What? What do you mean? Well, this is the last week that the flower shed will be open until next February, mid February more than likely. Yes, The flower is shutting its wonky doors for the rest of the season. I know, we haven’t had a freeze yet, or even a frost, but Steve and I are off for a well needed vacation. So. If you want flowers, may I suggest stopping by this Tuesday afternoon or Friday?
It will be hard to leave the farm at this time of year, with so much to do, and there is lots to do yet, but I know it will all be waiting for me in some way or another when we return. I have received some of the bulbs that I am forcing so I will get those crated up and into the cooler, others will be planted out into the garden. What rows are done or aren’t producing enough will be cut back, netting pulled irrigation pulled…the rest, well hopefully November will have good weather to get everything else done. The big delivery of tulips doesn’t arrive until we return, which is good.
I got an email from my bulb rep this weekend. This is the fourth year of bad tulip production in Holland. It will be interesting to see what I get. Will I get my entire order?, will they make interesting substitutions? Only time will tell, and I will keep you in suspense until I know.
The garden was looking really good last week, so before I did a big harvest, I asked Steve to send the drone up. So here you go, the September garden from above. It’s interesting how the blue weed buckets and hoses stand out.
I think it’s kinda cool to see from above and not straight on like I normally do. The only intense color you get from this view are the marigolds, amaranth, mahogany splendor and the black plastic.
Next up is last weeks #windowframethursday. I just love these big dahlias in this.
This bouquet also includes yellow marigolds, artemesia, feather celosia, yarrow and tree yellow roses from the garden.
It is funny how flowers resonate. The past few years I have grown the big dinner plate dahlias, you know, the ones that all the floral people and brides want, but I just couldn’t get them to work in bouquets. One, they damage quickly, two, the scale was way off and three, they don’t last nearly as long as the ball shapes do. So I got rid of all of them except this honk’n yellow one. My mistake. I am going to go back to growing a handful of different dinner plates, or slightly smaller just for you flower lovers. They won’t be added to bouquets. You can just buy them by the stem to enjoy. That being said, maybe I need two hand fulls of different dahlia tubers. As soon as I get off of here I am going to purchase some for next year.
You all know that we will be away for most of October. I won’t be taking my laptop, so there won’t be a blog going out until we return. If you want to follow our trip Steve will be posting on instagram @swpope134. I might be posting if it is flower related but Steve will be doing cool trip stuff daily I am sure.
If I don’t see you this week, have a great October, and I will be back in November to regale you with all the flower farm happenings, and there will be plenty I am sure. I also want to thank all of you who have bought flowers throughout the year, and supported me via emails from far away. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. All these flowers are grown from my heart.
Until next time, Allie. I dream of flowers, do you?