What's Fresh June 11

Bindweed is  offering our subscription bouquets in conjunction with Ladybird Farm's CSA.  

Here are a few bouquets that went out this week.

Bouquets ready for Saturday's market.

Bouquet close-up featuring chantilly coral snaps, wine clematis, white lilies and lace cap viburnum.

This week we are harvesting:

Anchusa, perfect blue forget-me-not flowers on long stems.

Baptisia, aka "False Indigo" in wine and violet.

Cat mint

Clematis

Delphinium in many shades of blue, violet, white and lavender.

Eremerus, aka "Foxtail Lily" and  "Desert Candle"

Lysimachia "Firecracker"

Alchemilla mollis aka "Lady's Mantle"

Peonies in several shades and sizes

Oriental Poppies

Salvia

Sweet peas in lavender and white

Fresh crop "Yelloween" lilies

Viburnum "Blue Muffin"

As always, please consult your fax and email for complete availability.

What's Fresh June 4, 2012

We are still experiencing a spring palette, the farm is full of whites, blues, lavenders and purples.

We have cut the last of the viburnum, snow ball and lace cap.

LA Hybrid lily "Adoration"

Cat mint,  fifteen to twenty inches of soft lavender bloom.

The clematis is just gorgeous.  Giant blue...

white

and deep wine.

Salvia, deep blue violet spikes.

Chantilly snaps, deep raspberry

and pink, yellow and coral.  (The blue in the center of this bouquet is a stem of anchusa.)

Anchusa has a long stem with multiple little deep blue forget-me-not shaped flowers.

Delphinium  (Again the anchusa has slipped into the photo on the upper left corner.  It is so sneaky.)

Lavender sweet peas

White sweet peas

Filipendula, aka "Meadow Sweet" is a an umble shapped cluster of pink dusted pearls that open into white star like sweet smelling flowers.

 

Peonies in every shade, white, blush, pink, deep pink, magenta, red and coral.

Please check your fax and email for full availability.

We hope you have a flower filled day.

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.