2020 was an interesting year. Full of craziness and hardship involving a lot of adjustments for Three Blooms. We started the year with plans for our usual sales outlets but quickly had to change as Urban Twigs was closed and meeting people face to face wasn’t an option. So then came along the Self Serve Flower Stand! Urban Twigs was awesome and allowed us to place the stand in their parking lot, which is only 2 miles from the farm.

I always am trying to get a jump on the season by planting earlier and earlier. 2020, as par for the course, decided to make me regret this decision with a late frost on Mothers Day. Thankfully all the crops came through it fine!

All snuggled in for low temps on Mothers Day

The Early Spring Garden with lots of hardy annuals planted. Each year we are getting blooms earlier and earlier. This year we started providing fresh blooms from our fields in April with Tulips, then in May comes ranunculus and anemones. And in June these early hardy annuals bloomed and also some perennial plants started to produce for us.

I was able to cut a short handful of peonies. These plants are still being babied(no hard cutting) until next year. I try to leave as much leaves on the plants to provide energy into developing bigger roots which equals bigger plants and more blooms!

I had a great crop of Ranunculus and Anemones using a low tunnel at the hilltop. I also had an awesome crop of snapdragons! In 2020 we began our very first Flower Subscriptions service!

Spring is also the time to get all the summer annual flowers planted. We started to harvest these flowers in early July.

The season always seems to go into warp speed as July and August hit. It’s truly a blur of picking, weeding, bouquet making and repeat.

2020 ended on a good note for us. We had several new arrivals: A high tunnel, and new puppy Penny.

Decided to go big for 2021 tulip bulbs!!! Order over 6,000 and Penny helped me plant them. We also introduced winter potted amaryllis and paperwhites. Thank you for a great year!