Ruby Roots Blooms

06/23/2024

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06/03/2024

Some dance recital bouquets from this weekend! 🩰🌟

05/19/2024

Happy Sunday! The anemone have finally started to bloom!🤞🏻 Hoping they keep blooming despite the hot weather we’ve been having. ☀️Anemone prefer cooler temperatures and tend to stop growing once temps are consistently above 70 degrees. These have been planted out in the garden since March. I’ll take these blooms any chance I can get because they’re so colorful and beautiful!

05/16/2024

I truly appreciate everyone’s support of my small business over Mother’s Day weekend! ❤️🌷 Thank you!

05/12/2024

If you need a last minute wrapped tulip bouquet for a special mom in your life, message me! I have these last few available for porch pick up today. $15 each

Flowers were grown right here in Lomira. 🌷

05/11/2024

I have a few Mother’s Day tulip bouquets left! 🌷Message me if you’d like a wrapped bouquet for $15 or a vase arrangement for $25. Porch pick up in Lomira on Saturday or Sunday.

05/09/2024

Message us today to pre-order your Mother’s Day tulip bouquets before they run out!

Wrapped bouquets of tulips for $15 or a vase arrangement for $25.

05/04/2024

We’re at Dutch Touch Greenhouse & Lawn Services today until 7 pm! Stop out and buy a tulip bouquet, visit the other vendors here and check out what’s growing in the greenhouse!

05/01/2024

A custom bouquet of tulips for someone special.

04/30/2024

Tonight’s tulip harvest! 🌷Message me if you’d like a bouquet of fresh picked tulips! 🌷

These may not look like much now, but that’s because I’ve picked them at a stage that gives YOU the best and longest vase life- before they’ve fully opened.

04/29/2024

The very first Anemone bud of this year! I can’t wait until it blooms! 🤩 I started anemone and ranunculus corms indoors mid-February and planted them outside in mid-March. Ranunculus and anemone prefer cool temperatures and stop growing and blooming when temperatures reach to about 75 degrees. They prefer the cold weather but they cannot survive the cold of our winters here in WI. I cover them with frost cloth in a caterpillar tunnel when temperatures are below 27 degrees. These flowers are a lot of work but the reward for all that work is their beautiful blooms. ☺️

04/26/2024

Some of the seedlings are already trying to bloom in the grow room! Any guesses what this flower is? 🧐

04/19/2024

Morning garden walk and coffee. ❤️ Happy Friday!!

04/17/2024

Have you ever seen a pink daffodil before? This one is called Pink Charm. ✨🌸

04/17/2024

The tulips and narcissus are starting to bloom! Oohh I wish you could smell this bouquet through the internet. The fancy tulips don’t have a scent, but those two stems of narcissus in there smell HEAVENLY! The scent is similar to lilacs.

*Spring bouquets are available now! 💐 Send me a message to get yours today!

04/15/2024

Guess what started blooming this week!!!??!

I’m obsessed with this gorgeous bloom from one of our double tulips! 😍 I had to take a mini bunch of them to the office with me this week to enjoy.

Send me a message if you’d like some tulips too!

04/15/2024

I did more soil block making and seed starting this weekend. 🌱 For those wondering how soil blocks are made, here’s a short video I took. I loved being able to work outside and hear the birds chirping! 🐦‍⬛

04/08/2024

Things are growing good! 🌱💐 (and this is only half of it. 😉)

02/15/2024

These seeds arrived in the mail today! I guess that means they are my Valentine’s Day flowers. 💐

02/07/2024

It may look like I made brownies here, but these are the very first seed starts of the year. 🙌🏻 🌸 This is a method called soil blocking, where you plant your seeds in these tiny compressed blocks of soil. This method allows me to start many seeds at once while only taking up a fraction of the space that standard seed trays would. Most of my flowers were started this way last year. I’d typically fill this entire tray with soil blocks but I only had a few (180) of these late spring/early summer flowers that I needed to start right now. Any guesses as to what seeds I started today? 🌱🌼

02/02/2024

46 days until Spring!!

01/17/2024

The more you know. 🦋

What's in a name?

We have changed the common name of our Lupine – previously sold as “Wild Lupine.” We are clarifying which species we offer:
SUNDIAL LUPINE is Lupinus perennis subsp. perennis. This exact species is historically native and used to be prolific around the eastern perimeter of the U.S. The confusion stems from the fact that other species are often called “Wild Lupine.”

One particularly problematic species is Lupinus polyphyllus, or Western Lupine, which is native to the west coast but has been introduced in gardens across the country.

Because Western Lupine (L. polyphyllus) is a larger, showier plant and spreads rapidly, it has infiltrated the seed market as “Wild Lupine” and incorrectly as “Lupinus perennis.” It has been proven to be very aggressive, especially in the Upper Midwest and Northeast regions. Beyond its ability to spread and overwinter, L. polyphyllus is upsetting the balance of local wildlife in the eastern half of the U.S. – most notably for the federally endangered Karner Blue Butterfly whose only larval host is Sundial Lupine. The Western Lupine is NOT a larval host for this beloved species, despite the marketing push; according to the National Park Service, the foliage is poisonous. Any Karner Blues that mistakenly lay their eggs on this plant have doomed their caterpillars. Sadly, L. polyphyllus readily hybridizes with Sundial Lupine; the resulting plants are also inhospitable.

12/10/2023

It may be winter ❄️ but I’m thinking Spring! I’m patiently waiting for all the tulips to bloom. 🌷 I’ve planted over 1,000 tulip bulbs for spring.

I’ll have subscription spring bouquet orders available soon! 💐

In the meantime, here’s a peek at some of the varieties I’ve planted. 👀

10/11/2023

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10/08/2023

Homecoming corsage and boutonnière. These were fun to make!

09/09/2023

My niece came over and cut some flowers to make her mom a bouquet today. She did a fabulous job creating this arrangement! 🌸❤️

08/27/2023

The flower arrangements I made yesterday for some very special people. ❤️🌸

08/27/2023

The dahlias just keep blooming. ❤️🌸

08/20/2023

Some special order bouquets that went out yesterday.

Flowers are a perfect addition to wedding showers, baby showers and parties. Message me if you’d like to order some for your next event!

08/19/2023

There were a couple of sleepy bees in the garden tonight. 🐝🌼