Little Blue Barn Flowers

Name: Little Blue Barn Flowers
Address: Barnhartvale, Kamloops, BC, V2C6V6, CA
Telephone: 2505710944
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Little Blue Barn Flowers

Little Blue Barn Flowers Fresh. Local. Unique. Cultivating beauty with our locally grown flowers in Kamloops BC. specializing in winter tulip production, spring growing and dahlias.

We offer workshops, bouquet subscriptions, a la carte weddings and custom arrangements.

04/05/2025

"Some old fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat" - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Spring work doesn't make for pretty pictures but it's really the foundation of the season and one of the most important jobs. There is something about working with the dirt that I really enjoy and while I love to see the flowers in bloom there is something very satisfying about looking at newly shaped beds and dreaming of the season to come.
People must be getting spring flower fever as I have had a few messages this week inquiring about the Spring Subscription. The Subscription is sold out and it will start in late April, I will send out an email with all the info subscribers need as we get closer to the start 😊. If you missed out on a Subscription there will be some opportunities to buy spring bouquets as the season moves along as well.
Well my son and I are wrapping up a great ski season this weekend with a ski marathon (he's in the competitive category and I am in the "finishing is winning" category!) and then it will be onto spring sports activities and many more hours spent in the gardens!
Have a great weekend in the sun everyone and if you are prepping your own gardens, the Kamloops Track & Field club is selling composted manure all weekend as a fundraiser for the club so please consider supporting this club while supporting your garden soil!

03/31/2025

Spring Break coming to a close...well tbh I worked most of it and tried to catch up on life around the house but the kids had a great time with lots of family, got in a couple of road trips and had a bit of down time too and I got a few days for some fun with them as well. Spring Break always seems to be our shift from winter to spring and looking ahead to summer.
All of my cool flowers are now planted in the tunnels and we planted some cool veggies in the kitchen tunnels too. So now it's a matter of temperature control and keeping everybody watered. It's always interesting keeping everyone happy while temps fluctuate between freezing at night and t-shirt weather during the day!
I find April-July absolutely flies by - busy with kid sports a ton happening in the gardens and just the general yard work and house maintenance that always comes in Spring so I have been mentally gearing myself up for that shift in pace too.
One thing is for sure though, garden season is well underway and it won't be long until all of this green turns into colour!

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03/18/2025

Thankyou for the tulip input everyone! In case you missed it in my stories yesterday, I did a poll asking for input on favourite colours for winter grown tulips and the verdict is in - Dark Purple wins by a lot. White/Cream and Pink are a tie for second.
I also announced in my stories that due to a significant increase in bulb prices, I won't be offering a winter subscription in 2026 but I will do a Valentine's sale and maybe one other in the winter. It means I won't be growing as many tulips so want to make sure I get the colours you all love, so as I make my choices in the next couple of weeks (yup I order them now!) I will keep these colours in mind but I already know a couple that will top the list based on these results 😉

03/15/2025

Well March came in like a lamb but this week the lioness reared her head a bit! My original plan had been to have most of my cool flowers in the ground last weekend but I held off when I saw that the weather was going to be so unsettled this past week and I am glad I did. I have decided to hold off a little longer as it looks we have a few really chilly nights ahead. While the cool flowers can manage some cold, I typically like to get them in the ground when we have a few days of milder temps to allow them to settle in before they get hit with temps below -2.
So, I got my outdoor greenhouse going and moved most seedlings in there where they can start to harden off but still have some supplemental heat at night.
I did however plant my second round of ranunculus corms into the tunnels yesterday as they will be just fine and the first round in there planted a few weeks ago are looking good.
It can be hard to be patient this time of year and there is always some gambling with the weather to be had but sometimes playing it a bit on the safer side is the right choice.
So, I will spend my weekend getting the house ready for a busy spring, cleaning up perrenial beds, planting more seeds and maybe even get a ski in with all the new snow!
Hope you all have a great weekend!

03/09/2025

Tulips For Sale!! (SOLD OUT - THANKYOU!)

The last of the winter tulips have bloomed so I am offering some tulip and pussywillow bunches this week.

