Zinnias are in Bloom!

Note to self - June 16th - First Real Zinnia Bouquet Picked for the season. As you can tell, this blog is making for a great gardening journal! We have grown every zinnia and sunflower from seed, so its an overwhelming feeling - finally getting to see our harvest for the first time. It is a relief too - After thumbing through the wedding magazines, and not seeing much attention given to the field grown flowers - I was almost afraid that our farm grown flowers wouldn't look as exciting as those imported roses or lilly's. Boy was I wrong!

Just love the color and texture. Glad Judi thought of the mason jar idea with some raffia bow. It is just a perfect theme for the -Oct. farm wedding we are planning!

I am amazed at how textbook the sunflowers are. Definetly not the tall gangly ones I grew as a kid.

Was harvesting a bundle of the happy blossoms and told dumplin' "Hey these sunflowers look like the ones at the store!" he quickly replied with- "well where do you think the ones at the store come from?!"

I think I can actually believe now that oneday soon they will be coming - from our farm...
Needless to say, I am impressed with our first efforts -

The excitement has been a good motivator to keep at it. Last weekend was spent starting a whole new batch (couple hundred!)- so we can keep fresh plants in succession.
I am growing more varieties and most are solid colors now, instead of the mix.

Kitty on the job

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