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Floral design studio 💯 percent farm grown Specialty cut flowers. Wedding florals and venue.

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Its time! The season we all wait for! Eucalyptus! Fresh cut, glorious scent to fill your house

Just $20 cash at our farmstand snags your big bunch! by @hummingbirdfarm

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Dahlia season! The dahlias are the best we have ever had this year! Healthy, prolific, gorgeous, bug and disease free.

Why is this? Well like any farming it is a combination of our experience and practices and the weather. We had a long cool spring and this gave them a great start that is paying off now….

We have about 300 plants and we are pulling many buckets of blooms out of this patch. So many in fact that we are doing lots of dahlia only mixed market bouquets for the first time ever!

So if you love dahlias, you had best run down to @kootenaycoop in Nelson and snag one before the season ends! by @hummingbirdfarm

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Zinnia season is in full swing! The annual fields are popping and we are stuffing loads of them into our market bouquets and the barn for dried bouquets.

Zinnia are very ‘dirty blooms’ and tend to turn your vase water nasty. A teaspoon of household bleach is very helpful to keep the water and help the blooms last longer in the vase. Fresh water on day 3 is also very helpful for the longest lasting blooms!

Enjoy the rainbow! by @hummingbirdfarm

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These beautiful perennial flowers sure are a hit! Don't delay on ordering your ranunculus corms, they'll sell out soon.

Grown by Hummingbird Farm in West Kootenay, these GE/GMO-free, ecologically grown beauties are sure to please.

Find them at @bcecoseedcoop in our links.

Pre-order now for delivery in September.

BC-grown seed for BC growers. Do you know where your seed comes from?

#bcecoseedcoop #ranunculus #locallygrown #seeds #gardening by @hummingbirdfarm

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Alex and I did a really big planting push today! We were behind due to either too cold nights or to hot days…. Hopefully we will get another 3k in by the end of the week! by @hummingbirdfarm

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We cut the first 60 peonies on mothers day and have been cutting hard in the peony house since then. I expect we will have 1,000 cuts or more total from the house, holding 200 plants.

The rest of the peonies in the field, more then 700 plants are coming along nicely and will likely start to bloom in the next few weeks. We hope to not have much of a gap in supply :-) The field peonies will be filling bouquets typically until the end of June or early July! by @hummingbirdfarm

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Its time!!!!! If you are getting hitched this summer and want the most unique, gorgeous local blooms for your big day, we got you!

From simple back yard elopements to the big event with loads of guest and big dreams we can do it all!

I have a decade of experience helping your dreams become reality :-) let’s get started, dates booking up so its time to snag yours! by @hummingbirdfarm

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Sunflowers are in our top 5 focus flowers for good reason…. You love them! Every year we start getting questions about when the sunflowers will be here! The answer fyi is Mid July - Thanksgiving they are a huge part of our bouquets.

We grow 3-4 successive plantings and every seed is individually direct sow lovingly by Alex :-) more than 5,000 in total!

We almost exclusively grow hybrid types bred specifically for the floral trade. These varieties are pollen free (so they don’t make a mess on your kitchen table!) they are long lasting and are nice size for bouquets.

Every year I get a few brides keen on them as the focus bloom for weddings and of course we are always game for that!

I personally love the green eye varieties the most, but the fluffy teddy type doubles are also great! Loads of people love the dark chocolate ones as well. We are trying three new varieties this year along with our favourites. Always keen to find a new favourite.

What colours are your favourite? by @hummingbirdfarm

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One of our ‘top 5’ focus blooms we grow thousands of stems a year in lots of gorgeous colours!

These beautiful blooms are easy to grow but do require very specific method. We grow most of them in hoop houses for best quality blooms in 3 or 4 different successions. We cut the first blooms in late April and the last in July.

They a a critical one for wedding work but as they also have amazingly long (10 days) vase life they are also a common on in our market bouquets as well!

This year we are adding three new colours to the mix and we are excited to see what these ones look like!

I am particularly fond of the dark pink and orange ones, but they are all great 😊 by @hummingbirdfarm

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For the love of peonies! We love them so much in fact that they have a dedicated house.

We did a big (for us!) planting of 400 peonies in the fall of 2021 and in 2024 Brad built a caterpillar tunnel to cover 200 of these. They take 3 years to get to full production. However after that they can last decades! As you can likely imagine this was a pretty substantial investment for the future at the time :-)

The goal was to have peonies for mothers day. In 2025 we came close, with the first flowering the week after mother day! We have made some changes and are crossing our fingers that this year we will :-) come see us mother’s day weekend for our flower festival to see if we succeed.

We grow lots in the field as well and now have more than 800 plants, in 9 varieties of assorted styles and colours.

Red charm is my favourite as it is so huge fully and the deepest rich red and smells amazing. Not all peonies smell much actually. Coral charm is hot on its heels for the amazing way it changes colour from a pretty bright pink to a pale coral as it opens.

We dry loads of them as well so you can find them in our dried bouquets often :-).

Do you love them as much as we do? by @hummingbirdfarm

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Phlox is a beautiful bouquet filler that adds lovely texture. It is a long lived easy to grow perennial flower and it comes in lots of colours!

We find that the different varieties also have different flowering times so they naturally create diversity at different times in the garden.

Long lasting in the vase but I also use lots for events as they have such a romantic vibe…. what is better for a wedding?

One of my favourite varieties is called sherbet and it is such a cool combination of pink and green blooms. by @hummingbirdfarm

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Another of our favourite fillers is scabiosa! The adorable little blooms are so cute and feel to me like little butterflies floating in bouquets.

I am particularly fond of the variety called ‘black knight’. Dark burgundy with little flecks of white that seams to go with everything.

They are very long lasting in the vase which is key for us of course. They are easy to grow from seed and we plant two small successions as they are pretty darn prolific for us! Without very regular cutting the patch will quickly get out of hand 🤪 by @hummingbirdfarm

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