Each bunch is 12 incredibly long stemmed double pink tulips combined with some freshly cut black cat pussywillows.

Pickup will be available at Amplified Cafe on Tuesday March 11th 8am-6pm. We may also be able to arrange pick up at LBB for Tuesday afternoon. If you would like to pick up at LBB please msg me after purchasing. All purchases will be online at littlebluebarn.ca. you can also click on this post.

This will be it for flowers until things start blooming in the field which is still a ways off!

📸: my 8 year old 😊

03/05/2025

A bucket of sunshine to finish off the winter tulip subscription! Not going to lie, the tulips gave me a bit of a run for my money this winter but I am glad I got to offer them through some of the coldest weeks of winter. It felt fitting that yesterday was the final day of the winter subscription when spring was so much in the air.
With a rising cost of tulip bulbs and supply shortages, I don't know that it will be viable to run a winter subscription next winter, but I will plan to grow in some capacity over the winter and it may just be a Valentine sale or a couple of pop up sales through the winter next year.
I will probably have a few tulip bunches available in the next couple of weeks as the last crates of winter bulbs bloom. Yesterday I noticed the first field tulips and daffodils popping up, so it won't be too long until there are flowers outside and the spring subscription starts!

03/03/2025

I turned 39 this past week...it was honestly a birthday in the background because family life was busy and work is busy and there is lots of flower stuff happening too! But I had many family and friends who made sure the day was special ❤️. I did take a few moments to reflect though as I head into the final year of my 30's. This decade has most definitely been my "mama era" and I wouldn't trade that for anything. I started this decade with a toddler, morning sickness and a dream of selling a few bouquets at the farmer's market on my maternity leave!
9 years later and I no longer have babies, I have big kids and a thriving little flower farm alongside my career as an occupational therapist. Life changes so rapidly - I never knew so much could happen in 9 years!!!
While I loved those little kid stages I am also loving being the mom of bigger kids and it's brought sports firmly back to my life as well as the most full calendar and to do list I could ever imagine.
My flowers bring a sense of balance to my life and I am being very careful in how I plan my year as I don't want to miss all the great stuff with my kids but also want to make sure I am providing a superior product to my customers. So, this year in the flower world, my primary focus is my subscriptions, with a few weddings and events but less than in previous years. I will pushing myself a bit more physically as I try to keep up with the kids and looking to enjoy a few of my other hobbies a bit more too.
However, as I spent the majority of the afternoon in my tunnel planting transplants I couldn't help but feel a bit of excitement for all the blooms I have planned for this year. I am going to go out on a limb and predict that that 2025 is going to produce the most beautiful flowers yet - let's hope I am right 😉

02/25/2025

Feb 23/25 and the first plants were popped into the ground under the tunnels. The outdoor growing season has officially begun. It also means that now I REALLY care about the weather and will be checking thermometers, long term forecasts and cursing the wind for the next few months!!
It is the time where I try to take calculated risks for the earliest blooms I can get while not losing all my plants! It's the time where I run around adding and removing frost cloth and reinforcing tunnels in wind storms. It can be stressful however, it's also one of my favourite times because it's really the heart of growing and it sets everything up for the whole season.
This week, I am really hoping the snow sticks around for BC Cross Country Provincials this weekend and then it will be time for spring, hands in the dirt and rainbows 🌈

02/23/2025

DAHLIA TUBERS

I have been receiving some messages recently asking if I have dahlia tubers for sale this year and the answer is not this year. Over the past few years I have been growing less dahlias than I used to so I don't have as many tubers. This year I am planning to increase my dahlias again so I am planning to plant all my tubers this year. If I have any left over after planting in late April I will let people know.
More dahlias planted mean more beautiful fall flowers though and more tubers (to dig and split 🙄😬🫣) so I may have some tubers again next winter 😊.

02/22/2025

2025 Fresh Flower Subscriptions are SOLD OUT. Thank you so much to everyone who purchased a subscription for themselves or gifted it to someone else, I am looking forward to sharing a season of flowers with you all.

