Casa Blanca Flower Farm

08/19/2024

A sea of summer blooms 🌸☀️ can you believe September is around the corner? The daylight is dwindling and the mornings are cool and crisp 🤍

08/18/2024

Thank you all who came to see us today for lisianthus-fest at the !! 🎉 We so appreciate you and your support, and hope you enjoy your locally grown blooms! 🌸

We are taking a break for a bit for family time, but will return with locally grown blooms next month 🤍 💐 For updates when we will be at next please, we send out our market schedule to our email list! Link in profile to sign up.

08/17/2024

Come see us tomorrow at for bunches of lisianthus! Long-lasting and soooo frilly! We’ll have champagne and antique colors available 🤍🌸

08/15/2024

The lisianthus are so good this year! come see us at the this Sunday 8am-1pm, to get them while they are here! We will have lisianthus bunches available! ✨🌸

08/13/2024

It’s going to be a lisianthus-fest at this Sunday’s !! 🎉🌸 We’ll have gorgeous lisianthus available as straight bundles and in our wrapped mixed bouquets, and will have them in their beautiful mason jar arrangements! 🙌

Come by Idlewild Park Sunday 8am-1pm for these stunning, long-lasting blooms! 🤍✨

08/12/2024

First dahlias of the season have arrived and they are the beautiful Bloomquist Pink Parfait, captured last evening at sunset 🌸🌅

08/11/2024

Can it be lisianthus season all year long?! 😍🤩

08/11/2024

The chocolate cosmos have been a surprise favorite this year! 🍫 After sitting for a few months looking pretty tiny, the plants all of a sudden got huge and have been pumping out these long, fragrant stems and they don’t seem to be slowing down! It’s been a daily task to keep up on the harvest. I am hoping they overwinter with some mulch as they are a perennial plant in warmer zones!! 🤞 I have them planted in between young peony plants at the moment and they should do fine there for a couple years until the peonies fill out the space more.

Wish you could smell this handful of chocolate cosmos, they are such a sweet chocolate scent! 🍫🤍

08/11/2024

08/07/2024

We have entered lisianthus season, which looking back at the last two years is always early/mid August for us despite planting at different weeks and different varieties in March. We always plant lisianthus prior to April 1st because they need a cold start to growing for the most successful stem length and blooms. Last year we had a not very good crop due to some fusarium wilt loss and also poor planting space (that dang bed on the south side of the house that nothing can seem to grow well in summer, it’s sooo hot!!). But this years crop is pretty glorious! 🙌

Planting location matters, we have different soil types due to our mix of inground and raised beds, and shady spots due to neighbors trees and structures, so we are constantly learning which spots on our property are best for which crops. The thing is, we don’t want to plant the same crop in the same bed every season, crop rotation is important for disease prevention, so finding that rotation of locations is key, which is a challenge when our bed space is so limited!! It’s a constant shuffle and experiment of what works best.

And we are messing it all up by changing our back beds this fall 😂 Mark has decided he wants to re-do the raised beds with better wood, so we are going to pull all of them and re-orient them and make them a bit more efficient/long-lasting and re-do all the irrigation (fun times!). We were thinking of just maybe skipping raised beds all together and turning the back into in-ground beds, but the back of our property has a TON of rocks (ask me how I know 😂). Like way more than the front for some reason, it’s very strange. It’s like someone that owned this property previously dumped rock and poured soil on top lol. So raised beds really is the best way to grow back there!

Fall will be very busy with that project + planting all the fall bulbs and perennials coming in October! So for now, I am just savoring the slower part of the season and enjoying the summer blooms!! 🌸

08/06/2024

I mean 🤩✨

08/06/2024

Lisianthus are the most romantic flower! What do you think?! ⬇️

08/05/2024

Thank you all so much for coming to see us at the today!! It was great seeing you all and we appreciate your support of our locally grown blooms! We will return Sunday August 14 with more blooms including lisianthus and looks like probably the first dahlias of the season!! 🌸🎉💐

07/31/2024

A new one we are trialing! I think it’s safe to say we’ll be planting more 🤩🤩🤩

07/30/2024

Sometimes I have to forgo harvesting flowers in the early mornings because they will have sleeping bees tucked away inside the blooms 🥹🐝 this is very common to find on sunflowers, cosmos (particularly chocolate cosmos 🍫), and now roses! I will let them 🐝 and harvest after they have woken up and left. Sometimes the timing doesn’t work out, and I end up not being able to harvest the flowers before they blow open, but leaving another bed space for the bees in the garden is ok by me! 🌸🤍

07/28/2024

The ruffly lovely lisianthus are almost here! ✨ It’s looking like a couple more weeks until they are ready for harvest! 🤩

We will have these available at in August!! 🌸 We’ll announce when they will be available to our email list, sign up if you are interested in learning more! Link in Profile.

07/27/2024

This was all planted within the last 9 months! It’s going to be even more lush in the next few months ones the dahlias here pop up. Stay tuned!

07/26/2024

Custom bouquet for a birthday! 🎉 We offer custom bouquets for porch pickup and loooove making these special ones for you!

07/25/2024

beautiful zinnias are trickling in now, they are really lovely pastel shades and white large blooms to boot! Are you growing zinnias this year? ⬇️🌸

07/24/2024

The ornamental grasses have arrived in full force! They add such a great texture in bouquets. Everyone’s favorite frosted explosion grass, and various millets! These come with a warning if you’d like to plant these in your gardens, they are quite invasive in the garden and spread everywhere. You will never not have them! I am trying to not let so many goto seed this year to get them under control a bit 😂

07/23/2024

Can you believe this is one stem? Our fancy roses are growing along beautifully and we are so looking forward to being able to share them next year! Do you like garden roses? ⬇️

07/20/2024

We’ll have summery bouquets with sunnies, white marigolds, fluffy scabiosa, everyone’s favorite frosted explosion grass! and lots more blooms tomorrow at with !! She has gorgeous early blooming lisianthus she is bringing!

Come early to beat the heat! Market starts at 8am, we’ll be in the shaded, tree-lined bakery loop!! 💐

07/18/2024

Brb while I go order more echinacea 😂🌸 But seriously… these are amazing! Loving the juicy colors 💛🧡💜

07/17/2024

After a couple weeks break, we are back at this Sunday’s with ! We’ll have lovely local blooms available! It will be a very warm day, so come early and beat the heat! Market starts at 8am Sunday July 21! 🌸☀️

07/16/2024

We’ll have beautiful, creamy white marigolds in our market bouquets availabile at this weekend’s July 21! 💛

07/15/2024

So thankful for the rain. It’s been, what, since May since it’s rained in Reno? Hope everyone enjoyed the rain!! 🌧️ Our flowers sure did!

07/14/2024

Dara, or chocolate lace, is in the carrot family actually! She reseeds VERY well, too well even, so once you plant her, you will never not have her… everywhere. But it’s ok, because she is so lovely and adds the perfect airy texture to the garden and the vase! Pollinators also adore these blooms, which is always a big win when selecting flower varieties to plant 🐝✨

07/11/2024

Just a few of the beautiful florist roses we have planted this spring, and more next spring! We are excited to offer locally grown stems of these very special varieties of roses in 2025 ✨🤍

07/11/2024

Obsessed with fluffy focal scoops! 🤩🌸