Sunflowers are so fun. They bring the bees, turn towards the light, and grow so easy from seed. The orange hued petals are most common, but one of my favorites is the lemonade sunflower series. They’re huge and doubled petal. Harvest a bunch of these flowers creates a beautiful en masse bouquet of sunshine for …
With lily season winding down and summer stems starting in their peak season, while I walked the flower garden, I continued to see shades of pinks and hues of purple. I love color combinations, but sometimes it takes a gradient of colors to wow the eyes. For early August in Pennsylvania mountains, I created a …
Walking through my flower garden, I harvested every flower with any touch of yellow, and maybe some white. I thought I could make a bouquet with every yellow flowers I grew, but I couldn’t. I had WAY too many flowers harvested, even for my largest vase. In turn, I created two large bouquets, about 30 …
Over the past season, I tried bouquet bars in multiple locations. Bouquet bars are where the flower farmer harvests all the flowers, then offers the flowers for customers to browse through to build their own bouquets. I hosted mine at my front porch twice, and then once at an event with a local business. Are …
Mid-June brings on a new wave, a new flower season, of posies after the irises in late May and the peonies in early June for our PA mountain climate. When planting cool flowers in early April and warm-season flowers in mid-May, I didn’t know when to expect flowers. Years before, my flowers didn’t begin until …
Visits to my mom’s family farm always entails my first task- discover the flowers; browse the hydrangea bushes. My flower farming journey wouldn’t have happened without my years helping my brothers with the haymaking operation and the large garden, but most importantly it wouldn’t have started without the flowers around the Bloom farm. It has …
I am such a spring loving flower girl, until these sunflowers and zinnias are in high speed pursuit in late August and early September. Sunflowers and zinnias are in bloom throughout the summer season, but near Labor Day weekend it is awesome to still have flowers because in a few weeks the first frost of …