You know, if you have sort of one dream flower that's really luscious and beautiful,

but you know it's difficult to grow, just go for it.

I think what's amazing about gardening in general is that it's a safe space for you to fail, really.

And it's important to go easy on yourself and realize if you planted 40 seeds and only only one flower came up,

that's still one flower more than was there the year before.

Welcome back to the Beat Podcast. I'm your host today, Jacques Glyakov. And today we have

Elizabeth Brown on from Foxglove Farmhouse. And she wrote a wonderful book called The Beginner Cut

Flower Garden. And it's full of all sorts of interesting insights and not just cut flower gardening,

but also just growing flowers and being out in the garden. I'm very excited to talk to you about

this today and how you're growing in general. But first, why don't you give everyone a little introduction

and where you're growing and what style of gardening or farming you're doing?

Hey, yeah, thank you so much for having me.

I love talking to people about cut flowers.

So I actually live about an hour north of Boston in very, very southern Maine on the coast.

I live in a seasonal little town that I grew up in. We've

got four beaches and we also have incredibly long winters. So I'm able to garden about six

months out of the year. And then the rest of the time I like to say I spend my winters dreaming.

So the majority of my gardens oftentimes live in my thoughts as I imagine them to be.

And then I spend the bulk of the summer months, of course, in early spring, getting the garden ready.

My journey to gardening was like many people. I think it really increased

during the pandemic when I was at home, nowhere else to go. And I was finally able to spend time

with my garden that I had always wanted to before. and so I started growing tons and tons of cut

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