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Sunflower Subscription

I am so excited to announce our subscription service for the 2022 flower season! We have loved selling our fresh cut flowers at the Chandler Farmer’s Market and we are excited to be finding even more ways to bring our flowers to the community. Starting in June you can buy a flower subscription that will ensure that you have bright and cheery sunflowers at your house for five weeks! What Type of Bouquets Will I Receive? These are going to be straight sunflower bunches – maybe we will throw in a spring of something special to add some…

What Sunflowers We Are Growing This Spring

We are deep into spring here in Arizona and could not be happier that we already have buckets full of sunflowers. We started our first trays at the beginning of February and so far we have had wonderful blooms each week in April. We started with about 200 sunflowers a week and bumped it up to 300 in preparation for Mother’s Day. After the success we saw at the Farmer’s Market we started another 100 each week. I think we are at our max for the number of sunflowers we can start right now for our…

Get Your Flowers at the Chandler Farmer’s Market This Spring!

Hello friends! I am so excited to share that we will be selling fresh bouquets at the Chandler Farmer’s Market starting in April! I am so excited for our first flowers to bloom and to share them with our local community. If all goes well we will be starting the market the first Saturday of April – the 2nd. We will have bunches of sunflowers available for sale for first few weeks and then more and more diversity of flower offerings as the spring continues. The market runs from 9am – 1pm on Saturday’s at Dr…

First Plants of 2022

We have our first plants of 2022 in the ground! With the move we had to get things going a bit later than we would have liked to in our growing zone. That said, we have so many days of wonderful warm months ahead that iit is hard to feel too bad. We have lots of seedlings soaking up the light on our indoor grow racks and now our first planting of sunflowers are testing out the new digs in the flower field! We seem to have missed our cool season here, but I am still trying to grow some…

Trader Joe’s Flower Arrangements #1

This last week I went to my favorite place… Trader Joe’s! I know that is likely a regular occurrence for most folks but when the closest one is over an hour away it is a real treat. While I was there stocking up on all the things I noticed that there were so many beautiful bouquets of flowers. People were buying lots of bunches and it was fun to see what everyone was buying. Lots of yellows and bright colors! When you run out of flowers in your yard one of the best substitutes are Trader Joe…