Showing posts with label thermopsis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thermopsis. Show all posts

Friday, May 24, 2013

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"


Please call or email for pre-orders.
Have a beautiful flower filled Memorial weekend.






Saturday, May 11, 2013

Fresh Cuts: May 13

The first things to bloom outside on the farm are yellow--daffodils, spurge and thermopsis.  And it seems that every shade of yellow tulips is also blooming.

Yellow Explosion bouquet

tulip "Big Smile", thermopsis, spurge, daffodil "Bridal Crown", Icelandic poppy, "Flaming Parrot" tulip

Chantilly snapdragon pale yellow



Icelandic poppy, "Bridal Crown" daffodil

Spurge and Chantilly snap in pale yellow


Daffodil "Bridal Crown"--looks like a handful of popcorn, smells so sweet

This is our cutie Sam who helps after school, she is graduating in a few weeks. (She is the official Bindweed bucket scrubber this year.)  She stopped by to show off her "graduation car"--congratulations!  And to pick up a bouquet for her mom.



Happy Mother's Day from Sam, Zeke and Gus!
 We have loads of tulips this week, many are variations of yellow, but we also have red, orange, pink, apricot and mango.

tulip "Dordogne"--a dreamy mango color with slight pink accents

tulip "Hocus Pocus"--huge lily-tipped tulip, streaked with orange

tulip "Red Cap"--magenta/pink parrot tulip 
 We have beautiful white foxglove.

foxglove white
Icelandic poppies in coral and white

Icelandic poppies, white and coral
Daffodil "Bridal Crown"--looks like a handful of popcorn, smells so sweet

We are cutting the last of the daffodils and the thermopsis have just begun to bloom.  The thermopsis is the yellow flower in the top right of the photo, it looks like yellow lupine.

Stock, white and violet
 We are harvesting beautiful fragrant stock, white and violet.

And we have snaps, lots and lots of snaps!
 

Chantilly snaps, pink, raspberry and rocket red snaps

Chantilly snap, pale yellow

Chantilly snap, coral

Snapdragon, white

Please call or check your fax and email for current availability. 
 Have a lovely Mother's Day.