FARM JOURNAL

Mid-summer, I woke up to a flower farmer's nightmare! Our cooler had stopped working in the night and the flowers were overheating and quickly wilting. I checked to see if the breaker had tripped, causing it to turn off unexpectedly. I found that it had tripped, but when I turned it on again, flames shot from the cooler motor! The bottom of the cooler had started spewing fire! That is definitely what you call BROKEN. This was a major problem for us. We were down our largest c

One of our favorite ways to sell our Linden Lane flowers is by the bucket. On harvesting mornings, we always notice how beautiful the...

Plus Famous Linden Lane Flower Farm English Scone Recipe! It is a long-standing Linden Lane tradition to hold Harvesting Mornings once...

Poppies are one of my favorite flowers to have around the farm all year long! While we don't grow the blossoms to sell (more on that...

Peonies are one of our first big crops of the season! They are one of my favorites because they are soooo big and soooo lush. They also...

Planting our whole field of flowers in the spring isn't everyone's favorite task, but it is satisfying to complete! With help from lots...

Delphinium is a cottage-garden favorite for many people. It's tall spikes of flowers are reminiscent of snapdragon and larkspur, but the...

Each year, Rudbeckia flowers are some of our first and last to be blooming, and there is so much to love about them. They are cold hardy...

This month we arranged flowers for the Margene's Modest Wedding Dress Reveal--light and airy white arrangements for the fashion runway....

Working with our own farm-fresh flowers is certainly the norm, but sometimes we just want to play with flowers again! We said yes to a...

One of the classes we held on our farm this year was a centerpiece arranging class, and it was a successful and memorable event! Everyone...

What could be better than being surrounded by beautiful flowers, excellent food, and wonderful people?! That was what Brunch & Blossoms...

There is so much to love about Sweet William. The colors span the entire pink and red spectrum, the clustered flower heads are special,...

Lilac season is short but sweet. Perhaps the brevity of the season makes us cherish it all the more. We have several Lilac bushes on our...

We are just wrapping up tulip season over here, and it was a beauty! For a few short weeks, along with our friends, we enjoyed armfuls of...

Daffodils are the best! They are some of the first blossoms of the season, they last fairly long, and they have got to be one of the most...

Let there be life! March and April are an active time here at Linden Lane Flower Farm. We start all our beautiful flowers from seed right...

Sympathy arrangements are some of our favorites to design. We love the idea of celebrating a life well-lived. Two of the sympathy...

At the end of the season, Emily and I hosted a flower arranging class, right here at Linden Lane Farm, and it was completely delightful....

In many parts of the U.S. and the world, June is the wedding season, but in our community August is the heaviest wedding season. And...