Gift basket for one of my friends from the Vermont Wildflower Farm!
Fabulous news!
The REAL Vermont Wildflower Farm (which partly inspired my latest release It Happened One Night) has generously offered to give away a gift basket for garden lovers to one of my readers!
It’s worth about $150!
The VWF was instrumental in my writing It Happened One Night. As you know, each chapter in the book opens with a bit of folklore about a wildflower for each month of Lana’s pregnancy. But if it weren’t for the beautiful pictures on the VWF web site (and all their information about seed mixes and growing wildflowers) I would have had a much more difficult time writing the book! Their website was a huuuuge help!
Also, Diana (one of the owners) was kind enough to share her insights with me about owning such a wildflower farm, and a number of the anecdotes in the novel are straight from VWF.
And now, to celebrate spring, the VWF will give this garden lover’s gift basket to one of my readers (sorry it has to be US only; it’s a seedlings/customs thing). The winner will be announced at the end of the week on this blog!
So if you want to win this gift basket here’s what you have to do.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and when the empty form appears, fill it out and answer this question:
What is your favorite wildflower?
Vermont Wildflower Farm
Thanks a million times to Diana at VWF for her beautiful website, for her help with It Happened One Night, and for celebrating spring with me!
Love to all!
Lisa Dale
My favorite wildflowers are violets and morningglories
I love wildflowers and look forward to seeing them in the woods. My favorite are wild violets.
I love flowers and am planting seeds in egg cartons now. Bachelor Buttons, and Celosia are my favorites.
I would pick the black eyed susan.
What a great contest!!!My favorite flower is the Forget-me-Not because I like the color blue.
My favorite wild flower is the ‘sweet pea’. I love the way they look, the colors and the fragrance.
Well I live in Ca. and we have the prettiest wild flower call California Poppies and there my fave there so Bright and sunny looking.Your not to pick them but they are so nice to look at in the fields and places that they found to grow.
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My favorite wildflower is Daisies.
I love lots of them but pain meds won’t let me remember me. I sure use something to cheer me up like this basket. I am suffering from a pinched nerve that made it impossible for me to walk on Sat. and put me in ER for 7 hours. My husband is laid up with a knee repair and overdid it taking care of me Sat. so now cannot hardly walk to bathroom even.
God Bless.
My favorite wildflowers are Johnny Jump Ups
My favorite wild flower is a daisy.
My favorite wildflower is the buttercup! They remind me of my childhood when I lived in an apartment house in NYC and we would spend the summer in the country and there would be buttercups here and there just waiting for us to enjoy.
My favorite wildflowers are violets with morning glories coming in second.
My favorite flower is Queen Anne’s lace. I’ll have to look up VWF the
next time we head up to my Dad’s. He lives on the NT/VT border.
Just looked it up and it is right across the lake from my Dad’s, only an hour or so away. Will definitely go when we are up visiting n
this summer.
That area is such a lovely part of the country.
Love the poppies the brilliant colors.
My Favorite wildflower is LAVENDER, A very-calming flower and so beautiful. I keep the lavender in my house all the time, it is also my favorite scent. I would love to win the gift basket. I am looking forward to reading It Happened One Night.
I’ve visited the Vermont Wildflower Farm. It’s wonderful. When I’m in Vermont, my favorite wildflower is Queen Anne’s Lace, which seems to grown everywhere! Back home in Texas, my favorite wildflower is the bluebonnet.
I love wood violets & Cahaba Lilies=)
Mine would be queen anne’s lace. My grandma used to pick them and put them in water with food coloring in it and they would change color. So pretty! I like lilly of the valley too!
i absolutely love wildflowers…especially lilacs.
My favorite is lavender and violets. Lavender relaxes me and help me fall asleep.
My favorite wildflower is the Sunflower.
I love hyacinths in the springtime… Michelle B. aka Koshkalady
I love pansies, daisies, and violets
I’d have to say daisies.
violets and poppies I like.
Lisa, how wonderful for both you and VMF! Wishing you every success. As a Hawaii resident, I favor orchids which most people don’t realize are wildflowers, too! Best of luck on It Happened One Night!
XO
Mia
PS. I’m not entering, just logging in my comment and good wishes!
Coneflowers, daisies,poppies,violets, lavender
Please don’t enter me in the contest because I recently won another prize from you. But allow me to answer your question.
Sunflowers are my favorite wildflowers. Actually, sunflowers are my favorite flowers, period. Not just because they’re both pretty and useful (because of their tasty seeds).
It’s also because of what they stand for. The sunflower is a heliotrophic plant. The flower faces the sun and turns to follow it on its daily route across the sky. Such a memorable symbol of devotion!
I love lavender & hyacinths and babies breath I grow lots of wildflowers each year. Sunflowers are one of our favs also. At the end of the garden I always plant lot lots of sunflowers.. I would love to win the gift basket. I’m going to check out their website and order some. They have the best selection I have ever seen. I loved your book.
Thanks so much,
Heidi S
Lupine
Candytuft and Sweet William are my very favorites when it comes to wildflowers. The pink colors of these wildflowers is just amazing.
My favorite wildflower is the Trillium.
I love bachelor buttons, and violets, and black-eyed susans, and also trilliums, which are illegal to pick in Michigan, where I grew up.
My favorite wildflower is Zinnia. I have fond memories of living on Zinnia Court, at the Jersey Shore, when my mother was still alive. From the moment I turned into the street, It became my favorite wildflower.
Wow, I love them all but, Sweet Williams are among my favorites.
Thanks!
Teresa
Daisies, daisies, daisies!!
My favorite are the forget-me-nots because of the beautiful coloring, but if I were to win, the prize would go to my mother who is… wild about all kinds of flowers.
The basic daisy like the shasta or ox eye is a classic! It’s such a happy flower. I really love all wildflowers but if you make me pick…DAISY!
Is it just my age making my memory too dim for accuracy, or has the line between wildflowers and — uhh — “tamed” flowers blurred in the last 50 years? No matter — my answer stands. The violet is the greatest wildflower as far as I’m concerned, My runner-up would be the spring beauty — I get blank stares from most people when I mention those lovely, tiny white flowers on bouncy little stems that I’ve known and loved all my life.
I love looking at a field full of lots of different kinds of wildflowers. All those colors waving in a breeze, I could stare for hours.
As to a favoite, I’d have to say black-eyed susans and daisies.
Daisies for sure! They make me smile!
I’m a sucker for daisies and sunflowers. Love them! They are so beautiful.
I love buttercups. We have a whole field of them and I love how their bright yellow makes you smile no matter how dreary the day may be outside.
My favorite wildflowers are sunflowers
My favorite wildflower is violets because it reminds me of my Grandma when it used to grow in the backyard of her duplex. Everytime i see them i think of her!
My favorite wild flower is a daisy.
I love wildflowers it is so hard to pick a favorite. But I guess I would have to say sunflowers.
We have so many beautiful wildflowers here in Oregon, but my favorite has to be the Foxglove that grows wild on the sides of the highway throughout the Williamette Valley and Coast Range.
If I had to just pick one it would be the Lupine Russel. Although, I love a mixture of wildflowers, they are so beautiful.
My absolute favorite wildflower is the ladyslipper, which is the Minnesota state flower but I also like California’s poppies too. And Lupines. A basket of wildflower seeds would be fab to grow up here in ND in my new garden. Put me down.