Once you decide cut flowers are a part of your life, there are important choices to be made. Most importantly, in my mind, is where do you get them? No one is going to die without cut flowers (although now I would argue that life is greatly diminished without them), but still, there is no arguing, they are not a necessity. Because they are a luxury, I think it is even more important to think about making sustainable choices when buying flowers.

Often, it seems, I begin my updates with the phrase, “it’s been a busy month on the farm.” I guess I still haven’t adjusted to that baseline when growing flowers, at least from March to November. This month, though, it feels particularly true. In the past 4 weeks, I have planted over 450 perennials and woodies, and over 2,500 spring seedlings! That’s a lot of holes to dig. And while it feels like spring now, many of those planting days were cold and windy.