Fresh Cuts: April 29

Poppy Love

Coral Icelandic Poppies "Champagne Bubbles"

I adore poppies.  There are poppies scattered all around the house so they are visible from every window.  I delight in their contradictory nature--petals seemingly fragile and delicate but suffused with strong deep color--kind of like punked-out ballerinas.  I dig'em.

Our greenhouse Icelandic poppies are loving the cool night temperatures and are blooming profusely.  These poppies are specialty hybrids, created as cut flowers and have tremendous vase life.  I get at least a week, if not ten days in the vase.

White Icelandic Poppy

Red Cap Parrot tulip, pink Giant Hyacinth and Icelandic Poppy bouquet

White foxglove--digitalis

We have a fantastic crop of white Foxglove--creamy white bells dotted with wine colored freckles on 3 foot stems.  What's not to love!

Snapdragon "Chantilly" pink

 We are also cutting the first crop of Chantilly snapdragons in lipstick pink.  That is not the official color but I grew up in the sixties and that is the color my mother wore/wears.  And if your mother wore this particular shade of lipstick you know this color exactly!

Tulips, tulips, waves and waves of tulips.

We are harvesting the second wave of tulips, those planted in the hoop house.  The foliage and colors are very robust.  These tulips are very happy and healthy.

I just slipped out and took photos of some of the tulips in the hoop house.  These varieties are blooming right now:  Maureen, Superlife, Perestroika, Impression in Red, Pink and Apricot, Golden parade, Parade, Clearwater, Hocus Pocus, Mariette, Big Smile, Neon Lights, Oillioules and parrot tulips, Rococo, Flaming and Red Cap.  If I do not have a photo of a particular variety here please follow this link to the official Bindweed Tulip Chart.

"Red Impression"

"Apricot Impression"

"Clearwater"

"Mariette"

"Maureen"

"Pink Impression"

Parrot tulip "Rococo"

"Ollioules" and "Toyota" tulips

Two new varieties have just come into bloom--Ollioules, on the left, and Toyota, on the right.

Toyota is a rosy pink with yellow frosting on the edges of each petal.

"Ollioules"

Ollioules is a soft pink lavender that appears silverish when first cut.  (I can describe it but am not too sure about the pronunciation, French is not one of my languages.)

Please refer to your fax and email for current availability and have a gorgeous flower filled day.