Backroad Blooms Flower Farm

03/07/2024

We brought a couple fresh bouquets 💐 to Junk & Disorderly today. They are only open today until 5pm, so snag them soon. Otherwise you will have to wait until next Wednesday when we restock. They are closed the rest of this week.

03/07/2024

Have you met our new farm mascot?

This is Peepers. He(or she)'s been living with us for about half of his life outside of his egg. We rescued him about 11 days ago.

He's been enjoying his time here on the farm. Now that his feathers are coming in, he's been practicing his flying.

If you would like to know more about Peepers, and his rescue story, check out our latest on the farm newsletter.

I will leave it in the comments along with a separate link to sign-up for our newsletter for more farm stories, events, and special sales.

02/07/2024

Make sure to grab some beautiful sunflowers on your way home from work today!

Two for Tuesday! 🌻🌻

Today only Tuesday, July 2nd, you get two sunflower bouquets for $20.

⚠️You must buy two to get the deal.⚠️

We have limited quantities so snag one for you and one for a friend before they're gone.

Emily also worked hard to make a special bouquet which you will find in the jar. Her bouquet is $20.

📍11285 US 20 A (between Wauseon and Delta)
💲20 (Cash or Venmo)

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02/07/2024

Seeing this many beautiful dahlias🌸🌼💐 blooming again definitely lifted our spirits about the farm last night.

Over the past few weeks, there has been so much uncertainty and unusable flowers. 😢

Thankfully, it seems that we took the right actions, and things are starting to turn back around for us.

I'll share more later this week. There's one particular flower we are still waiting on with bated breath. 🤞

30/06/2024

As you are heading out to visit friends on this gorgeous day, grab a bouquet 💐from the stand for a "just because" 🎁 gift.

The stand is stocked and ready for you today.

📍11285 US 20 A (between Wauseon and Delta)
💲20 (Cash or Venmo)

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29/06/2024

Farmer's Market Special on 🌻🌻🌻🌻Sunflowers!
7 stems for $10.
Come on down to Delta today to get your cheery flowers to brighten your home.
🕗 8am -12pm
📍Downtown Delta Corner of Main St. & Wilson St.

28/06/2024

Looking for a way to make someone smile today? Grab your jar of happiness and bunches of smiles from the stand.

📍11285 US 20 A Between Wauseon and Delta.

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📆 You can also find us at the Delta Farmer's Market tomorrow starting at 8am. We may have to close up if the storms come so get there early.🌻🌼💐🌸

26/06/2024

Fun Fact: Sunflowers 🌻, like tulips, bloom when they feel like it and if you blink... You Miss It!

This morning before the storm I did a quick walk thru of the sunnies before making sure everything was secured before our big storm. Nothing new from last night needed harvested.

Fast forward to 3pm today when the storm was long gone and the sun and warm had come out. Seemingly out of nowhere, all these sunflowers decided this was the time to bloom.

It didn't matter we had to leave for Miss Emily's softball tournament in less than an hour, so I quickly ran for the snips and harvested as many as I could before we left.

We harvest sunflowers ideally when the first petals lift off the center, so they can have an even longer vase life for bouquets.

Do you have a favorite type of sunflower? Let us know in comments

Emily's favorite is the Teddy Bear and mine is a tie between Ruby Eclipse or Pro Cut Plum.

22/06/2024

Emily & I are together again at the Delta Farmers Market!
We haven't been able to put flowers at the stand in this heat wave because of Mr. 🌞 shining so bright on the stand.

Come see us at the Market today to get your flower fix! 🥰

🌸We also have some dahlia plants for sale grown by us.

There's lots of yummy jams, jellies, and Baked goodies from Garden View Quilting and doggie treats from Wagging Tails Bakery!

📍Downtown Delta in the parking lot on the corner Main St. And Wilson St.

22/06/2024

20/06/2024

I was not made for this heat...🥵

Hopefully, one day, I can have a summer vacation home in Alaska to enjoy during the hottest months and come back to Ohio for the rest of the year.

Drink your water 💦 if you are out in this heat!

19/06/2024

The summer flowers are here, and tonight, they are matching the sunset! 😍😍😍😍

16/06/2024

As you're off visiting your dads for Father's Day today, don't forget to stop by the stand for your weekly 💐 bouquet to brighten your week.

