Our flower stand is open for the season!
- Shea Flower Farm
- Jul 1, 2025
- 1 min read
My husband built this flower cart for me so that I can sell flowers at the end of our driveway. He finished it just in time because with all the rain and the heat, the flowers have burst into bloom! Beautiful, lacey orlaya is coming on strong as is larkspur, snapdragons, bachelor's buttons, sea holly, calendula, feverfew and annual phlox. Even cosmos have started to produce a few flowers.
The canterbury bells (campanula) were astounding. Some stems were over four feet high. There are some in the bouquets on the flower cart now. I had to cut them shorter; they were making the vases tip over. Deer love canterbury bells. I watched one come into my yard yesterday. He was so excited by the prospect of a canterbury bells salad, he was licking his lips as he walked down the hundred foot long row past all the other flowers. He didn't even notice me standing there. "Bad deer! Don't eat that!" He looked up surprised, then annoyed; he looked longing at the bells and then slowly walked away. He checked over his shoulder twice to make sure I was serious about defending my bells. The irrigation came on at 3am, and the spray kept him away. I got up at dawn and harvested the rest of the canterbury bells. Flower farmer 1; hungry deer 0.
Then there were the sunflowers. I now have a lot of headless sunflowers. Bunnies 72; flower farmer 0. You can't win them all.
