.

28/01/2024

Every time I leave here I feel more like I’m leaving home. This visit, has been a bridge for me. In my mind I walk these trails every day of the year.

19/01/2024

I’m noticing that in my annual selfie-in-the-desert I’m wearing the same shirt I wore last year. In an article shared on our rural neighborhood email list the writer pointed out that one way to lighten your environmental footprint is to choose clothes you’ll never want to stop wearing, and at the moment I’m wearing the same shirt for the third day in a row and some jeans my mom patched that are probably 15 years old. I know it’s my luck to do work that doesn’t require a wardrobe, and I should be saying something here about the Sonoran Desert or this great trail system instead of clothes. Or maybe about the hypocrisy of flying a plane to Tucson then going on about how I’m helping the earth by keeping my clothing consumption down or maybe about the coyotes I saw on the trail tonight.

09/01/2024

Looking out onto the white world from our upper deck this morning, I try to imagine it green and think of how we adjust gradually into each season. There are peonies under that snow, and snow never stays long here. We have slept here three nights now, camping, none of our rooms in order.

31/12/2023

As 2023 closes, I find a pathway forward. Just after we returned from England in late September (first photo is from Clovelly kitchen garden in North Devon), we found a place just north of Lawrence—nine acres and a house to our liking, with a shop and ground for a big vegetable and cutting garden and more—in the right place in the community we have known for decades. I looked for 25 years here, took long runs on these roads, did yoga right in the neighborhood. Maybe I didn’t know what to look for and see differently now. In a couple of weeks we’ll finish our move, and I think now I’ll keep this feed and make it a garden feed. Second photo shows our garden shed, not quite level and not quite put back together, in its new home. More to come for those still here.

06/09/2023

I don’t know how this flower feed grew to 2,000 people, but I am hoping those who are not just here for flowers will join me over at . I’m transitioning away from this feed and am so relieved not to be under pressure to grow flowers and make a business of it. I don’t know what I was thinking to stay at it so long though it didn’t make me happy, but I come from a long line of shoulder-to-grindstone people.

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Blue Morning Glory is a wedding and event florist working with clients in the Lawrence, Kansas-Kansas City area. Our floral design focuses on seasonal abundance, taking inspiration from the garden, fields and woodlands. To support our work, we grow many of our own materials--flowers, foliage, berries, herbs--and forage from our small farm. Our growing practices are low-tech and emphasize organic and local materials (including City of Lawrence compost). Please send a message via our Contact page at www.bluemorningglory.com. Instagram: @thebluemorningglory Photo: JD & Liana Works