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Willow & Mabel Garden Co. Willow & Mabel Garden Co I am an English transplant living outside of Seattle, USA. Well, it did not beat us. I am very nervous and very excited too.

For most of my life I have enjoyed growing vegetables and flowers but just as a hobby and a way to relax after a day at the office. A couple of years ago, my husband and I and our two teenage boys moved from our beautiful self-built house into a 100 year old dilapidated farm house on 5 acres of land. I think that everyone thought that we were crazy and had taken on a DIY project bigger than even m

y carpenter husband could tackle. My husband and two teenage boys, with help from lots of friends, transformed that dilapidated farm house into a wonderful, welcoming home that we are all so happy living in. Last year I was flicking though a magazine and came across an article about two women who gave up their office jobs and followed their dream of becoming farmer-florists. I read, and re read this article and thought how I would love to do that. The magazine article floated around my head for weeks thinking about it. I mentioned it to my husband, who never shy’s away from a challenge and he said “what are you waiting for? Do it!”

So here I am making my first tentative steps towards achieving my dream. The fear of failure keeps churning in my stomach, but as my husband says, “what is the worst that can happen? – We will have a lovely flower garden and green house.” I cannot afford to dive into this as a full time project but I am going to make baby steps towards that goal with the help and support of my family. So that is how Willow & Mabel Garden Co. started – which is lovingly named after our two Pygmy Goats! Now you can follow my muddy footsteps down this road & see what happens. As I was told recently – “Never die not knowing”.

04/24/2025

La Belle Epoque tulip ~ the most beautiful of them all…..cascading out of my new ceramic vase purchased at the Marina Del Ray farmers market this weekend. I love everything about this.

04/22/2025

A little peek into what is growing around here. These are all from my personal garden…I am really trying to not neglect that this year…it has taken a back seat for so many years…but it is amazing what will happen when you have your sons wedding on your farm this summer- you really have to get your s**t together!

Slide 1 & 2: tulip charming beauty
Slide 3: Lilac trees starting to bloom
Slide 4: David Austin Rose~ Contented Gardener looking absolutely fab
Slide 5: The first apple blossom ✨
Slide 6 & 7: violas have my heart- but which variety this is I could not tell you

04/14/2025

Some of the daffodils from around the farm for your Monday.

daffodils: (in no particular order)
Cheerfulness
Sir Windston Churchill
Replete
British Gamble
Geranium

Cigar Holder from

04/08/2025

Last shout out for dahlia tubers. My online dahlia store will be closing on Friday for the year. If you would like to snag some dahlia tubers that can either be shipped or picked up from the farm head on over to my website.

Dahlias:
Daddy’s Girl
Strawberry Cream
Polka
Kogane Fabuki
Cafe Au Lait

Photography

04/04/2025

This week has been all about dahlia tubers. This truly is a labor of love. Whilst my farm is still small compared to a lot of flower farms (and I am happy keeping it that way ✨) We pulled dahlia tubers for each order, inspected them for eyes, packed them and prepared them for shipping. Any farmer that sells dahlia tubers will tell you how much work this is. All the tubers will be shipped out next week to grow beauty in al corners of the country. I am so grateful for my team ~ Shannon, Penny & Katie - could not do this without you.

Dahlia: Kelgai Ann

04/01/2025

Currently sitting in the middle of our kitchen table are these beautiful narcissus daffodils. I love them so much it even inspired me to clear away all the paperwork that has been piling up on the table so they could have pride of place.

Nothing better that daffodils to cheer up a grey March day - I don’t think this will be the last time that they feature on my little gride.

03/24/2025

One of my favorite chores of the day is taking care of the chickens. Over the years we have had bad luck with eagles taking them. Last year I changed the set up and a fence was built so they couldn’t wonder around over 5 acres and up and down the lane. They still have plenty of room and shelter from prey under the trees in their enclosure. It seems to have worked really well as I have not lost a chicken in over a year now. The greatest reward is a basket full of eggs.

03/20/2025

The first day of Spring…you can feel it in the air and see all the changes that are happening in nature. The sheep have been sheared here on the farm and are loving their new found freedom. The daffodils are blooming along with the first of the blossom. We are getting 4 seasons in one day which is a sure sign of spring and my “to do list” is about a mile long!

03/16/2025

Simple bowl Sunday…from a wet & blustery day in the PNW but Spring is so close we can almost touch it!

03/15/2025

The big dahlia tuber sales are stressful…I have to be honest it was easier getting Taylor Swift tickets than the tubers on my list this year!

I am just a small little farm and I have some beautiful dahlias left in my store including Brown Sugar which I love. She is a strong, reliable dahlia that produces so many blooms and then tubers at the end of the year - and perfect for those autumn boquets - PLUS it is Parker from favorite dahlia so it must me good!!

Hop on over to my website to see the dahlias varieties that I have left. ✨

03/14/2025

The last couple of weeks has been a seed sowing frenzy around here. The greenhouse is full of so many seed babies.

If starting seeds from scratch is not your thing or you don’t have the time or space I have the perfect solution. I am excited to announce that I am starting several collections of cut flower starts that you can purchase on my website. They will be ready to pickup from my farm at our Spring Market in May.

The link to my shop is In the comments below ✨

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03/10/2025

The sun came out..and everything felt a little bit better!!

However, some of us are in need of a haircut…we have one sheep shearer on the Kitsap Peninsula so you have to book ahead…the girls have one more week to wait and they are going to be a lot lighter and might possibly be able to see where they are going!

03/07/2025

Several years ago I started to dabble with dried flowers or everlasting flowers as I prefer to call them - less connotations with dusty flowers from the ‘80s and your great aunt Mildred. I guess you could call strawflowers my gateway drug into everlasting flowers. From those experimental days of drying flowers to today I have always loved the crinkly texture and vibrant colors, they will always have a place in my field.

Yesterday the first trays of strawflowers were sewn. Germination tips…fresh seed and they need light to germinate so only a very light dusting of vermiculite.

03/05/2025

Yesterday was spent in the greenhouse. The first really big planting session ~ if you don’t count the sweet peas. Listening to the rain beat down on the outside of the greenhouse was oddly comforting. Usually BBC Radio is humming along in the background but for our mental health we have decided that we can not listen to this at the moment as the news on the hour ever hour is too much to bear. Planting seeds is to look to the future and believe that everything will be OK as hard as it seems right now. Wrapping ourselves in nature is possibly the best solution.

In the little square is Bronze Fennel which I love for fresh arrangements and drying, it adds a little sparkle.

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03/03/2025

What a weekend….in so many different ways! I launched my dahlia tuber sale on Saturday…thank you so much to all of you that purchased dahlia tubers from my farm. I hope that you love them just as much as I do. I actually launched the sale whilst I was in England. Sadly my mother-in-law passed away recently and her Celebration of Life was the same weekend as my tuber sale. Was I nervous that something might go wrong whilst I was sitting in a hotel built in 1720….yes very!! Was I tired yes definitely- I never advise flying to Europe for 2 days….but I am so glad to say that everything went without a hitch. Mi Mi would be proud!

I do still have some dahlia tubers available for purchase so hop on over to my website to see what is available.

03/01/2025

Today is the big day!! My Dahlia Tuber Sale starts at 9am PST….we have worked so hard to get to this point. There are more tubers and varieties to offer than ever before…I hope that you find some that you will love as much as I do to add to your garden or farm. ✨

Address

Central Valley
Poulsbo, WA
98370

Website

http://www.willowandmabelgardenco.com/

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