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May 25, 2020 By Jennifer Elliott

Happy Memorial Day! We hope you’re enjoying this kick-off to summer! What a different year – last year we were able to give our crew the holiday off because we were so on top of our plantings, this year we’re scrambling without a crew, in a pandemic, to keep up with the harvesting while we try to set out plants and manage tractor cultivations with two toddlers in tow. 

This is probably the last week for ranunculus and anemone – they stop flowering once soil temperatures start to rise – and we’ll be sorry to see this gorgeous, productive crop go. We’ll also say goodbye to the tulips until next season, and will gather up all of the optimism we can for next year’s crop… we had a really tough season with the tulips. A strong and promising start quickly turned to anxiety as the plants started to show signs of disease during an unseasonably cold, wet April. Disease spread quickly, destroying most of our varieties. After many emails and photo swaps with a plant pathologist, it looks like we’re dealing with a couple weather-related and/or bulb-borne diseases, but plant samples are at the lab now and we’ll have confirmation soon. Luke calls growing tulips the ‘tulip gambit’ because the investment and risk are so high (and the rewards can be, too!) and we took a pretty hard hit this year. 

But, that’s farming! Nothing to do but focus on what’s ahead – sweet peas, poppies, larkspur, and more from the greenhouses, and a big field of peonies showing perfect buds!

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May 7, 2020 By Jennifer Elliott

What a beautiful weekend! The sunshine and warmth had a huge effect on the flowers – it forced so many of the long-awaited tulip varieties open, and we were swimming in anemones and ranunculus in the greenhouse (in short sleeves!) Never mind that those two lovely spring days were sandwiched between cold and colder weather. Actually, we do mind…with every night in the 10-day forecast in the 30’s (and a few below freezing), this isn’t the welcome to May we were hoping for, especially after such a cold, wet April. Flowers do not like to sit under cold, cloudy skies for this long – we’ll be scouting closely for signs of disease until the weather lets up and we’re looking at more seasonable nights in the 50’s. We’d usually be trying to get a jump on our dahlia planting by now, too, but no chance with this forecast. In the meantime, it’s Mother’s Day week and we’ll be slammed in the barn putting together orders and arrangements with all the beautiful flowers the warm days gave us!

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April 27, 2020 By luke


Ranunculus and anemone are coming in from the greenhouses. Our greenhouse tulips are finished for the season and because of the long stretch of intolerably cold, wet weather, we’re still waiting for our field tulips to bloom. We’ve listed availability for curbside retail flowers on the website…this is the ONLY way we’re able to sell flowers this week. We’ll be updating availability as we harvest and are not able to predict availability for the coming weeks due to the unstable weather. We aren’t currently taking pre-orders for next week or Mother’s Day and are unable to offer anything for wholesale this week.

Thank you for understanding…we’re currently inundated with personal requests for both wholesale and retail flowers and cannot respond to individual inquiries outside of our online channels. We’re currently working without staff and are spending our time managing the farm and harvesting!

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We’ll be holding our seedling sale this May, off We’ll be holding our seedling sale this May, offering cut flower varieties that are hard to come by at garden centers or nurseries. We started poppies (like these ‘Amazing Grey’!), butterfly snapdragons, and larkspur today. Swipe to see my littlest helper topping the trays with vermiculite 💘
Guess we have a hole in our greenhouse sidewall. L Guess we have a hole in our greenhouse sidewall. Looks like it’s about to get bigger.
Our potting soil is not quite frozen through, whic Our potting soil is not quite frozen through, which leads to two bright sides: I can still dig what I need out of the center of the totes...and George gets a “dirt house” with a “dirt bed” where he can make “dirt breakfast.” Win win.
Happy Valentine’s Day 😘😘😘 Happy Valentine’s Day 😘😘😘
Ranunculus are getting planted out today, into a m Ranunculus are getting planted out today, into a minimally heated greenhouse. They were supposed to go out last week but we decided to wait until that mega-cold spell passed. They’ll get planted, irrigated, and covered with hoops and blankets today and tomorrow, then we’ll hopefully see very early spring flowers!
The gargantuan task of dividing our dahlia tubers The gargantuan task of dividing our dahlia tubers has been underway for a month now, carefully overseen by the awesome plant ladies behind @lu_na_bloomsherbs. We are so grateful to have their help this winter and are getting close to launching our online tuber shop. Stay tuned!

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