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Zinnia Rainbow

Ok, how fun is this?!?!?!

We trimmed back the first blooming of zinnias in order to encourage longer stems and more growth, and I couldn’t just let the deadheads languish in the field.

After I took the photographs, there was nothing left to do but sweep the flowers into a bucket and toss them in the compost. I felt like a Tibetan monk with her sand mandala, grateful for the experience of having made it.


Rudbeckia

BAMJOY! Rudbeckia! You might know them as Black-eyed Susans, but they don’t always have black eyes. They are pure sunshine summertime goodness.


A Morning Field Walk

The 7am sun was glowing off the undersides of the tree leaves when I pulled into the farm the other morning. Before Clara and I met up for our daily check-in, I took a tour with the lower field with my camera. This is what I found…

Rudbeckia reaching for a morning stretch…

Delphinium yawning open…

Dianthus dripping off the dew…

Snapdragons shaking out their skirts…

Bugs rousing in the false Queen Anne’s Lace…

And sunflowers throwing back their drapes.


Good morning, flower farm. 

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