The Nature of Garden Planning

still life

Apr 10

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Until the ground is ready for planting, I'll be spending more time perusing my gardening books, pursuing my garden planning, and clearing the weeds from the garden patch. My long-time standby is the Western Sunset Gardening Book. It's full of information about just about anything related to gardening. Perhaps my new favorite is Floret Farm's Cut Flower Gardenby Erin Benzakein. But, of course, I cannot leave out Growing Heirloom Flowers by Chris McLaughlin, photographs by Nadeen Flynn.

Enjoying the Garden

Gardening used to be one of my favorite pastimes. But given different life events in the past, I haven't spent much time in the garden, until two years ago when I had the opportunity to plant a cutting garden along side our vegetable garden. It was somewhat of a last minute decision, but I loved it!

Each year since then, I've enjoyed planning, planting, caring for, and cutting flowers and vegetables from my gardens. Can you relate? Not only do I enjoy the gardens because of what they produce aesthetically and for food, but they provide fantastic subjects for my still life photography work both in the garden and cut.

Time to Plant

By now, I would have normally had a few new things in the ground. And, depending on where you live, it may not be planting time yet. But, fortunately, we've had a lot of much needed rain this spring so I'm being patient with Mother Nature. I'll be ready when she is.

Are you a gardener, either vegetable or flower or fruit? What are your favorites to grow? What are your favorites to photograph?

"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!"

~ Sitting Bull

Garden Wishes by Nadeen Flynn, northern California photographer

Garden Planning

Garden Book Wishes by Nadeen Flynn, northern California photographer

Garden Wishes and Plans by Nadeen Flynn, northern California photographer

garden book viewing and planning for the garden

Inspiration

To see more of what my garden produced last year, check out my Still Life Garden blog post. Now, get ready to get your hands dirty and plant a garden! You'll be happy to have a few still life subjects right at home. I'd love to hear how it goes, so be sure to send me an email or comment below.

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I hope you are inspired to plant a few things of your own to enjoy and photograph. Here are a few garden images from last year. You can see what my garden looks like now in this YouTube video I created about a week ago as I prepare the garden plot for this spring's planting:

Photo Friendly Flower Garden

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Nadeen Flynn is an award winning northern California fine art photographer. Living in the greater Sacramento area, she specializes in fine art landscape and still life photography. Nadeen’s style is authentic, fresh and personality-driven. This retains the timeless features of photography that create family heirlooms. She offers in-person workshops and mentoring. She currently lives in rural northern California with her husband and a couple thousand walnut trees.

Currently booking learning and mentoring sessions. Locations include Yuba City/Marysville, East Nicolaus, Wheatland, Lincoln, Woodland, Roseville, Rocklin, and Sacramento areas.

(530) 633-7575