1 min read- With over five decades spent leading trends in homemaking, Martha Stewart is easily one of the most influencial names in tastemaking.
- The lifestyle mogul owns an expansive Bedford, New York, retreat, which she’s converted into a fully functioning farm, famous for its sprawling daffodil fields and aesthetically planted rows of cabbage.
- Stewart regularly takes to Instagram to share tips and tricks for elevating your decor and home spaces. She recently shared a clip, collaborating with Miracle-Gro, sharing the one plant that always has a place in her spring arrangenments.
Martha Stewart is an icon for good reason. The model-turned-homemaker has been driving tastes and trends for over five decades. In that time, she’s managed to build an impressive business and real estate empire, including her famed Bedford Farm. Nestled in New York’s rural Westchester County, the estate boasts 153 acres, much of which Stewart has converted into functional farm lands brimming with daffodils, raspberries, and horse radishes, but the first crop she sees after a long New York winter isn’t a blooming tulip bulb or fresh apple blossoms; it's a rarely-named but widely known willow shrub, the pussywillow.
The fuzzy white-purple catkins of the plant are typically the first to emerge after the winter frost. Known to be tolerant of cold weather, pests, and pesky plant neighbors, Martha herself has referred to the willow variety as one of the “earliest harbingers of spring” in her farm garden. The tastemaker took to Instagram to show off her blossoming clippings and her bold pink “dirt nerd” branded sweatshirt, as she shared tips for arranging the branches in your home’s spring decor.
Typically grown as shrubs rather than trees, Stewart has made pussywillow branches a hallmark detail in her spring arrangements. With reported low toxicity rates and a penchant for growth, we just might add a few shrubs to our landscaping—after we find our own “dirt nerd” sweatshirts, of course.
