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.

Fresh Cuts: Mother's Day 2013

From left to right:  Orange queen, Toyota and Rococ tulips in foreground

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.  

Chantilly snap pink

Chantilly snap coral--gorgeous

Chantilly snap yellow

Chantilly snap white

snapdragon white

foxglove white

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.

stock white

stock violet

 
The first wave of sweet peas are just starting to bloom in lavender.

Sweetpea lavender

Icelandic poppies coral and sweetpeas lavender

daffodil "Tahiti"

 We have daffodils and poppies.

 And we have tulips!  We have varieties in nearly every color we planted.

Left to right:  Toyota, Rococo and Neon Lights.

tulip "Maureen"

tulip "Ollioules"

tulip "Mariette"

tulip "Perestroika"

tulip Parrot "Rococo"

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.