Celebrate summer blooms in bouquets! How many different kinds of flowers can you pick? How do they smell different? How does the bouquet look with different stem lengths and flower positions? (Only pick a flower when you see there are many others and never take more than half.)
Here’s a sampling of what’s flowering in northern VT now:
Display your bouquet inside and consider making them on a regular basis to track the changing blooms throughout the summer. You might want to record the timing of flowers in your bouquet to compare to future years, like the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium. Since 1903 Fairbanks volunteers have collected wildflowers to display at the Wildflower Table and kept a record of their first bloom date.
