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Fresh Cuts Aug. 3-9

7/31/2015

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It's all about the container--inspiration hit just as I was throwing this tin out. It was the perfect compliment to the recipe book I was making for a bridal shower. Reduce. Reuse. Re-purpose. Recycle.
Another big week with loads of flowers going out to make lots of people happy.  New this week fuchsia plume celosia, second wave delphinium, highland millet, foxtail millet, tapestry millet, ornamental oregano and zinnias!!
We have a new crop of sunflowers, dark centered, mini suns and some green centered suns.  We have gorgeous new variety of zinnia--raspberry, a deep red-violet, somewhere between red and burgundy scabiosa.  (See photo below.)
If you follow bindweedfarm on instagram you will have seen the photo of the nigella pod with the top snipped off.  We have my sweet friend, Polly of Robin Hollow Farm, to thank for that inspiration.  Unfortunately we are down to the last bucket of pods. 
Please consult your email and faxes for current availability and have a gorgeous sunny weekend.
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Fresh Cuts July 27

7/25/2015

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Bouquet celebrating wine and lavender. "Annabelle" hydrangea, wine and lavender sweet peas, diablo, foxglove, clematis recta, viburnum berry, veronica, salvia and annual scabiosa.
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. 
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Fresh cuts August 18

8/15/2014

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Raspberry dahlias
The big news this week are dahlias and lisianthus.  We have dahlias in several gorgeous colors, they are simply scrumptious!  They are between 2 1/2 to 4 inches in diameter and vary in height.  We planted several different colors and plan to have a good selection on the truck each week.  We have lisianthus in four lovely colors--white/ivory, blue violet, lavender and a rose pink called "Carmen". 

The sunflowers are blooming in waves
and we have a good supply of chocolate and green centered flowers.
  And the zinnias are out of control!!  Walking between the rows is pure pleasure.  Our zinnias are white, lime, yellow, orange, coral, red and pink.

August is a tricky time in the season--a lot of varieties
are coming into their second bloom and so we might have enough to fill a  bucket on the truck but not enough to warrant a place on the availability list.  If you are a regular visitor to this blog you may have noticed that I  post photos of flowers that do not make the availability list due to limited quantities so please check the truck  carefully so as not to miss any goodies.
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Fresh Cuts Aug. 10

8/8/2014

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Sunflowers and storms.  Storms and sunflowers.  This week has been full of both--we had a massive storm Wednesday afternoon that left us with many mini-lakes but no real damage!  Yeah!  The bells of Ireland, sunflowers, delphinium, atriplex and amaranth that usually lay down under such pressure are just fine.  We lost most of the snaps, but have a new crop coming on soon, so no worries there.  The only real damage are dirty flowers--when the rain hits our dry Idaho soil it bounces right up and sticks on EVERYTHING.  We do our best to tidy up but the flowers this week have a lot of dirty stems.  It is just a matter of giving them a rinse before use, our apologies for the extra work.  (We do not rinse them because we cannot store them in the cooler wet and with the high temperatures the flowers must be chilled down as soon as they come in from the fields.)
New this week are amaranth, euphorbia, new colors of dahlias and lisianthus.
The demand this year is way up--thank you one and all--so please pre-order whenever possible as we have not had a lot of room on the trucks for extra flowers and we hate to disappoint you.


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Fresh Cuts August 3

8/2/2014

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Granddaughters Carlee and Kennedy at the "beach".
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My apologies for not posting last week...it was massive as you all know.  And well, sometimes you just need to stop and smell the roses...or in my case, stop and be with grandchildren.
But the farm waits for no one, there are flowers EVERYWHERE and we have a full list with some new goodies.  We have zinnias in a rainbow of colors, dahlias TDF, ornamental oregano, lisianthus, atriplex and new crops of asclepias (which will be shorter because it is establishing itself), Black Eyed Susans, delphinium and snaps.  The sweet peas continue to amaze, although we are dropping some colors as they are beginning to suffer in the heat.  So please take a look and let us know what we can get for you.

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