What's Fresh July 11

The day has come to say goodbye to the peonies...they were so late, so beautiful and so brief! Peony time is one of my favorite times of the season.

I used the last peony orphans in this bouquet. I also used some filipendula, baby pink garden roses, our new raspberry and orange sherbet snaps, lambs ear and wine clematis. (There have to be some advantages to running a cut-flower farm.)

Asclepias Time: the asclepias have started. We have orange available this week and white and pink to follow next week.

Canterbury bells in white, lavender and purple.

The campanula family is peaking this week, we have Canterbury bells, bellflower and glomerata available.

Campanula glomerata, strong stalks with clusters of purple bells forming a ball of flowers.

This clematis vine covers three sides of two different barns and is just peaking now. We custom cut vines 24 inches to 36 inches. If you are interested please call to special order this beautiful vine.

The white blossoms on this vine are the size of a silver dollar, vines include a variety of leaves, pearl-like buds and blooms.

The delphinium are peak right now. These delphs are almost as tall as I am. We have a good assortment of light blue, lavender, blue and deep purple.

Finally we have something yellow! The heliopsis has started blooming. These blooms are deep gold on strong long stems and have an excellent vase life.

White phlox is scenting the air on the farm. These fragrant white blossoms cluster on very strong stems.

Queen Anne's Lace, this is our early variety. Very lacy airy blooming umbels on green stems.

Snap Dragons--our second crop of snaps is gorgeous in orange sherbet, raspberry and deep velvety burgundy. The white snaps will make their debut next week.

These are the sun flowers--they are tardy. Now I really understand why they are named "sun flowers", after the long cold dark spring they are very late. We hope to see blooms in two weeks--such a bummer!

Last, but not least, Veronica--beautiful lavender blooming spikes soar above green lance shaped leaves.

As always, please check your email/fax for full availability, these are just the highlights.