High season · Week 25

The solstice stain

St. John's Wort opens its yellow stars around the longest day, and if you crush a bud the colour that comes off your fingers is not yellow at all.

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Plan with us

A flower garden planner, built around your yard.

Map your beds with the companion bed designer, build a plant list from the field, and let a weekly plant-care digest tell you what to sow, cut, and watch for — every reminder tuned to your zone and frost dates, not a one-size calendar.

Most planning tools are built for vegetable rows. This one is for flower gardens, written by a grower in Beacon, NY — with landscape consulting when you want a second pair of hands in the yard.

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The companion bed designer: a to-scale grid with plants placed across a 2 × 1.5 yard bed, bed dimensions, and a sunlight slider

The plant library showing an All-Season Cutting Bed with planted chips, season filters, and companion plants surfaced first

Live feedback: a bed harmony score of 79 with light, water, soil and spacing readouts, and 86% bloom coverage across the season

The soil and compost calculator working out 18 cubic feet of fill for a 6 by 4.5 foot bed, split 60/30/10 topsoil, compost and grit

A shopping list of 17 plants and 12 bags of soil with a scan-to-send QR code and an email-me-this-list button

What we offer

Not sure where to start?

Most gardening questions are the same questions. We share what works, what doesn't, and what we've learned the hard way — so you don't have to.

The Field

Browse plants by season, zone, and bloom time. Search, filter, and build your own list.

Bed designer

Map your beds and lay out plants to scale — see spacing, bloom times, and color combinations before you put a single thing in the ground.

Digest & yard calendar

A weekly almanac built around your exact plant list and zone — what to sow, cut, and watch for, week by week through the season.

Insects

Meet the bugs in your beds — pollinators, predators, and pests — and learn which ones to welcome.

Friend or Foe

A weed library to tell the keepers from the troublemakers before you pull the wrong thing.

Landscape consulting

We walk your yard, talk through your goals, and hand you a clear step-by-step plan — whether that's perennials, a cutting garden, raised beds, or all three. In-person or Zoom.

Coming soon

Fungi

A field guide to the mushrooms and molds that turn up in healthy and struggling gardens alike.

Houseplants

Light, water, and care notes for the plants that live indoors year-round.

Seasonal bouquets

Signup and local pickup for flowers and herbs.

Our story

A home-grown garden guide in the Hudson Valley.

Batten Blooms is Libby Batten - a software engineer, lifelong gardener and nature lover. After years of growing flowers for friends and family, she launched Batten Blooms in 2026 to share her harvest with others, and connect with other gardeners (at all levels) in the community.

Years in the tech industry — including work with Shopify and multiple e-commerce platforms — helps Libby bring the same precision and problem-solving to her garden that she brings to her code. Whether she's debugging a pipeline or coaxing dahlias out of clay soil, the goal is the same: build something that works beautifully and brings people joy.

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