I say that because, honestly if I don’t know what season it is these days, how on earth do my flowers? Tropical days, quickly followed by cold nights and days, quickly followed by more topical days, and now quite pleasant.
The peonies have not liked the sudden temperature spike, anymore than I did, but I had a very faithful core of friends who kept the plants and seedlings well watered and were harvesting flowers that were trying to explode from the heat every few hours, putting them in water and cooling them down while I was away at a very important memorial service. My thanks goes out to everyone who pitched in to keep my flowers going and helping to keep me sane. Actually I don’t know what task has been more difficult this spring.
I know you are all hanging off the edge of your seat to know what is happening here at the farm. The second batch of sunflowers have been planted with one more seeding to go. The next batch of glads get planted this week. I still have peonies and the Icelandic poppies are just stunning. I have called it quits on the ranunculus and anemones for the year. They were lovely but they don’t like the heat and I need to make room for a new growing structure. The perennials are holding down the fort while the annuals are getting established. One can only plan so much, then mother nature does what she wants.
I am slowly pulling together the tulip order for next spring so if there was a tulip from this year that really pulled at your heartstrings, better let me know.
I leave you with an image of last weeks flower offerings. Every week is new and different, but always something to look forward to. Until next week. Allie
