Buongiorno!  There are some beautiful flowers for this week, newly blooming and new to Bindweed.  If you are lucky you'll get some Orlaya, pictured below.  It is a short flower but has a big impact, only 8-10 inches tall it looks like a cross between viburnum "Lace Cap" and a hefty Queen Anne's lace.  Very romantic.  Also new are the nigella pods in lime green and chocolate burgundy.  We have grown monarda citriordora before but not for some years, RT loves it and so do the humming birds.  It looks like something out of a Dr Seuss book, very whimsical, and smells lemony, hence the nickname "Lemon Beebalm".  Definitely for the adventurous designer.

New cuts this week are "Green Mist", annual scabiosa, chocolate Susans, celosia and talinum, each are pictured below.  We are nearing the end of the second cut of Clematis Recta, monarda and cosmos.  The last crop of sweetpeas are spectacular--big hearty stems and flowers with a more ruffled appearance, deep rich colors and the unique fragrance.  Don't miss out on these!

Please consult your email and fax availability, the demand is very high (thank you sincerely) and varieties are disappearing almost as fast as I can get them on the list. 

A few new flowers at Bindweed available this week:  double ruffle green-centered suns, mini-sunflowers, mini-lilies, a new orange lily, nigella pods and white salvia.  The mini-suns are about the size of a large scabiosa on long stems with a yellow-green face.  Double ruffle green suns are large with multiple layers of tiny petals surrounding a dimpled green center.  The mini-lilies are much smaller, about half the size of an Asiatic, bright yellow with a wine freckled center .  We also have a new orange Asiatic lily, deep melon orange also with a wine freckled center.  Just as we harvested the last nigella flowers the nigella pods were forming.  The pods are a deep chocolate to maroon.  We have grown blue salvia for a few years and would occasionally find a white flowered plant, it was love at first sight!  The heads looks like velvet white grape hyacinths, just gorgeous.

New flowers for this week:  Blackeyed Susans, clarkia, cloud larkspur, foxglove, lavender, white phlox and verbena.  The lavender and floxglove are on the short side this year, strange weather swings, but they are lovely.

The clematis recta and clematis integrifolia are re-blooming and we just started cutting the third crop of sweet peas.  They are a summer variety with thicker, stronger, shorter stems--a sturdier, stockier variety for the heat of summer.  What they lack in stem length they make up for with their slightly ruffled petals.  RT could not discern the difference but Sam and I (we cut the majority of sweet peas) were struck immediately by their unique structure.  We love them.

Well this is odd--I am creating a post and the week is all but over.  Fourth of July week and the following week, are always big weeks for us and if I am busy filling orders, I know you are too!!  But seriously this week totally got ahead of me, flowers were selling out faster than I could post their availability.  Thank you, we really do appreciate you and LOVE to sell flowers.  I am only writing this for next year so that when planning ahead you might have some idea of what was available.