Buying Thyme Designs

06/13/2026

We finally have flowers! 🥳 the garden beds are bursting with blooms after 3 long weeks of waiting after the spring bulbs finished.

However, the stand will be closed again this weekend as all the buds are spoken for in pre-orders.

06/12/2026

Non verbal plant communication is the kind of conversation my nervous system craves most days.

06/12/2026

It’s FINALLY looking like flower season around here!

After those spring bulbs fade, I get to watch everyone else’s garden burst into bloom while waiting for my own.

Being just north of Hwy 7 makes such a difference compared to those on the south side.

I can drive 5 minutes and it’s entirely different (both summer for the bloom times and winter with the snow).

And now that the garden is popping off with blooms, you’d think the flower stand would finally be back to business! Alas, the first batch of blooms is spoken for due to pre-orders.

Not going to lie, these flowers had me sweating wondering if I’d even have any in time 🤪 but the heat and rain this week actually put us a little ahead of last year and right on schedule 🫶🏻🙏🏻

All that to say:
The flower stand will be closed June 12-14.

But this is your friendly reminder that if you want to lock in blooms, you can always pre-order and it gets priority from the garden harvests!

06/11/2026

Those career quizzes in 2005-2006 were outrageously lacking in all the career options that actually existed.

Having to pick what I wanted to be for life at the end of high school was daunting. And “mom” wasn’t an option in the career quiz results. It had been my top ‘career’ choice since the beginning of elementary school.

I liked math, was great at writing and loved reading. I loved to design and create but was horrible at “art” yet good at building. Loved puzzles and problem solving. I failed biology hard; but they made it soooo boring! When welding triggered my migraines to the point I couldn’t participate in class I transferred to a CAD drafting class and it changed my whole career trajectory.

But I was continually escaping class, work, home (a box in the sky or a basement apartment) even, to be outside. I itched to grow things, wanted to know the names of every plant around me, was happiest in nature. My end of college thesis was even in opposition to density. I feel like everyone should have access and a connection to land.

Now I’ve picked a role with no barriers to entry. No education requirements. Anyone can wake up and do it. Especially in the age of technology that we live in. It’s the opposite of all the education and career advice I got as a kid.

I have no regrets for my education; diploma and certificate. They were part of the evolution that led me here. They gave me so much experience and insights into far more than just architectural drafting, and I lean into that knowledge daily.

But this little flower farming thing, puts me right where I want to be, growing it as my kids grow, scaling it at my own pace. This phase of life, I’m not ready to go “all in” but I also don’t want it to pass me by. It has let me earn on my own terms.

The little girl that I was, would be thrilled at where I ended up so far (but also disappointed that despite living in the country I don’t have a horse).

College me would totally have given current me a know it all lecture because we were supposed to land a secure, decent paying job and hold it until retirement but would also be so relieved that she didn’t get stuck at a desk f

06/06/2026

Still bud city over here.
I’m expecting that by next weekend June 12-14 we’ll be back!

06/04/2026

The most darling hat 🥺

Is this little green frog asleep on a tulip leaf not the cutest!!

A little whimsy from our garden to brighten your feed this morning 🥰

06/02/2026

Bud watch 2026 👀
We’re getting sooooo close!

Apparently I’m growing gladiolus this year🤔⁉️
They were planted last year, experienced horrible rust, like the year before, making for completely unusable stems and I vowed they weren’t worth the trouble to try again. Yet… here we are! Overwintered and eager to prove themselves perhaps. 🤷🏼‍♀️

My winged everlasting also overwintered?! Go figure!

Snaps, ranunculus, anemones, stock, salvia, irises, columbines, feverfew, peonies… all teetering at the edge of budding into bloom. Leaving the blooms to the woodies for now. The deutzia, viburnum and dogwood are showing off big time.

The lissies and sweet peas, after just *being* there for over a month finally decided to do a growth spurt overnight. 🥳

The garden beds are full. Most of the seedlings have been planted out but that doesn’t mean planting is over yet. Winter sowing jugs have been potted up to continue growing bigger and the stragglers that didn’t get space in my plot of land are headed to the neighbours garden so I don’t have to dig out even more beds. 🫶🏻 plant people and dog people… there are no better humans than them. Succession sowings are growing indoors ready to fill gaps later this summer.

Weeds?! How could I forget!! Some have been harvested for compost tea concoctions(comfrey/nettle), or 🧙‍♀️ but there are still hoards threatening to consume and overpower my chosen plantings that need addressing. That will be next weeks mission. 💪🏻

So what does this mean for the flower stand?
It will be CLOSED again this weekend June 5-7 as we just aren’t quite there to be able to stock it.

See you next June 12-14!!

06/01/2026

Sometimes you just gotta shove some stems into a jar and admire them 😍

Thanks to the Lily of the valley these will have to live and be admired outside of the home only because 🐈. Probably for the best because even the lilac and LOTV can’t combat the intensity of the chives 😆

05/30/2026

Weeds🌱 1.
Flower Farmer 👩🏼‍🌾 0.

I am currently losing the battle.

I’m a team of 1. Digging beds, sowing seeds, planting, weeding, staking, harvesting, selling, marketing… it’s all just me! And this all gets juggled around my most important job description of “mama” to 3 littles.

I’ve noticed such a big difference this year. It’s my third season as a flower farmer and I can almost say, I kind of know what I’m doing most of the time now.

Way less crop failures this year.
My crop planning was so much more accurate.
My understanding of plants and how to pair them has also gotten so much better.
And my confidence that even though nothing outside of woodies are currently blooming, and the weeds are already dominating, and there’s still months of planting ahead, that it’ll all be ok… that’s by far the best difference.

If you want a tour of the itty bitty indoor grow room where I start every single seed for this space, let me know in the comments.

12/10/2025

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