Bindweed Farm

Sunday, May 13, 2012

What's Fresh May 14, 2012

Mother's Day 2012

Thanks to all our loyal clients we had the best Mother's Day sales in Bindweed history. We are still spinning! The big truck was as full as we could load it. The back was full...

but I also had buckets between the seats...

in front of the seat...

and on the seats, to Sun Valley...

and to Jackson.

No passengers or help on these trips, only flowers.

We bid a sweet farewell to the tulips. We started the week with over 4000 stems and have maybe 30 stems left. The beds are empty but never fear, RT has already placed our order for next spring...ah, farming.

The sad news is we have no more tulips...

but the tulips are sending their neighbors, the snaps, to cheer you and fill your bouquets.

We have tall vigorous white snaps...

and incredible Chantilly snaps in a variety of colors.

Chantilly pink

Chantilly Raspberry

Chantilly yellow

Chantilly coral

The lilac is peaking this week

in a variety of colors and textures.

We have Icelandic poppies.

We have allium, which opens to the size of a golf ball.

Bells of Ireland

Euphorbia

Beautiful lemon-lime filler flower.

Sweet peas

Happy Mother's Day

from Bindweed

Thursday, May 3, 2012

What's Fresh May 7, 2012

We bid a sad farewell to the ranunculus this week, as the days lengthen the ranunculus begin to shut down but the daffodils are prime this week. Cool nights and cloudy days, the perfect weather for daffodils.

We are featuring Tahiti daffodils, double flower heads three inches in diameter on 10-12 inch stems, beautifully fragrant.

They are the ballerinas of the field in fluffy yellow tutus.

Bridal Crown, another specialty daffodil, very fragrant multiple flowers on 8 inch stems. Like a handful of sweet popcorn.

We also have Icelandic Poppies in mixed colored bunches, white, yellow, orange and coral.

We are harvesting Lilac, most of our lilacs have double blossoms.

Chantilly Pink Snaps

New this week, Chantilly snaps in pink and yellow. These snaps are phenomenal! They look like pink and yellow delphinium stems, they are huge. I am absolutely in love with these guys.

Chantilly Yellow Snaps

White Snaps

Our Opus White Snaps are starting this week, fragrant clear white on generous stems.

Muscari, aka grape hyacinths, fresh harvest this week.

Lavender Sweet Peas are blooming like crazy.

We are harvesting Thermopsis daily, our first perennial field bloom. It looks like yellow lupine, but is actually in from the pea family.

We have Tulips...lots and lots of tulips.

After a twelve year absence, Bindweed is returning to the Portneuf Valley Farmer's Market in Pocatello on Saturday. We will have fresh flowers and tulip bulbs for sale. Please stop by and see us.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Idaho Spring

"If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes," was the motto of my first cross-stitch. Not, it is actually one of my many tattoos...totally kidding! It is just a reality, like the last four days.
Wednesday we wake to beautiful clear skies, warm and sunny. By noon it is so hot it is too miserable to work, it feels like August!