Making the most of the warm sunshine this week. We got ranunculus all in earlier and today we got first batch of snapdragons into the tunnel!
Yassss! Soaking in all the glorious sunshine this week! Check out what's coming up this spring! I will put links in comments.💐
One year ago we began with an unused empty field and transformed it into a beautiful half acre of rows upon rows of flowers! Not really sure one can put an entire year or thousands of pics into a few words or short clips but here I am! Thankful, eager, excited and happy!
From tulips and daffodils, ranunculus and anemone and sweet peas, snapdragons and stock, peonies, strawflowers, cosmos, marigolds, daisies, zinnias, dahlias and sunflowers and everything in between!
Playing in dirt and beautiful flowers is my paradise.
In our first year of flower farming we did bouquet subscriptions, weekly grab n go bouquets, farmer's markets, taught bouquet classes, did our first wedding florals, filled special orders for anniversaries, retirements, did mobile bouquet bar for birthday parties and more! Truly it's a little overwhelming to realize just what all we really did!!
It was all in or nothing and it paid off big time!
I am so excited to be in our second year with more flowers, more events lined up, better services and more options, new things we are growing (eucalyptus, lavender, willows, pumpkins) and bigger selection of dahlias!
Thank you again to all of our customers, clients and our spring blooms will be here soon!
#flowers #flowerfarm #iowaflowers #iowaflowerfarm #flowerfarming #flowergardening #dahlias #zinnias #bouquets #flowerbouquets #upickfarm #upickfarmiowa
Behind the scenes, checking my dahlia tubers to see which one's are waking up and looking for sprouts to make cuttings with.
Also I am determined to stay more organized with my dahlias this year!! I had about 20 last year where the Id tag blew away and while I had gone out and walked my rows mapping them late summer...it was too late and the labels everywhere. (Bit windy at my field).
This year I took the time to do a legit spreadsheet with pics of all my dahlias (old, new and those ??).
I will come back after this year's planting and make another one with actual row placement layouts. I'm going use tree tape for labeling them and more stakes with metal signs to keep my dahlias organized.
I'm really happy to see my little dahlia babies growing well!
#dahlias #dahliacare #dahliatubers #dahliafarm #flowerfarm #iowaflowers #iowaflowerfarm #localflowers #beautifulflowers #growingdahlias
Same shirt different video!🤣 Updates on expected timing for spring blooms and more!!
Link in comments!
End of January warmth and sunshine! Making the most of it this week, getting into the high tunnel, planting ranunculus corms and sowing a few flower seeds. #iowaflowers #flowers #iowaflowerfarm #flowerfarm #flowerfarming #upickfarm #ranunculus
We ✔️ off and completed our BIG fall project today! We made the most of this warm sunny day and finished up rewrapping the doors and finished getting the rows cleaned up and ready for 2025! We officially expanded the tunnel and wrapped the entire thing in better thicker plastic. She's secured up for winter and we'll be planting flowers in here come February!
That's a wrap (no pun intended) on our first year flower farming! On to year 2!
Behind the scenes of flower farming...we've already started flowers for next season!
Behind the scenes...what's blooming, holiday flowers and gifts and improvements we are doing!
New bouquets available for porch pickup!
$15 each.
More pics of them in comments.
Wahoo! It's Friday and the sun is shining. Let's see what's blooming and happening in our flower farm. Found something neat today.
I will be posting a few ready to go bouquets tonight so check back if you'd like fresh flowers!
We are a little Iowa flower farm just off I80 near Homestead, with weekly you picks and fresh cut bouquets.
