At Market

Bindweed joined the Portneuf Valley Farmers' Market the first weekend in May so you can get your flower fix each Saturday.  Pretty flowers from pretty girls, what's not to like!

Jerica will be at market every Saturday through out the season and will be delighted to help you select the freshest flowers professionally grown and hand selected.

We have also joined forces with our friends at LadyBird Farms to offer you another venue for fresh flowers.  Just sign up for a bouquet when collecting your weekly shares and it will be in your box the following week. 

Here are some teaser bouquets:

I just put these bouquets together for my subscription clients--oh yeah, if you live in the Blackfoot area you can sign up for our subscription bouquet service.  Beautiful bouquets delivered to your door or place of business every week!

(Ooo, can you see my pretty delivery van in the background!

  More about it in the next post, or maybe the one after that.)

I made this beautiful arrangement for myself and put it on my bedside table.  The scent of sweet peas and lily of the valley sent me sweet dreams.

What's Fresh May 28, 2012

Nature paints the world with her own palette.  The first bold flowers are daffodils.  Bright yellow heads burst through the frosty ground and are followed by a rainbow of hyacinth and tulips.  

Then nature repeats herself, turning the palette back to white and the farm is littered with white blossoms--lilac, anemones, apple blossom--their scattered blooms echoing a light snow fall.  Thus begins a slow bleed around the color wheel.  

A bleed is a watercolor term describing when one color transitions or blends into another color, creating a myriad of variations of said colors.  Right now we are riding the color wave from white to violet, like the spring weather, a very cool palette.  Just scroll through the photos in this post, they illustrate that "bleed" perfectly--white transitions into lavender, then soft violet moving into deeper violet, then transitioning into blues and cool crimsons.  

This week we have:

Viburnum "Snow Ball"

Viburnum "Opulus"  aka Lace Cap

Foxglove

"Adoration" LA Hybrid lily

Sweet Pea white

Sweet Pea Lavender

Columbine White and Lavender

Cat mint

Clematis

Deep violet blue spikes of Salvia

Anchusa

Tiny deep blue flowers on long sage green stems, like a handful of tall forget-me-nots.

Bells of Ireland

Peonies, just starting this week with a bold show of color in coral

and deep crimson

All the hot bright colors were tricked into blooming in the greenhouses.

Chantilly snaps in yellow, coral, pink and raspberry.

Please check your fax and email for full availability.  

Enjoy the Memorial Day Weekend.

Perfect Bliss

After weeks and weeks of hectic farming, selling, cutting and planting we finally had a day with the girls.  Carlee has grown an inch and has sprouted freckles.  Kenna smiles and coos and has the sweetest chubby legs.  The house looks as if it was hit by a cyclone--brightly colored (many pink) plastic toys in all shapes and sizes cover every surface, most things are sticky from three feet down, crumbs and bits of playdough cover the floors and there is sandbox sand everywhere.  I kiss these darlings goodbye and send them home with their mommy, have a glass of wine and sleep through the night.  Finally.   I just needed a full day with these heavenly creatures.

Ahhhh, perfect bliss.

What's Fresh May 21, 2012

The farm is alive--alive with bird song, bee hum and the snicker-snick of flower scissors.  Every time I turn around something is bursting into bloom!  I envy the bumble bee, fat and lazy, as she bumps around the new blooms, I am too old for this and we have just started.  And I swear, if FedEx brings one more shipment of plants I will think seriously about running away from home.

...so, here's what we have blooming at Bindweed this week.

Allium

 

Small allium, from golf ball to baseball size

 

Giant Allium, soft ball size

Bells of Ireland, lush, lime green bells on three foot stems

Foxglove, white bells with deep purple freckles and soft velvet leaves

 

Icelandic Poppies

 

Lilacs in deep lavender to purple

 

and white

Lily of the Valley, fragrant bells on six to eight inch stems

Lily "Yelloween"

Lysimachia "Firecracker"

deep bronze foliage

 

(There are always a few stray tulips that pop up in the perennials and I just don't have the heart to pull them out.)

Snap Dragons

Opus White and Chantilly Yellow

 

Chantilly Apollo Purple (raspberry), Coral and Pink

 

 

Sweet Peas, white and lavender

 

 

Viburnum, Lace Cap

Viburnum, Snow Ball

Please consult your fax and email for full availability.  We will be making deliveries to Sun Valley, Jackson and locally.