The Calendar Says…
The calendar says May 3 but it feels more like April 3, or even March 3, but it is May by the number of flowers that are blooming here at the farm. The orchard is looking beautiful with all the narcissus in bloom, the peaches in bloom, the grass that is slowly greening up, yes, it is a spring sight to behold. On the other had, it seems as though growth has just stalled a little bit. That is fine I guess. I much prefer a long slow spring than one that last a mere week.
The harvest of the field tulips has begun. Normally it seems that I just about harvest all 1500 tulips in a few days, but here we are, slowly harvesting and getting them into the cooler. My timing has been good this year. I have maybe 150-200 of the forced tulips remaining, then onto the field tulips. I think I have some beauties coming in for our enjoyment.
The narcissus are getting harvested, counted, name noted, wrapped and put into the cooler. I still have a few varieties that are just showing bud but most of them are now in the cooler. I try to harvest every morning so everything is at their best. And for the people out there that think narcissus/daffodils are just plain boring yellow flowers, you couldn’t be more wrong, I have some stunners out there waiting to be harvested.
The leujcocium will be ready this week, along with possibly the last of the fritillaria, but other spring bulbs are ready to take over in the love department. Ask any flower farmer what their favorite flower is and their answer will always be the flower that is blooming at that moment.
Everything is looking good and I am pleased. I feel as though I am on top of things, (for the moment I am sure). I am topping up quantities of perennials that the damn voles have eaten, I moved all the remaining camassia out of the garden and tucked them hither and yon. It will make harvesting a royal PIA, but at least I will have something to harvest. I have ordered another ten bareroot shrubs that should be here by the end of the month. Again to fill gaps (sure Allie). The forcing tulip order is in and confirmed, now I just have to get my field tulip order together along with more narcissus and other bulbs. One can never have too many flowers I say.
Somehow I ran out of time last week so I did not do a #windowframethursday, but…I did do table flowers and a large arrangement for the Music on Norway Pond Gala event last night. I think it came out well.
This week on deck is to start transplanting the rooted chrysanthemums into bulb crates and get them outside to grow on until there is space in the tunnel, once the cool annuals are out. The flower tetris never stops, believe me.
Many of you have asked about Tuesdays open flower shed. Not yet. I will certainly let you know, but I need to have enough variety of flowers to offer you, as well as volume to make that work. Believe me, I will let you know, and I will also put it in the newsletter. If you aren’t on the newsletter list, after you read this, scroll down, way down, and you will see where to sign up. I think, the newsletter is the second sign up.
I see that many people sending out newsletters etc. are stating that their piece was not written by AI. None of this is AI generated, nor will it ever be. I enjoy writing my weeklies far too much, and it is rare that I have nothing much to say.
So I will leave you with last week’s tulip offerings. Soon, there will be more.
Until next week, Allie. I dream of flowers, do you?