Hunt Country Flowers

07/24/2024

Delivery days are such a whirlwind of activity that I remember to take pics only as we load up. (I was spraying a foliar feed before it’s 100° out and lost track of time 😳)

Thankfully our clients share finished pieces.

Running an organic flower farm is not easy but it is fun.

07/23/2024

Love these Zowie zinnias. Seed is expensive comparatively but worth it for the punch they pack.

07/18/2024

Rose-like and ruffled, lisianthus blooms twirl open from lime green buds like a prima donna in a tutu. Locally grown lissies are puffy and ruffled, unlike their squashed imported counterparts.

At 24” tall with 5 blooms per stem, designers love their delicate elegance and hardy constitution. They last for 2 weeks in the vase.

We plant them in early March and cover with frost cloth. We usually get two flushes off this crop and they sometimes survive our zone 7 winters.

07/17/2024

This is my secret to success. What’s yours?
We start early and work hard. It makes us happy. Nature is our home.

07/17/2024

This is my secret to success. What’s yours?

We start early and work hard. It makes us happy. Nature is our home.

07/15/2024

Reaping the reward of dahlias.

🌸Dug and divided.
🌸Wrapped and stored.
🌸Humped and spread compost.
🌸Broadforked.
🌸Planted from April to June.
🌸Applied cubic yards of leaf mulch.
🌸Pinched.
🌸Staked and netted.
🌸Now weekly: w**d and foliar feed.

07/13/2024

I overhead water because it most closely mimics nature.

Another plus is that wetting down the leaves on dahlias reduces stress on the plant during intense heat.

At the start of the season I panicked because there wasn’t enough water pressure to operate the impulse sprinklers.

Problem was sediment accumulating in screen filters that I use to control a pulse watering schedule.

My handy personal engineer ❤️rigged up an auto flushing filter.

Now the dahlias and I are both happier.

How do you water? What equipment do you use and what’s your timing? Inquiring minds want to know.

07/12/2024

After the rain the world seems wonderous and new. Still, thankfully there are flowers.

07/11/2024

The flowers keep blooming even as their minders hide inside from the heat.

We’re up early and out late to harvest. Folks count on us to help them celebrate life’s most important moments: birth, death and all the love in between.

I offer an alternative to imported flowers squashed in a box, shipped on a plane, doused with chemicals, 2 weeks old by the time they reach you.

When you order, I answer the phone. We chat. Then I go out to my flower gardens and pick the prettiest blooms just for you. Condition, arrange.

My sweet husband delivers them like newborn babies, with tender loving care. Don’t try to tip him. He won’t accept. We do this because we love it. Thank you for enabling our flower filled life.

07/06/2024

Wedding designers like know the secret to getting the freshest, most unusual flowers to distinguish their work. Seasonal, local, organically grown flowers. DM me for availability.

07/05/2024

Some red, white and blue for you. 🇺🇸

07/02/2024

Our sweet lil flower girl brightens our days like sunny rudbeckia🌻

06/27/2024

Early morning planting. We soak the bed before and again when we finish planting. Then water by hand daily for about a week to get plants established. We’ll be cutting these from August until frost.

06/25/2024

Once you become an entrepreneur, you have only two outcomes: 1) You eventually succeed. 2) You give up before you do.

Persistence is the discriminator.

Drowning in snaps here. Save me!

06/18/2024

Trying to untangle it WHEN IT’S 90°!! Check on your farming friends. We are not ok.

06/18/2024

06/14/2024

Welcoming the first dahlias of the season. Woman-owned small business. Warrenton, VA flower farm. Fresh, lush, organic flowers artfully designed and delivered.

06/12/2024

Being myself. So people looking for me can find me. I’ll be in the garden.

06/11/2024

The hard work of a flower farm pays off in the harvest.

06/07/2024

Organically grown poppies are papery perfection in the flower garden and floral design.

06/06/2024

Good medicine. Easy to see why feverfew helps what ails you. 😉

06/03/2024

Back in my cut flower garden tending premium organic blooms after a weekend of floral design for a posh Maryland house and garden tour.

06/03/2024

Organically grown, fresh cut flowers delivered to upscale designers this morning. Peonies and poppies didn’t make it into the shot.

05/31/2024

In the pink. Let’s flower the weekend🌸

05/20/2024

A trip around the color wheel using premium flowers we grow organically. Fresh picked from our flower farm to 3 Michelin-star . me

05/19/2024

Tall garden phlox is a fragrant perennial. ~4 weeks of blooms for cuts. White blooms first. Pure and pink follow.

05/18/2024

Organic flowers homegrown on our family farm in Warrenton, VA enhance elegant spaces in posh places.

05/16/2024

When clients collide. Event planner http://www.klcevents.com

01/12/2024

Current sitch

01/09/2024

Making my list and checking it twice