There is a chance I may open up a few more spots in the late summer subscription - we will see how abundant the blooms are closer to the start of that subscription.

I am also planning on offering a holiday subscription this year and sign up for that will be in the fall.

If you missed out on subscriptions, I will still have Grab n Go Bouquets available throughout the season 😊

For now, it's all about finishing off ski season and the tulip subscription and soon I will slowly start to move seedlings into the tunnels to grow an abundance of colour in the months to come!

02/17/2025

Fresh snow and fresh flowers - a little winter reset! Like many, we have had a bug in the house the past couple weeks and that coupled with the cold, routines have been thrown off and I think this week for the first time this year I had a bit of the winter doldrums (especially when my cooler went down!). So this weekend has been a bit of a reset - enjoying winter, some rest and recovery and getting ready to take on the last of winter.

It appears the temperatures are supposed to warm a lot by the end of the week so I will be watching those closely and some things will be moving from the seedling room outside into the tunnels very soon which is exciting.

But for now, I am happy to have an armful of fresh flowers again and the focus of next couple of weeks will be the final ski races of the season.

Hope everyone is having a good long weekend!

02/12/2025

Well I had my first ever tulip catastrophe 🤦‍♀️. Last night the breaker for my cooler tripped and my cooler froze and this morning I woke up to a cooler full of frozen solid tulips 😭. In 7 years of having my cooler this has never happened. My guess is it is just the cold weather putting stress on all systems. I check the temp a few times of day but I keep it at about 3 above so if anything goes wrong it freezes in just a matter of hours. I do have checks and balances to try and prevent this but unfortunately last night it was a perfect storm of things not working!

So that being said, I will not have tulips for Valentine's Day and there won't be a subscription bouquet next week. Subscriber's I will send an update later this week.

On the flip side everything in my grow room looks great and the forecast is looking favorable for things to be going into tunnels in late Feb/early March. So doing my best to look towards a spring filled with flowers and there will be more tulips, just not this week.

02/11/2025

Another chilly Monday and another fresh subscription this morning. Hope everyone has a good week leading up to the long weekend 😊

02/07/2025

Brrrr it's been a cold week but the tulips have continued to bloom. I did a big harvest yesterday and picked my first round of hydroponically grown tulips which was pretty exciting!

Due to the tulip bulb shortages, I wasn't able to get all the bulbs I had ordered last year so I am not growing specifically for Valentine's this year as the majority of the tulips are going to subscribers. However, it looks like I will probably have a few bunches ready next week so if you are hoping to gift some locally grown flowers or just want a burst of freshness yourself, stay tuned and I will let you know what I have available early next week 😊

We will be out cheering on the kids in biathlon this weekend so I am glad the temperature is going to warm at least a bit for that - hope you all have a great weekend and stay warm!!

02/03/2025

I dropped off the first bouquets of the year this morning! Excited to be able to share some freshness and colour on such a cold winter morning. Hope all of my subscribers enjoy their bouquets this week ❤️

02/02/2025

The cold rolled in just as predicted last night. The wind was absolutely howling when I went to bed last night and this morning the temperature had dropped to its lowest point this winter. I have to say though that it's on these really chilly days that I love having the fresh tulips! So, I think tomorrow is a perfect day for the first subscriptions of 2025 to make their way to customers!
Bouquets are made and tucked away in the cooler (which is much warmer than outside!) And I am off to take on a new personal challenge with the kids today...wish me luck and I will post about it later in my stories!
Stay warm and cozy everyone!

01/30/2025

Tulip harvests are becoming more abundant this week. The sun was just about to set as I took an armload out to the cooler this afternoon and I just stood for a few moments to bask in it. The days have definitely been starting to stretch out a bit which is nice to see.
Looking forward to putting some tulip bunches together between ski practices and races this weekend with the first subscription going out on Monday morning!

