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Lupine and Iris
These are flowers which do not dry well, we just enjoy them in our gardens.The flowers that we dry are grown in rows within our sixteen acres of fields (see below).
Harvesting Suns
Barbara harvests our hybrid, ornamental Sunflowers.
First Harvest
Barbara and Ms. Lynn picking Feverfew, our first harvest of the season.The two of them picked 1420 bunches of Feverfew in one day ... a new Keuka Flower Farm record!
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Harvesting Anthemis (Marguerite Daisy)Barb, using a Japanese sickle knife, harvests this prettyperennial in the early part of summer. |
Poppies
These are such beautiful flowers, actually my very favorite fresh flower.We grow it for the unusual seed pod which adds a wonderful look to any arrangement.
Lavender
These perennials are just starting to bud out, a few more weeks and we will cut.Does anyone ever get tired of the smell of lavender?
Baby's Breath
One of our babies in a block of our single blossom Baby's Breath (beautiful crop).What is that in her arms?
Can't you smell it?
It has to be lavender.
We spend many hours Hoeing.
A never ending battle: man vs. weed!
Transplanting Strawflower
Ms. Lynn driving the David Brown 885 and Barbara handling the plants (I'm taking the picture).
Transplanting - Up Close
Barb's left hand just 'set' a plug in the ground and is about to receive another from her right hand.My right hand has followed Barb's left hand and is 'setting' a plant (plug) while my left hand is getting ready to pass another plug to my right hand.
Got it? Her left, my right, her right, my left as fast as you can!
| At the end of a long, long day ... |
life here is pretty darn good. |
