So many beautiful spring flowers.
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| Peonies. |
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| Peonies, dark sweet peas, white goat's beard, purple delphinium and lavender colored catmint. Quite a cart full of beauty. |
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| These sweet peas have two colors. Foxglove is also in this cart. |
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| Vibrant pink foxglove, purple delphinium, peonies, white goat's beard. |
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| In the background we are growing golden hops. Any ideas on what is in the foreground? |
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| So many pretty spring flowers. |
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| Catmint, pink and yellow snapdragons, white bell flowers, pink tinged Canterbury bells. |
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| Peonies, dark pink Sweet William, bending blue Veronica with apricot foxgloves. |
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| A couple bouquets. |
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| Tall off white foxglove, pale pink peonies with flecks of dark pink in the centers, delicate verbascum with its arching habit. |
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| Bright lilies, dark pink peonies, for greenery add in a bit of hyssop. In the background, a tall yellow verbascum with a plum center. |
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| Canterbury bells in multiple colors. |
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| I adore pink flowers of all kinds. Lupine, peonies, Sweet William, foxgloves, snapdragons, Jupiter's Beard. |
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| So many to choose from. |
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| Bouquets for days. |
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| Meadowsweet is so delicate looking. |
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| Touches of pink on this fragrant yellow rose. |
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| Peonies thrive here on Shady Maple Farm and have for decades. Mom loved peonies. |
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| Our red, white, and blue bed around the old chicken coop. |
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| Set up for the day begins. Grams has helpers. |
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| Bryan and Mickey hang up our new sign making sure it is level. |
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| Angie took some of grandpa Ken's handwritten recipes and came up with "grandpa font". She then made this sign. It is sooo Lisa and my dad's handwriting. Pretty cool, right? |
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| Toasting our first CSA week for our 7th year. Good times. |
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| Jupiter's Beard is loving its new location. |
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| Lisa's arm load of fresh picks. White lupine along with dahlias from the greenhouse plants. |
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| Grams aka Mary, Angie and little Louise as supervisor, sort and bundle chives. The flowers are edible, too. |
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| Bryan and Mickey sort and tag pac choi. Our sparkling cider bottles haven't been moved yet. |
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| Trying to streamline our production, electrical tape makes 20 sections. Fewer times counting to 20 during a production day as we have 20 harvest boxes going out each Tuesday. |
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| Beautifully fragrant bundles of lavender are getting put together. |
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| Louise and Grams. Love this pic! |
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| Grams and Mickey sort and bundle oregano. |
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| Left to right: Angie, Louise, Anna, and Levi harvest sorrel. |
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| Our young lettuce bed. |
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| We grow basil in the greenhouse to give it a head start. It loves it warm. |
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| Angie harvests basil in the brightness of the greenhouse. |
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| Today's list. |
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| Angie's kiddos are selling their eggs. |
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| The note board's first message for the season. |
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| Always learning more. Landscape fabric with holes burned in to it for the plants. Drip irrigation underneath. We are trying to outwit the weeds. |
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| MANY plants fit into this 150 foot long row. 9 inches apart with room to walk along the edges. |
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| The first of the onion seedlings we grew from seed are in the ground. |
See you next time on the blog.
Lorrie
