Flower Types
Growing With The Seasons
We love working with the seasons. The rhythm of the seasons is grounding and provides comfort and stability. We find that plants grow best when we work with Mother Nature rather than trying to control her. With the exception of our winter tulips, our flowers are all field grown. Our flowers bloom at the time that's right for them, bringing you the freshest, fullest, and most seasonal blooms. Every year is a little different thanks to our unpredictable Colorado weather, but it keeps us learning and trying new things! We grow a wide variety of flowers from spring through fall so that we always have something in bloom. We have added in a lot of perennials over the years -- things like hydrangea, echinacea, yarrow, delphinium, hellebores, and peonies -- and these do a great job of filling in the gaps between our annual flowers. We may not have the exact flower at the exact time you want it, but we promise we will always have something beautiful and special!
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Below is a highlight of the flowers we can typically expect by season. We change things up a bit every year, so if you don't see something you're looking for, just reach out and ask!
Early Spring
Our season starts in April with a dazzling variety of potted pansies, fragrant hyacinths and narcissus, and one of our biggest crops, spring tulips! We grow over 10,000 tulip bulbs that come into bloom in April & May, just in time for Mother's Day. We grow over a hundred varieties of tulips from elegant singles to stunning lush double and peony-style tulips to fun fringed and parrot tulips. We also have lots of perennials and shrubs in bloom at this time - Hellebores, alliums, lilacs, and other flowering shrubs. Then come the anemones, and everyone's favorite, the ranunculus.
Late Spring
Starting in late May and into June, the peonies arrive. We have over 250 plants in our peony field and perennial beds that produce armful after armful of beautiful, fragrant, giant peonies in a rainbow of colors. Peony season is short, so get them while you can!
June is also when the delphinium start to bloom. These giant beauties in their stunning shades of blue are so captivating that we added a whole new row of them in 2024!
Early Summer
Summer starts off with a beautiful rainbow of snapdragons blooming in the flower field, followed by other favorites like cosmos, feverfew, nigella, scabiosa, and Bells of Ireland. Colorful echinacea, yarrow, and giant hydrangea blooms also start to reveal themselves in the perennial beds along with fragrant varieties of the pollinators' favorite, hyssop.
Late Summer
Late summer is the peak of the season, when the flower field is bursting with color and we're harvesting multiple times a day just to keep up. August is when the dahlias come, a highlight of the year that we all look forward to. We plant close to 2000 dahlias in over 100 varieties, so it's a beautiful spectacle when they all start to bloom! Another favorite this time of year is our eucalyptus. We grow several varieties that we start from seed in January and harvest in abundance late summer and into fall. Its fragrance, texture, and beautiful bluish color is undeniably gorgeous. Late summer also brings beautiful varieties of lisianthus, zinnias, cosmos, strawflower, sunflowers, and textural elements including celosia, amaranth, gomprena, hibiscus, and basil.
Fall
Fall brings a lot of incredible textures, mostly from our perennial beds - sedum, grasses, coneflowers, and more. Our summer season comes to an abrupt end with the arrival of first frost, typically early October, and this is when we turn to dried flowers.
Winter
We typically close up the farm for a period in October-November, after our first frost, while we clean up the farm, dig dahlia tubers, and plant bulbs for the following spring. As we approach the holidays, we open back up with potted amaryllis, paperwhites, dried flowers, wreaths, and more. Throughout winter, we force thousands of tulips in our root cellar and basement. Those blooms start arriving late January, providing us with blooms almost year-round! We also plan for a big tulip harvest for Valentine's Day!