📍11285 US 20 A (between Wauseon and Delta)

💲20 (Cash or Venmo)

The snap dragons and stock are starting to realize how hot it is outside which means we won't have their beautiful blooms much longer. Grab them before they are gone.

15/06/2024

It's Farmer's Market Day! Emily and I are at the Delta and Defiance Farmer's Markets this morning. Come on out and say hi.

15/06/2024

When you have a softball 🥎 game that goes until sunset, it means you are harvesting by headlamp for tomorrow's bouquet bar. 💐
Don't forget to come on out to the Delta Farmer's Market tomorrow to check out all the new blooms and the other vendors.

14/06/2024

Today at the flower stand you will find all kinds of beautiful flowers. Our mason jars hold some dahlias. Our wrapped bouquets have sunflowers and our first zinnia. The pink mason jar holds a new kind of flower for the farm. It's called Bells of Ireland. It has a fun fruity like scent to it.

📍11285 US 20 A (between Wauseon and Delta)

💲20 (Cash or Venmo)

📆Tomorrow, you will find us at the Delta and Defiance Farmer's Markets.💐

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11/06/2024

It's been a busy few days trying to take advantage of the beautiful weather while we have it. The flowers love the heat, but I'm not looking forward to it.

The stand is stocked and ready.

📍11285 US 20 A (between Wauseon and Delta)
💲20 (Cash or Venmo)

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09/06/2024

Moving soil and compost isn't much fun in the middle of the afternoon, so we took a break.

Just a mile and half from our flower stand is🍓 Warncke Berry Farm 🍓where you can pick strawberries. That's exactly what we did! Tonight, we will be enjoying strawberry smoothies as we pick flowers at sunset.

They are open 8am-8pm daily, and we recommend you check them out. 🥰

This message has been approved by Emily. 😉 (Who started eating the berries we picked as they were being weighed. 😂)

09/06/2024

Summer is kicking off here at the farm. We have quite the mix of flowers in our Mason Jar arrangements including dahlias and calla lilies.

I'm not super big into floral scents but one of my favorites is stock! It has this lovely nutmeg/clove scent that I just ❤️. I made sure to put a few stems in where ever I could for you. I'm super lucky because I planted the stock right infront of my studio, I'm greeted with that scent every time I walk out. 🥰

The stand is stocked and ready for you today.

📍11285 US 20 A (between Wauseon and Delta)
💲20 (Cash or Venmo)

💐If you would like to support Miss Emily's flowers, her bouquet is the darker blue Mason Jar. 😊

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09/06/2024

Do you like a good mystery? 🕵‍♀️

Fall 2023 - The frost had killed our beautiful dahlias, and now it was time for us to dig them up to store for winter.

Unfortunately, life got in the way, and I never got around to labeling the dahlias. At this point, I figured I knew what each variety was, and I would be able to keep the clumps in a way where I could identify the clumps based on where they were planted. I took photos and thought that would help jog my memory if I got stuck. I only had 25 to worry about. I could keep those straight.

That plan worked for about 12 hours until I realized I had forgotten which clumps were around the yard, and the photos were not much help. 😅 Oops.

So this spring, when I decided to wake the tubers up in February for cuttings, I decided I would need a good system.

I decided to wake the tubers up in plastic totes and would label each clump and cutting with a letter. It's worked so far, but now comes the waiting game.

Before I can truly name each of those dahlias, I have to wait to see what blooms.

Adding to the mystery is the fact that I had to throw away about 5 dahlias because I suspected they had gall.

I returned to the photos I took last season to see if I had enough clues about which dahlias got tossed so I knew to buy more of that variety.

I've got a few of the dahlias that I think I know what it was, but the mystery isn't solved yet.

Because I woke my tubers up in February we already solved 3 mysteries and more will be coming soon.

One thing is for sure, I'm making sure I label everything I can for this year. I also have all the dahlias that were grown from tubers in grow bags to help contain any gall situations we may have.

I definitely learned my lesson. 😆

08/06/2024

Come see us at the Farmer's Market! We have Lilies and Sunflowers 🌻

Emily is in Defiance selling bouquets, and you can build your own flower bouquet here in Delta.

05/06/2024

Yes, that is a locally grown peach sunflower 🌻 available at the stand today. I love all sunflowers, but that peach is one of my favorites.

📍11285 US 20 A Between Wauseon and Delta.

