Backyard Flower Farm LLC

01/21/2025

Soil blocking. Have you tried it yet?😃 This 3/4" block set can make 20 small blocks at once.

It's such a space saver. I can start 240 plants in one tray that usually holds 72 plugs or 12 of your regular size 6 packs. 🌱

Check out The Gardener's Workshop website. Lisa has all the essentials to get you started on your soil blocking journey. She also has 2 invaluable books about cool flowers and cut flower growing.🌻🌼🌸

01/16/2025

Lisianthus are the first seeds we start in early January. This year we're planting out purples, green, apricots, salmon, deep rose, lavender, yellow, and white.

They take an incredibly long time to grow and bloom around late July early August.

The vase life is an incredible 10-14 days and each stem could have up to 4 fully ruffled flowers similar to a rose.

If you'd like to grow some this year check out Johnny's Selected Seeds website. They have such pretty varieties and there are just a couple more weeks to get those seeds started.

01/07/2025

Finishing up a project.✅ With major seed starting and beginning to presprout over 3,000 ranunculus and anemones next week, I thought I would take a day or two to be creative with card making before I'm completely consumed with flowers for the next 10 months.

I often get asked what I do during the off season when I don't have flowers. I would love to say that while I am a stay at home mom, I still find time to be creative and make cards, scrapbook, and make quilts.😁 All things I love to do.

But, I've honestly been so entranced with crop planning research and learning the ins and outs on how to run a profitable small business that I haven't taken the time to work on any other projects the last couple of months.

And that's ok because I love flowers💐, making list, planning, and seeing my dreams become a reality.

Flower farming or gardening at any scale is really rewarding and enjoyable. Don't get me wrong, it is a ton of work. And when I tell you I'll be out cutting flowers don't be surprised if you don't see me for 6 hrs.😂

If you ever want to keep me company and learn how to cut flowers during the season let me know.😉

12/26/2024

Merry Christmas from the Kiegers ! 🎄🎁💐
Thanks for being part of our flower family.

12/23/2024

ATTN: Winners! Congrats to Bea Jones, Hesse, Tami Hanson Thurmer, Kim Taylor Kolodge, and Bekka Sagdalen.

You 5 will receive a free spring bouquet as soon as the tulips pop eta early May.

Thank you for participating in our fun flower banter and supporting our small business. Send us a message on this page so we can contact you when the flowers are ready.

So excited for spring,

Gina

Do me a favor and post a pic of one of your favorite bouquets that you purchased from us this year.

Tag a friend too and I'll enter you into a drawing for a free 2025 Spring bouquet.

As the year is coming to an end, I just wanted to say Thank you for always being so supportive in our second season.

Don't forget to join us for season 3 in 2025. Subscriptions are available @ www.backyardflowerfarmllc.com

12/22/2024

✅Tons of planning going on over here. I'm a spreadsheet girl and I'm deep into seed starting charts right now.

💃It's really like a dance on who gets started when, how many get planted, and in what conditions.

👩‍🌾 Then who can get moved outside to make more room for the new ones that need to get started indoors.

🌼So worth it though for an entire season of continuous flowers.

Join us @ www.backyardflowerfarmllc.com
For subscriptions and more info.

Ps. Katie Daisy (creator of my new planner) is one of my favorite artists and has an Etsy shop. All her prints are so beautiful and whimsical.

They make me happy😃

12/17/2024

💐Don't forget to join us for the 2025 season. Subscriptions are available if you're local to the White Bear lake, MN area.

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🌷Share this post and share some joy with all these amazing flower pics.

🥰 2024 season was such a great experience. I really enjoyed meeting you all and gushing about the flowers with you.🌼

12/12/2024

Everyone loves flowers. The best way to deal with pest pressure is to attract a lot of beneficial insects. Bio diversity is a great way to attract all the good bugs.😃

12/09/2024

The Facebook algorithm isn't sharing my posts with everyone.😳 Sign up with your email for really important notifications on our website.

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😉 Don't worry I'll only send out 4 or 5 a year letting you know when flowers are available.

Thank you so much for all of your support during our second season.🥰 Year three is gearing up for double the amount of production and a longer season. 🌷🌻

If you know any flower lovers that live locally to White Bear lake, MN and surrounding areas, please share this post and help spread the joy of flowers.

If you like or 💗 a post it helps the Algorithm to show the post to the people who follow and actually want to see them.

Thank you,

Gina

12/07/2024

350 Degrees Bakery is now carrying our locally grown dried flower bouquets. 🥰 Head over to Mahtomedi, MN and check out this incredibly beautiful bakery.

👩‍🍳Elouise's attention to detail is astounding not only with her baked goods, but in the decor and specialty merchandise on display.

🧁 I'd recommend the triple chocolate cupcake, but you'll have to try them all.😍

11/30/2024

11/26/2024

It's amazing how vibrant the colors are even after being dried. 🌈 Great flowers to dry: celosia, statice, strawflower, and gomphrena. Have you tried to dry any other varieties?

11/24/2024

Send me a message if you are interested in purchasing $20 dried flower bouquets. They will be ready for pick up tomorrow Sunday Nov 24th. 🥰 They make a cute hostess gift for a Thanksgiving Day get together too.

11/19/2024

Crop planning is super important to have consistent coordinating blooms throughout the whole season.✅

I've been spending weeks researching flower varieties, their growing preferences, and bloom times.

Next step is figuring out how I can get 15,000+ plants to fit into 5,000 square feet of growing space.🤣

Definitely going to take advantage of succession planting.😉

11/18/2024

The Early Black Friday Gift with a purchase has arrived.
✂️These handy little flower snips are perfect to store in a kitchen drawer and grab when you trim those bouquet flower stems and change the water about every 3 days. Your flowers will thank you🌼

Sign up for a flower subscription at www.backyardflowerfarmllc.com

And receive a free flowers snip cutter while supplies last.

Thank you! 🥰
Gina

11/13/2024

Here's the tulip line up for spring!🌷 Lots of different color combos for build your own bouquets. If you know of a venue that would love to have a spring flower bar pop up, let me know.

11/10/2024

We have 2 winners of a free spring bouquet for helping me name 2 new sizes of bouquets that we will offer spring 2025.

Wendy Doyle for Abundant Joy

Danielle Hamilton for "The Luxe"

The website is updated with new options and pictures. So please check it out.

www.backyardflowerfarmllc.com