Fresh Cuts: May 27

Come walk with me...

The little barn

 Yesterday was a perfect farm day--the forecast, sunny but cool with light winds--meant that I could work all day without bumping up against strong winds and too much heat.  Taking advantage of the extra time I took a long walk around the farm with Gracie, the fat cat, and my camera.

Blooming Hawthorne

Blooming Chestnut

Along the lane

The west fields

The east fields

 Now I realize this is not a "gorgeous" farm shot, but I wanted to show you the potential.  The multicolored little green sprouts are many of the annual varieties you love--snap dragons, matricaria, Queen Anne's lace, nigella and so on.  The yellow-green rows at the top of the photo are grasses and to the top left of the photo are some of the perennials--delphinium, ascelepias, monarda and yarrow.  The last row on the far right is a future crop of helebores.  I will take photographs of these fields each week so you too can witness the progress. 

Every day we are harvesting new varieties of perennials--we are updating the availability list each day!  At the moment we have:

Allium

Cerinthe

Columbine

Lilac--double

Lilac--deep purple

Lilac--double white

Lily of the Valley

Lily of the Valley

Lysimachia "Firecracker"

Peony--the peonies are blooming!

 Snapdragons

Snapdragons--Burgundy and White

Snapdragon "Royal Raspberry"

Snapdragons "Chantilly" pink and coral

Sweet peas in lavender, white and pink

Sweet peas lavender

Thermopsis

We are in the last stage of tulip harvest--we have white, yellow, mango, pink, red, salmon

tulip "Big Smile"

tulip "Dordogne"

tulip "Pink Impression"

tulip "Spring Green"

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Have a beautiful flower filled Memorial weekend.

Time-Out: Turkish Sweet Peas

Every time I touch these lovely flowers I am itching to put them together.  I am so taken with these darling sweet peas and their intricate delicacy.  I finally had a moment this morning to put together this coral/mango/chocolate celebration!

Turkish sweet peas, coral poppies, "Firecracker", coral Chantilly snaps and "Dordogne" tulips

Ahhh--thank you for that refreshing time-out.  I will post our regular "Fresh Cuts" momentarily.

Fresh Cuts: May 20

Buongiorno--beautiful morning at Bindweed

How can I begin to describe a calm spring morning at Bindweed--this photo goes a long way. But you must use your imagination to add in the scent of lilac, crab apples and choke cherries all in bloom, the air full of bird song--red wing black birds, robins, sparrows and finches--there, that's a bit more like it.  I take a deep breath and try to feel it all before picking up my work again.

The temperatures have been unusually high and things are exploding.  This week we are harvesting the last row of tulips--it is the row just above the bucket of tulips in the photo.  We have yellow, the Impression series in red, pink and salmon, "Spring Green" and the mango delight of "Dordogne".  We are cutting the last parrot tulips also, "Red Cap" and "Flaming Parrot".

tulip "Dordogne"

tulip "Orange Queen" and "Big Smile"

tulip "Red Cap" parrot

tulip "Spring Green"

In addition to tulips we are cutting:

Allium

Bells of Ireland

Cerinthe

Cerinthe is all about its showy blue-green foliage.  The tiny deep violet bells are an accent to the lush jade leaves.

Chantilly snaps 

Chantilly coral

Chantilly pink

Chantilly raspberry--think of freshly crushed raspberries

Chantilly Yellow

Foxglove

Icelandic poppies in white and coral

Lilac double

Lilac single

White snapdragons

Deep Red snapdragons

Sweet peas, pink, lavender and a few white

 We found these amazing Turkish sweet pea seeds available on line out of England and tried them out.  They are sweetly scented and gorgeous--very small.

Thermopsis

White tulips, Tahiti daffodils, coral Chantilly snaps and white stock

Have a gorgeous weekend and please call or email to place an order.