Old Mission Flowers

Name: Old Mission Flowers
Address: 16550 Center Road, Traverse City, MI, 49686, US
Telephone: +12314995474
Rating: 4.5

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Old Mission Flowers is a seasonal garden where you are welcome to
pick a bouquet.
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06/18/2024

There are two Plein Air painters at Old Mission Flowers today (6/18/23), both are painting the poppies.

06/18/2024

The Crooked Tree Arts Center’s Plein Air event is this week and several artists have chosen to work in my garden. Some have said they plan to come again tomorrow. You are welcome to watch them and visit with them

06/17/2024

The last of my peony varieties, a large white fluffy one, is beginning to open. They and the oriental poppies will be done blooming by the end of this week of hot weather. While they fade in the heat…. hello summer flowers!!!

06/16/2024

Tatyana Robberts, a plein air painter, spent her day in my garden today.

06/16/2024

What’s on your windowsill? I keep a little vase going all summer long on this ledge behind the kitchen sink. I pull out what has faded, clip the stems of what’s still holding up and add to it.

The blue delphinium was cut 5 days ago. I was going to use it in a demonstration bouquet at the Botanic garden but it looked a little floppy at the top. I brought it home, recut the stem, turned it upside down and filled the stem with water, plugged the end with a bit of tissue and stuck it in the vase. It worked!

06/12/2024

It’s still peony heaven at Old Mission Flowers but they’ll go fast now that it’s seriously warming up. There are some pre-cut in the cooler but they’ll go fast.

I’m going to be demonstrating some bouquet making techniques at the Botanic Garden. If you’re going to Recess (5-7) stop and say hi.

In preparation, I’m picking now, putting the flowers in clean buckets with “flower food” and keeping them in a cool dark area of my house so they can hydrate before I arrange them.

06/09/2024

These are pictures from Old Mission Flowers 6/9/24. Peonies and other large flowers are $3.00 per stem or 10 for $20.00 and $2.00 per stem for additional ones. Bring a clean bucket for easy transporting or there are containers and vases with fill prices. For instance, you may fill a quuart jar for $20.00.

06/07/2024

If you love the smell of peonies, come pick some, the garden is full of flowers. The first two pictures are east of the driveway, the second two are west of the driveway. I'm also keeping the cooler stocked with peonies.

06/05/2024

After the rain, 6/5/24. The peonies and other large flowers are $3.00/stem or 10 for$20.00 and$2.00/ stem for additional. You are welcome to bring your own clean buckets forr easy transporting.

06/04/2024

Want to perk up your life without getting your feet wet? These are in the cooler… (6/4/24)

06/04/2024

New peonies started blooming.... pictures taken 6/3/24. Don't wait.

05/31/2024

I took some pictures today, May 31, 2024, so many choices for picking…. If you need a lot of flowers bring some clean buckets. All the large flowers are $3.00 per stem or 10 for $20.00 and $2.00 per stem for additional. The garden has ober 40 varieties of peonies and different ones will be popping open during this warm weekend.

05/28/2024

Do you need party flowers or want to dazzle some friends with amazing bouquets? Bring some clean buckets. Large flowers like peonies, iris, large alliums, oriental poppies and lupines are 10 for $20.00. Pictures after the rain, 5/28//4.

05/20/2024

Need a bouquet? Here’s what’s blooming at Old Mission Flowers this lovely morning (5/20/24).

05/19/2024

The first of the peonies at Old Mission Flowers are perfect for picking this morning!

05/17/2024

Peony season begins and so much more…. The lilacs (syringa) in front of the house by Center Rd are perfect to pick - about 1/2 in bloom. Lupines are also best picked when there is a cluster of buds left to open. There are going to be a lot of peonies this year. Pick them when the ball has softened up a bit and showing color.

12/16/2023

Happy Holidays!

We bought a potted Balsam Fir to use as a Christmas tree this year so we won't bring it inside until last minute. I was missing that smell of evergreens so clipped a few branches from things growing in our yard... The container is a small rectangle that is a little more than an inch wide and works well for holding the branches upright and doesn't take up a lot of space on the counter.

