This is my fourth year growing a sunflower patch and every single year there is always one sunflower that blooms before the rest.
Always.
I am sure there is something symbolic to be said about that but I dont have the words.
So here she is in all her early shinning beauty ✨🌻
#teacupflowerco #easternshore #flowerfarm #fallelujah #fypage #fallflowers #sunflowerpatch
My favorite past time of late is cutting massive handfuls of the prettiest flower ever.
And our new farm doggies is the cutest flower cutting sidekick
Flower: Cosmo
variety: double click snow puff
#teacupflowerco #easternshore #flowerfarm
The simplest incredients for a sweet little moment. A bridal bouquet request I couldnt say “no” too.
I find myself hestitant to do hard things. Afraid of the infamiliar. And to be honest I havent tackled a bridal bouquet in a good long while.
But it goes to show that experience and time, teach you skills without you even realizing it.
#teacupflowerco #flowerfarm #summer #localflowers #bridalbouquet
This summers been a tough one with heat and weeds and rain dumped buckets at a time.
But as we enter the cooler season of fall the flowers and I breathe a sigh of relief and the buckets start filling up again 🎀💕
#teacupflowerco #easternshore #flowerfarm #freshflowers #cosmosflower
Yup. The pathways aren’t supposed to be green.
But it took a lot of work to this point where the beds are full of seedlings and the green that fills them up isn’t weeds!
I am gonna call it a win! Now to just wait for all the sunflowers and maybe (or maybe not) do something about the wire grass that just won’t quit!
#teacupflowerco #easternshore #flowerfarm #freshflowers #summerflowers
Much of flower growing is the planning and dreaming! Color palettes, variety and dreamy combinations!
While I have some hard lessons learned this year, I am adjusting Teacup visions for the 2025 season. Cause at the end of the day I am a mama before a flower farmer and these babies dont keep!
Zinnias are gonna be my best friend next year but we arent talking a few colors and a couple rows.
My visions include inviting the community onto the farm, picnics, flower picking, photoshoots and buckets upon buckets of flowers just like these.
Even with the dreams for next year unfolding, this year isnt over! And when I walk through the beautiful weedy mess that is our current flower field there are still tresures to unfold. This pretty bucket being a perfect example!
Varieties:
Zinnnia - victorian wedding
Zinnia - benary giant salmon rose
Zinnia - Queen Lime Orange
Marigold - Giant Orange
#teacupflowerco #flowerfarm #summer #freshflowers #floretzinnias
Pretty bouquets of flowers are the best kinds of rainy day pick-me-up 🌸🎀
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#teacupflowerco #freshflowers #summerflowers #bouquets #easternshoremd
When all the little pieces come together ans it makes something pretty like this!
Even admist the weeds and frusttations there is still beauty in my little gardens 🌸🎀
This heat 😅
We’ve been chilling a lot inside lately. And you know what’s made me smile? Flowers on the kitchen table. And flowers on the counter! Flowers just make everything okay.
And I wanna share that kinda of moment with you!
We have Zinnia Bouquets up for grabs this weekend! And special pricing if you get 2 or more! Cause flowers all over the house is a good idea.
#teacupflowerco #zinnias #summerflowers #easternshoremd
How to get magical zinnais:
Give them time. I think I have always over cut my zinnias. Thats what we are told right?
The more you cut the more they bloom! But for my climate? It seems if I cut too often they only produce singles.
The missing piece us cutting once or twice a week and giving them the chance to recover and add on the beautiful layers of ruffles.
100% worth the wait
#teacupflowerco #easternshore #flowerfarm #zinnias
Momma to 3 little people while running our little flower farm means… ALOT OF WEEDS 🤣
Just being real! This year has been the year of… weeds.
Which has had me thinking and pondering all the flowery things of Teacup.
Are the flowers going anywhere? Not a chance.
Am I shifting focus? Tweaking goals and making new, better plan? YESSSSS! And the dahalias in this bouquet? They are the affirmation I needed
#teacupflowerco #easternshore #floralarrnagemnt #wrappedbouquet
Our buckwheat experiment is full speed ahead!
The plan is to grow it. Crimp it. And then plant zinnias right into it.
We are using it like a straw to suppress weeds and also as a green manure to increase organic matter in the soil.
My termination method: A proud little farmer and his tractor!
#teacupflowerco #farmerintraining #covercropping #buckwheat
Ya’ll.
My love affair with zinnias just got alot a bit stonger.
Weeks of drought. And then an onslaught of rain left so many things stuggles and being eaten up by the weeds.
But not the zinnais. They are happy and content with this seasons lot we’ve been dealt. and I can pick bucketfuls when I venture out into the weed infested garden 😅
Whoever said zinnias are boring just didn’t grow enough.
These blooms may be simple but when the colors are put together and the quantities start increasing they are what I would call “understatedly elegant”
varieties in this bucket:
🌸Benary giant salmons rose
🌸Oklahoma pink
🌸Florets Victorian Wedding
🌸Florets Precious Metals
#teacupflowerco #zinnias #easternshore #floretseeds
When those zinnais hit just right.
Shades of pinks and peaches in the form of sunshine? Sounds delightful to me.
Want to make an elegantly simple arrangement? Follow along cause thats coming next ✨
#teacupflowerco #easternshore #zinnia #floralarrnagemnt
the ruffles of this zinnia get me very single time.
show stopping. end of story.
florets zinnia “Victorian Wedding”
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#teacupflowerco #easternshore #floretzinnias #floretflower #zinnia
Statice this year was a stunner. 5+ varieties planted but only 2 made it out of their trays and into the beds.
But those 2 rows: 6 massive harvests and over 1500 stems picked!
Some were used in fresh bouquets but ALOT was hung to dry for fall projects and workshops!
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#flowerfarm #teacupflowerco #driedflowers
The first handful of floret victorian wedding zinnais!
Each year I try to get something “RIGHT”. Like home-run-outta-the-park kinda right.
This year it’s the zinnais. overseeded. so many trays. so many rows.
It’s all still in the works but fall time? the flower stands is making a comeback and zinnais are gonna be rolling through here by the wagon loads 🤞🏼
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#teacupflowerco #floretseeds #flowerstand #zinnais
For me?
A sanity saver. A creative outlet. A peace amidst the storm. A reason to push my limits.
Growing them. Sharing them. Enjoying them.
They are my heaven on earth.
Surrounding yourself with beautiful things can make your world a better place.
Filling your mind with what you are capable of and who you can be will pull you through the days that seem hard.
I am here for you friend. Growing flowers to bring you something good and reminding you of the beautiful thing that you are. ❤️