5th Ave Flower Farm & Garden

This blog was formerly called 'The Rainy Day Gardener' and it cataloged my journey of learning to become a gardener, the development of my obsession with plants and helped connect me to fellow gardening enthusiast in the Pacific Northwest and around the world. I began blogging in 2008 and posted with some regularity through 2022. Postage stamp sized front gardens with Jupiter's Beard ( Centranthus ruber) playing an outsized role The blog has been quiet for a few years as I've transitioned into cut flower farming and have paid less attention to my perennial garden beds as they established. I have found that as these gardens matured, I was simply content to just 'enjoy them'. My favorite spot to sit in the patio gardens Late winter view of the patio garden from my favorite spot Dahlia 'Linda's Baby' I have missed blogging. I have missed taking the time to read my friends gardening blogs. I've been very active on social media outlets, but I miss wri