Happy 4th of July weekend!

This weekend is the 4th of July weekend.
We are looking forward to going to the Fireworks that the Fort of Vancouver puts out.
Last years was the first time in my life time of living here they did not have it for the lack of money. This year they will require you to pay to get in....which before they ask nothing...and then ask for donations of money.
They say it is the biggest show this side of the Mississippi. If you ever have the chance to go...it is an outstanding show. Just remember even though its hot during the day....you better bring a blanket...it gets really cold at 10:00 at night.
Mean While Back @ The Farm

We are very excited to be asked to take our lilies into Anka gallery in downtown Portland. This is a wonderful invitation to showcase our lilies.
We took them in last night and Thursday will be the opening for their show. If your wondering what the flower pictured is...Its Loretto. This is still blooming in our yard at the farm today as I write this.
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Monday

Today we are highlighting the works of Scott Parry. Scott most recently had his art work in a showing at Anka Gallery in down town Portland.
Scott's work is a wonderful mix of abstracted and sense of humor.
This picture was taken in front of some of his work he had hanging in the gallery. Scott is the gentleman on the right....He is surrounded by is wonderful family..Emma daughter...His loving Wife..Katie...and his supportive dad..Kenn.
We are so proud of him!
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Sunday Morning

Good Morning
I hope you all have your coffee and reading the Sunday paper on the back deck.
It looks as if our summer had finally arrived. You can always tell with us for we have the sunburnt necks and the farmer's tan on the arms.
We had a very successful day at farmer's market. The lily's are just now starting to bloom and boy do they look great.
The one I have pictured here is Pandora's Box. It is one of our best selling Day lily. We take our own pictures for the catalog and the website because we find that a lot of the other lily suppliers colorize their pictures so you are not getting a true idea of what the flower's will look like. It sure makes the flower's look great when they do that...but its not what your really getting. I do love to take my own pictures...
I better get to my day here on the farm...We are having a BBQ tonight with this great weather.
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Friday

Good Morning
We have been very busy harvesting our lily's this year. Our grow bin's are just busting at the seams with
our summer blooms. We are always amazed at how beautiful the blooms are. Each day we go up and check the bins .We find a new one that has bloomed. We feel like little kids at Christmas each time a new color opens up.
We have a garden center we supply our lilies to in McMinnville. He really likes the variety we bring him. He tells us once the lilies start blooming he can't keep them on the shelf.
We bring him the exotic colors...not the box store colors you can find anywhere.
If your wondering what the meaning of box stores is... they are like your Walmart, Fred Meyers, Home depot.
We will be loading the truck and trailer with lilies today so we will be ready for farmer's market.
We get so many question's about how to grow lilies. They are really very easy.
If you have every grown a tulip or daffodil you can grow a lily.
The Day lily is tuber...much like a iris, but not as invasive. The day lily stays in more of clump with the roots. The other lilies...oreinpets, asiatic,oriental and tiger lilies all are a bulb. They will reproduce making what they call a bulblet. This is just a small bulb that will give you another stock next year. You can dig them and and move them in the early spring if you like..or leave them to grow a nice clump of wonderful color.
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June 2010

Good Morning
Well let me get you caught up on what we have been doing since your last visit.
We had a real good selling season for the lily's here on the farm and thru the website.
Many people don't realize that we can ship day lily's year round. We do ship them with some soil and trim them back which cause's no problem for them.
They will not bloom this year if you order them thru the website during the summer, but will do great next summer for you.
Now we are taking our selling season to farmer's market in Hillsboro here in Oregon.
The lily's are blooming later then expected this year from the rain and lack of sun.
Going into farmer's market is a lot of work. On Saturday we rise at 5:00am to get there
by 6:00. we have to get unloaded, we like to take a good variety so that mean we can unload about 100 or more pots of our lily's..set up, we take our tent and racks to set the lily's on..and then be ready by 8:00, when they ring a bell and the official day of selling begins. Then we all hang out until 1:30, they ring another bell and we pack up all the lily's which takes us about an hour and head back to the farm.
We love hearing the compliments on how we have so many unusual and unique lily variety's.
The double bloomer in the picture above is named..Distant Drum this one is new to us this year and I'm very excited to see this bloom.
We have added bird feeders to our items we are selling. The feeder's are made from cedar and the trim is used from the tree's right here on our farm.
We are very excited about this new item and hope to really get this new product off the ground.
We have a couple of them up here on the farm...and I just can't keep them full , they hold up to
8 lb of seed, and the way they are built not much seed hits the ground.
We have a sunny day outside today so I better get to my chores.
Mean while back @ the Farm