When I worked in a flower shop at Christmas, we used to make a base of short evergreen clippings and then added a few carnations, mums or roses for an elegant holiday arrangement.

12/07/2023

Wow! The Old Mission Women’s Club made and filled all these stockings that are being delivered today to The Women’s Resource Center and Addiction Treatment Services. We do good work, we also buy snow gear for needy kids who live out here, donate Thanksgiving baskets (boxes) and make grants to local nonprofits. Support our work, buy our cookies - Saturday morning at the township hall. Come early, the sale officially starts at 8 am, expect a line.

11/30/2023

I had to go outdoors today and soak up some vitamin D. I’m not very crafty but making a holiday porch pot doesn’t take too much artistic ability. I wanted to add a little glitz so spray painted a couple stems of milkweed pods and some hydrangeas.

10/25/2023

I closed the garden mid-September because we had wanderlust. We’ve been away since the end of September and came home from the blue skies of Utah to pretty dreary Michigan weather, although the drive down from the UP was colorful. I’m hoping it improves because I have a lot of clean up to do, bulbs to plant and peonies ordered for fall delivery. Like athletes, gardens are made in the off-season!

To my surprise upon my return, the dahlias look better than when I left.

09/27/2023

I picked a couple buckets of flowers before tearing up a row of landscape fabric today. My garden is closed for the season but Carolyn Faught still has Omena Cut Flowers U-Pick Flower Farm open. It’s up by Northport and is in a beautiful setting.

09/09/2023

I’m closing the garden after this weekend. I plan to re-open on May Day (5/1/24) if the daffodils are up and the snow is mostly gone. Thanksfor your support and visits!

09/01/2023

I planted several kinds of sunflowers this year at varying times. These are blooming today, 9/1/2023. Happy September and Labor Day Weekend! Put some in a bouquet or buy individually. Quart jars may be filled with any flowers you pick for $20.00, large individual sunflowers and gladiolus are $1.50 each.

08/03/2023

This is an orienpet lily bloom that is bigger than my hand. I found it on the ground when I was tidying up the garden. I picked the anthers (pollen) off to make it less fragrant and put the stem in a small dish of water.

09/26/2020

Fall at Old Mission Flowers

If you are looking for something to do, come pick a bouquet.

I generally go to garage sales and resale shops to find vases but I haven't been because of Covid-19. If you want to recycle some just drop them off at the garden shed and take a flower credit: $1.00 per quart jar, like-sized vases and larger vases, 50 cents for vases smaller than a quart jar. Thank you!

09/26/2020

Finally, my dahlias are starting to bloom. I pinched them to get longer stems and as a result they are later than ever. I find them difficult to grow. This year I lost many because I planted right before we had a lot of rain and the tubers rotted. The tubers have to be dug and stored in northern Michigan, they need 60* soil temperature to grow, there are frequently moisture and heat issues - too much or too little, they need a lot of fertilizing but it's tricky, there are some insects that adore them and they are late bloomers. It seems like every year I decide not to grow them and then they start blooming...

09/22/2020

Oxford man's dahlia farm one of the biggest in the country

Some of the dahlias I grow at Old Mission Flowers were from Summer Dreams Farm. He has the touch!

Michael Genovese is just 33 but his Summer Dreams Farm in Oxford, Michigan, is one of the major dahlia farms in the U.S.

09/19/2020

Zinnias are native to our southwestern states, Mexico and Central America. They really take off in the heat of the summer but keep blooming in our cooler fall. If you love hot colors, add zinnias to your bouquets.

09/12/2020

Artists came and painted in the garden this year as part of Paint Grand Traverse. Congratulations to Pam Spicer for selling her fabulous picture of my garden shed.

SOLD! "Old Mission Flowers Garden Shed" by Pam Spicer.

See more at: http://www.paintgrandtraverse.com/shop

Address

16550 Center Road
Traverse City, MI
49686

Telephone

+12314995474

Website

http://www.oldmissionflowers.com/

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There are gladiolus and then there are fancy gladiolus! I’ve been adding to the collection at Old Mission Flowers.

