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| From left to right: Orange queen, Toyota and Rococ tulips in foreground |
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We are struggling with the weather--how unusual for an Idaho spring to be so fickle. We work in weather windows between high winds and freezing temperatures, go to bed dog tired and wake to snow! Personally, I am over it, but alas, the universe is not listening.
In the greenhouses, the world is warm and moist, alive with beauty, color and fragrance. I am so glad we have greenhouses. Yesterday I walked through the hoop house and gleaned this handful of red/orange/pink delicious color--a stark contrast to the SNOW outside.
Yeah, I was less than thrilled and pretty much obsessed with the 1000 seedlings planted just days before, now under freaking SNOW.
It was such a beautiful, relatively calm day with a good clear five day forecast...ah well, that's farming.
On to the good stuff--this week we have for you many lovely things loaded with color to chase your cold, windy, frozen spring blues away. Let's start with snaps, in addition to the fabulous lipstick pink Chantilly her sisters are in bloom. The coral snap just shimmers with that pink/orange combination that rocks my world and the pale yellow is simply ethereal. We have two whites, the Chantilly ever so delicate with her open throat and our regular white snap, a little sturdier and compact.
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| Chantilly snap pink |
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| Chantilly snap coral--gorgeous |
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| Chantilly snap yellow |
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| Chantilly snap white |
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| snapdragon white |
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| foxglove white |
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We have a beautiful harvest of white foxglove, tall with ruby speckled throats.
We are growing stock this season and have a fragrant crop of white and violet.
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| stock white |
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| stock violet |
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The first wave of sweet peas are just starting to bloom in lavender.
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| Sweetpea lavender |
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| Icelandic poppies coral and sweetpeas lavender |
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| daffodil "Tahiti" |
We have daffodils and poppies.
And we have tulips! We have varieties in nearly every color we planted.
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| Left to right: Toyota, Rococo and Neon Lights. |
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| tulip "Maureen" |
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| tulip "Ollioules" |
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| tulip "Mariette" |
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| tulip "Perestroika" |
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| tulip Parrot "Rococo" |
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| tulip "Orange Queen" |
Please refer to your email and fax for full availability. You are very welcome to call, fax or email your Mother's Day orders.
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