may 2021
Winter had been a flurry of excitement; we were freshly inspired from our Floret “crash course to flower farming” Workshop. We had overflowing shelves of vibrant flower babies that we had tenderly cared for the past three months and the ground was finally thawing! You couldn’t have kept us inside if you had tried.
May was unforgiving in the fact that she threw a whole season of weather at us in a matter of a week or two. It ranged from 90 degree sunburns that slyly persuaded us it was safe to plant 200 snapdragons to us finishing this planting and then swiftly being chased from the garden by the first hailstorm. Thankfully no snapdragon babies were harmed during this tumultuous time. After this we ventured forward a little more hesitant only to be greeted by frost warnings that resulted in plant covering parties in the sleet and very unhappy campers.
Don’t let this fool you, we were not dissuaded and continued much more hesitant but we have to say much more confident. We joked that we had already experienced everything that could happen to us in a flower season and we ready to go!
A few weeks later we were rewarded with our first beautiful spring blooms. Fresh aromatic tulips and cherry blossoms dripping with morning fog and dew. Spring is such a phenomenal time after months and months of cold and dark Wisconsin winter. Our first Spring CSA was greeted with this mix of blossoms and it felt like such a gratifying way to ease into our summer season.
Gardening is truly the experience of planning for the future. Last autumn we had planted specialty tulips bulbs with the promising hope of building our tulip share bouquets. Allow me to introduce you to the most ruffly, sweetest variety of tulips: the double peony tulip. We will never not grow them. These specialty tulips like Angelique and Mount Tacoma made the tulip share so unique and we have since planted so, so many more of them to share in the 2022 season!
The final week of May ushered in even weather and our very first anemone bloom. This amazing little navy blue centered flower made us forget the stress of the beginning of the month, re-energizing us to finish the planting and making big plans to open the flower cart!