Come pick a bouquet at Old Mission Flowers on the corner of Ladd and Center. The garden is open from dawn until dusk and everything you need is in the shed - do bring cash or a checkbook, sensible shoes and your camera. These pictures were taken 9/14/19

Pick A Bouquet

Happy Labor Day Weekend! Come pick a bouquet at Old Mission Flowers at the corner of Ladd and Center. Everything you need is in the garden shed, just bring sensible shoes, cash or a check and your camera. Photos were taken 8/31/19.

Pick a Bouquet - August 8, 2019

Come pick a bouquet of summer flowers at Old Mission Flowers. The garden is open from dawn until dusk and everything you need is in the white and green garden shed. Be sure to bring sensible shoes, cash or a check and your camera.

The hot color summer flowers are in bloom and the dahlias are just beginning. The garden is open from dawn to dusk and everything you need for picking is in the garden shed.

Pick a Bouquet

The garden has really popped back with the late summer rain and warmth. As always, the garden is open from dawn until dusk. Clippers, containers, water and flower food are left out for your use.

Old Mission Flowers - Pick a Bouquet

The garden is open for bouquet picking from dawn until dusk all summer long. Just bring sensible shoes, cash or a check, and your camera.

Pick A Bouquet

A great trick for displaying lilies and other heavy flowers is to cut them short. Make a grid of scotch tape on a low bowl, poke some foliage in to cover the tape, and then the blooms. It's easy and elegant. I just read Lisa Mason Ziegler's new book, Vegetables Love Flowers and appreciated this quote, "One of the joys of flowers is sharing them. Drop a bouquet on the porch of someone who needs a lift, and you will be lifted too."

Pick A Bouquet

Old Mission Flowers is loaded with daisies, lilies, snapdragons, sweet peas and roses. Clippers, water, containers and flower food are ready for you - just bring sensible shoes, cash or a check, and your camera.

Pick A Bouquet at Old Mission Flowers

The cutting garden is open from dawn until dusk. Just bring sensible shoes, cash or a check, and your camera.

Pick-a-Bouquet at Old Mission Flowers.

Delphiniums, Canterbury Bells, Roses, Daisies, Snapdragons, Speedwells and many more summer flowers are opening with the long days and warmth. The garden is open from dawn until dusk and everything you need to cut a bouquet is available under the white canopy.

The summer flowers are busting out after a good rain and the consistently warm temperature. Old Mission Flowers is a self-serve, pick-a-bouquet business with hundreds of different kinds of plants. A quart jar sized bouquet costs $15.00.

The pictures were taken the morning of 6/22/2018.

Pick A Bouquet of peonies!

The garden has 30+ varieties of peonies and most of them are just beginning to bloom. Cut your own bouquet, $2.00/stem. Clippers, water, flower preservative and containers are available for your use. Wear sensible shoes and bring your camera! ‘Peonies’ by Mary Oliver This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready to break my heart as the sun rises, as the sun strokes them with his old, buttery fingers and they open — pools of lace, white and pink — and all day the black ants climb over them, boring their deep and mysterious holes into the curls, craving the sweet sap, taking it away to their dark, underground cities — and all day under the shifty wind, as in a dance to the great wedding, the flowers bend their bright bodies, and tip their fragrance to the air, and rise, their red stems holding all that dampness and recklessness gladly and lightly, and there it is again — beauty the brave, the exemplary, blazing open. Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever?

Pick-a-Bouquet

The garden is open from dawn to dusk - you are welcome anytime, however the best for cutting is when it is cool and calm. Clippers, containers, water, and flower food are available. All you need to bring are sensible shoes, cash or a check and your camera.

Pick-A-Bouquet at Old Mission Flowers

The garden response to the warm rain is amazing. Please come visit and pick a bouquet - it is open from dawn to dusk. Quart jar size bouquets are $15.00.

Old Mission Flowers - moving into summer...

Tulipa

The peninsula is gorgeous! The tart cherries are in bloom and my garden is full of tulips and narcissus. They are both 50 cents a stem. Bring your camera and please share your pictures.