01/28/2025

Happy Monday! Home from a super fun winter weekend watching my son ski race in Rossland and doing a bit of skiing in the mountains myself. What a charming and beautiful little town Rossland is and the mountains around it are breathtaking. We also got to enjoy some of the annual Winter Carnival there which has a rich history and was a great way to celebrate the winter season and enjoy some time with my fast growing pre-teen!
After coming home later last night I woke up not really feeling ready to face the week, however a delicious cup of hot coffee, the biggest hug from my daughter and breathing in the smell of freshly picked tulips first thing this morning was a pretty darn good way to start another week 😊. So here we are, made it through Monday folks just four more days to another action packed winter weekend and so many tulips to pick this week as we get there 🙌

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Annual Christmas tree hunt was a perfect way to spend a pro-d day! The calendar is looking pretty busy in the lead up to Christmas so it was great to just take a day to spend some time in the hills and snow and getting the house ready for Christmas while enjoying mugs of hot chocolate and mulled wine. The kids wanted a "Griswold tree" and i think we found one with this beautiful blue spruce. It's not a designer tree but every ornament we hang is handmade, gifted or has a story behind it and I love it every year. I will have one more holiday offering for this year and then that will be it until the 2025 season begins in late January. Time for family, good food, time outside and cozy nights by the fire ❤️

What a MAGICAL afternoon it was feasting and creating swags with a lovely group of ladies @laclejeuneresort. I promised it would be like an afternoon in a Hallmark Christmas movie and it really was! It's hard not to be immediately in the Christmas spirit when you arrive at a cozy lodge nestled into a winter wonderland. The fire crackled and the music played and we created some beautiful swags. That wraps up my public workshops for the season. I have one more private workshop and then that will be a wrap. Thankyou so much @laclejeuneresort for hosting us and feeding us and to everyone who enjoyed the afternoon with us - Happy Holiday Season!

That is a wrap on 2024 Wreath Workshops @montecreekwinery! The greenhouse was beautiful and smelled just like Christmas as we created with fresh evergreens and sipped wine. 60 gorgeous and unique wreaths were created and hopefully lots of great memories with friends and family made too. It was great to see so many familiar faces over the weekend and also some new ones - thankyou to each and every participant who came out to the workshops this weekend. Also a huge thanks to MCW for being such a fabulous host. If you missed out on the wreath workshops but would still like a festive workshop - I have a very few tickets left for my Swag Workshop @laclejeuneresort on Nov 30th and I am sure it is going to be another memorable experience!

A day of flowering in town complete! I was feeling a bit nervous to lead a bouquet workshop because I haven't done a fresh flower workshop yet, but it was so much fun and everyone made a gorgeous spring bouquet! Thankyou so much @farandwideshop for hosting the workshops, my mom for helping me prep and to all the participants - I hope you all enjoyed yourself and will try your hand at some more bouquets this summer! Remember don't overthink it 😉 I am planning 2 more workshops in August that will feature working with dahlias and all the summer beauties so stay tuned for those... Enjoy the rest of the weekend in the 🌞

If you need a pop of spring to get you through this blast of winter, I have some bright tulips that might do the trick! Just a few bunches left that can be picked up at Amplifed on Monday, hop on over to the shop to grab yours. Orders will stay open until noon on Sunday or bunches are sold out. https://my-site-107892-107250.square.site/product/winter-tulip-bunch-march-4th-pick-up/120

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted" - Aesop Happy Valentine's Day 💘. Thank-you for helping me to share my flowers with those you love and care about! Tulips are no rose but they are bright, cheery, long lasting in the vase and they were grown right here in Kamloops in February! No spray, low carbon footprint as far as V-Day flowers go and perfectly safe for your compost once they are finished so they can nourish the next generation of flowers 😊. Hope you are able to give and receive at least one act of kindness today 💕

Fuzzy peaches, juicy apricots and pretty pinks in bold designs are in the forecast of Floral trends for 2024 and I am here for it because I naturally gravitate to those colours myself and probably grow more than I should in those palettes already 🙃! But I don't think classic elegance will ever go out of style and if you love simple, clean and timeless, I don't think you can ever go wrong with with green and white and I will always have you covered in this palette no matter what the trends say! Loving the palettes my 2024 brides are picking - each unique. I only have a handful of available dates for weddings in 2024 so if you are curious about our a la carte wedding flowers, please inquire soon and I will send you the details!