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| lilac scabiosa-flowered zinnia, Zinderella variety |
Last week I finished up the flower seed order and I'm excited about growing some new kinds of flowers for the Pick Your Own section this year. I tracked down seed for a super cool type of zinnia that I'd seen around some of the flower blogs I follow. They're called scabiosa-flowered zinnias, but to me they look like a cross between a gerber daisy and a cornflower. I got two colors to try this year: peach and lilac. That's the lilac one in the picture.
Along with those fluffy looking zinnas, I got seed for a pastel mix called Art Deco, a wild and spikey orange one called Inca, and some small-flowered ones in pink and apricot.
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| Echinacea, Cheyenne Spirit variety |
I found a gorgeous mix of echinacea flowers in dramatic sunset colors and some soft and delicate cosmos in lots of shades of pink. I think they'll pair well with the ethereal cleomes that we had
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| Cosmos |
last year, the fuzzy, bright blue ageratum, and the new filler flower I found, matricaria. The matricaria has lots of little puffballs of white with yellow/green centers--sounds weird but looks cool.
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| ageratum |
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| matricaria |
There are still Extra Flower Shares available for this season--more flowers for more weeks! Last season Extra Flower sharers got hundreds of extra stems and had flowers on their kitchen tables for months and months. Email me if you're interested! I'll leave you with a little extra eye candy while we dream about warm summer evenings picking flowers...
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| cleome |
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| nigella, my favorite! |
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| a rainbow of snapdragons |
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| another new zinnia variety, Orange Profusion |
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| SUNFLOWERS!! |
