Catch My Drift?
Posts from the Farm

Dahlias: latest & greatest
Dahlias are the latest and greatest blooms in the garden. You can arrange them with common landscaping plants for beautiful bouquets.


More peonies please
Peonies are the Queen of Spring. They are easy to grow with big, ruffled blooms that smell great. This FAQ covers what you need to know.

Raising a stink works
Keeping critters from eating your High Desert garden is tough, but I use cages, nets and smells to keep my plants alive.

Grow more than you think you can
Growing in the High Dessert is tough, but the selections planted here in May have taken off and are shining as fall approaches.

Tanks for the Tulips
It’s so easy to plant tulips in a fire or tank ring. In a few steps, you’ll be set for bountiful beauty in spring.




Boutique gym for bad asses
New habits include my cooler Johnny and Habit Reno, the boutique gym for bad asses.

Finding a Hayseed
Always a farmer at heart, I recount a career route that took a sharp turn, leaving me with a shoe mausoleum.


Legacy of a hotelier and seamstress
To reboot from the rigors of growing flowers, this farmer designed and sewed a few work dresses in keeping with her hotelier and seamstress great grandmother .




A Place for Your Flowers
A friend related her delight at having an interior designer curate the collections in her home…

Heavy Drinkers
Like party girls, the blooms from Drift Farm are fresh, pretty and smelling good…

