The 2023 Season Begins
Hi. I hope you and your loved ones are all doing well! I’m looking forward to seeing you in the store again. Since several of our varieties, including dahlias, zinnias,…
Category: cut flower farm
Steps 2, 3, and 4 of our 10-step plan to grow dahlias
I’m taking a brief break from currently completing step 10 to write to you, now, about steps 2 – 4. During the next few days, however, I will return to…
Our ten-step plan for how to grow dahlias
Because I write fiction, I’m sometimes inspired to add a few literary devices when I blog. For example, I included the use of personification, alliteration, and metaphors in my last…
Growing my new favorite flower, the dahlia
French poet, Paul Verlaine, describes my new preferred bloom magnificently in his poem, “Un Dahlia”, or “The Dahlia”. He writes: “Ainsi le Dahlia, roi vêtu de splendeur…” (12) or “Thus…
Closed today on 9/3/22
Good morning! In contrast to my last two posts, this one is quite brief. The reason our sign says that our farm market is closed today is that our daughter,…
Why have we chosen flowers as our new crop?
Jim and I recognized two years ago that flowers have always been part of our family. Flowers marked both his and my births. Loved ones offered humble bouquets to both…
Hi!
Welcome to my blog. This first post is a long time coming, and I’m excited to finally get to write it. The past few months have been filled with long…