🌸Our ranunculus are slowing down and going dormant, so this week is most likely the last week to enjoy them.

🗞 Don't forget to join our newsletter for updates on farm events, sales, and our farm stories. 🔗 Link is in the comments.

📆 You can also find us at the Delta and Defiance Farmer's Markets on Saturday mornings.

04/06/2024

It's Lily season! Since it's so hot, I won't have flowers out at the stand today, but I will put them out tomorrow instead.

02/06/2024

If you need some flowers 💐to brighten this 🌧 rainy, day we have the flower stand stocked.

📍11285 US 20 A Between Wauseon and Delta.

🌸Our ranunculus are slowing down and going dormant, so this week is most likely the last week to enjoy them.

🗞 Don't forget to join our newsletter for updates on farm events, sales, and our farm stories. 🔗 Link is in the comments.

📆 You can also find us at the Delta and Defiance Farmer's Markets on Saturday Mornings.

01/06/2024

While we can say we grew a lot of our flowers from seeds, we did not grow them all from seed.

🪴We've visited numerous local greenhouses and nurseries over the past few years for flowers (mainly perennials). Sometimes they have a different variety that we didn't have, other times it's a plant we didn't know existed.

🌱We've also invested in plugs for some of our flowers. At the Farmer's Market today, we were asked a few times if we had lisianthus. We do, but they are not ready yet. (Pictured below)

💐Lisianthus are one of those flowers that we've chosen to grow from seed as well as purchase plugs. They were the first flower we started growing way back in January and as you can see, they are still quite "fun-sized".

We grew four different varieties, and by the time they were big enough to plant out at the beginning of April, we only had about 40 seedlings left between the varieties. Now we have about 7-9 varieties in this bed because we chose to purchase plugs.

🕗📆Because of how difficult they are to keep alive from January until August/September they are considered a more premium flower. They definitely make all hard work involved with growing them worth it when they bloom later this summer.

At the bottom of the photo you can see the plugs we purchased which are Apricot Lisianthus, Light Pink Lisianthus, Blue Veronica, and Cherokee Sunset Rudbeckia

☀️💐So later this summer, keep your eyes peeled for these beautiful blooms.

01/06/2024

01/06/2024

Come see us tomorrow at the Delta Farmer's Market for our first bouquet bar!

Grab your friend, sibling, mom, or kids abs come build the perfect flower bouquet to take home or give to someone special. ♥️ We will be in the parking lot on Main St. from 8am - noon!

27/05/2024

Eeek!!! 😁😁😁😁 The sunflowers are coming very soon! 🌻🌻🌻🌻

Being my favorite flower and one of Emily's top 5, I started planting sunflowers the moment I saw the first volunteer sunflower sprouted in our patch from last year. I've been succession planting them ever since so we can have sunflowers all summer long.

These seeds were soaked in water for 12 hours before putting them out on March 29. If all goes accordingly to plan they were supposed to bloom around my husband's birthday on May 29th. With temps being a bit cooler in spring, it may be a little longer. I'm not 100% sure. Last year our volunteer sunflowers looked like this at the beginning of July and we had our first two blooms on July 8. So there's hope for May sunflowers.

27/05/2024

Before & After

I have 3 extra wide rows. 2 of them hold perennials and then there's this one. It holds a lot of different flowers and fillers. I put seed down in April and with all the rain we got a lot of seedlings that popped up. I wasn't sure what the seedlings I planted would look like, so I waited to pull w**ds.

Things go busy and w**ds took over. I have a bunch of seedlings I started inside that are ready to go, so I started w**ding this before the storms and just now finished. I put some seedlings in in the front half and just have a few more before it's done.

Weeds can definitely be a pain, but hopefully the seedlings take off so we will have less to w**d this summer.

I will have flowers at the stand this week, but it fell again today, and I saw some repairs before it fell that are needed. I will try for tomorrow, but if not tomorrow, then Tuesday for sure.

If you are inneed of a bouquet for a special occasion, feel free to message through Facebook messenger.

26/05/2024

Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Delta Farmers Market today! I enjoyed getting to meet you and chat.

We aren't out of flowers yet.

We have a fresh batch that Emily and I harvested at sunset tonight. Look for bouquets at the stand tomorrow morning. 💐💐💐

11285 US 20 A Wauseon