Spring Begins (finally)

Spring is in full effect on our farm this week and the ranunculus especially are really starting to respond to the warmer temperatures and longer days. Between cutting, processing, and delivering flowers, there are many, many more tasks needing to be completed. Planting lilies, weeding all of the field flowers, planting baptisia and other perennial roots, trellising sweet peas…the list goes on and on. 

This past week saw many boxes of things I probably shouldn't have ordered showing up at the farm via our weary FedEx driver. Perennials like baptisia, clematis, phlox, amsonia, and more peonies, which won't produce anything sellable for at least another year most likely, as well as dahlia tubers, lilies and little pips of lily of the valley that I'm attempting to force into bloom in bulb crates. Lots to be excited about for the future! I also took more dahlia cuttings this week and soon I'll need to begin propagating chrysanthemums for the fall once again. Hopefully all of these investments pay off in the future with buckets of perennial flowers and flowering branches that can't typically be sourced locally!

Back to the flowers we have right now though….ranunculus and butterfly are getting slightly more abundant and we have several new varieties of tulips and the first few bunches of cut pansies as well on offer.

It’s the best time of year & we are thankful to get our flowers out to the world!