Field and Wild

Field and Wild 🌸 Specialty flowers grown in our yard April - Oct
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A grocery store bouquet was cut three to ten days ago somewhere in South America or the Netherlands. Bunched by machine....
05/24/2026

A grocery store bouquet was cut three to ten days ago somewhere in South America or the Netherlands. Bunched by machine. Dipped in preservative. Flown, trucked, warehoused, distributed. Three to five different companies took a cut along the way.

A bouquet from us was cut yesterday morning by hand in Quincy. Conditioned in cool water for twelve hours. Bunched by me. Held in water until pickup.

The price difference is mostly labor. Most of the labor is the part you don’t see.

That’s not a sales pitch. That’s the math.

05/21/2026

These have been in the basement at Scotch Pond. Some I dug up from our own field last November. Others came from Bumble Roots Farm up in Maine. All dormant. All waiting.

First year we grew dahlias I threw out half the tubers thinking they were rotted. They weren’t. Dahlias look dead until they don’t. The eyes don’t show up until you wake them up with warm soil.

Today they go back in the ground in Quincy. The first ones open mid-July. That’s twelve weeks of waiting from here.

Nothing about flowers is fast.

These are the peony buds in the lower bed at Scotch Pond. About the size of a marble right now.Peonies are a fall planti...
05/19/2026

These are the peony buds in the lower bed at Scotch Pond. About the size of a marble right now.

Peonies are a fall planting. Roots in the ground in October. Cold winter. Slow wake in April. Foliage in May. Buds whenever they’re ready.

Each shrub gives about ten stems when it goes. The window is short. That’s the whole peony season.

We have three varieties in the beds. Sarah Bernhardt soft pink, Duchess white, Black Beauty deep red.

No prediction on when they open. They open when they open.

Most of the field at Scotch Pond is empty right now. There’s more in this photo than it looks.Bottom: a tray of seedling...
05/12/2026

Most of the field at Scotch Pond is empty right now. There’s more in this photo than it looks.

Bottom: a tray of seedlings sitting on the mulch path. That’s the invisible work. They go in the ground next week.

Middle: a bed we just prepped for the dahlias. Empty until the soil hits 60 degrees.

Right side: a peony shrub inside chicken wire. The buds are just starting to swell. Two more weeks and they open.

Last frost in Quincy lands somewhere between May 10 and 15. Some years it’s earlier. Some years a freak cold night in mid-May takes everything that went out too soon. So we wait.

A flower farm in May is mostly patience.

The tulip bed runs along the back of the property in Quincy. A few things you didn’t see in the bouquet photos:The chick...
05/10/2026

The tulip bed runs along the back of the property in Quincy. A few things you didn’t see in the bouquet photos:

The chicken wire. Rabbit would eat every one of these in a single night if we didn’t fence them in.

The variety mix. There were about fifteen different tulips in this one bed. Peony types, fringed, parrot, doubles. We grew varieties no store in the area carries because they’re too fragile to ship.

The window. Three weeks. That was the whole thing. They started opening in late April. They’re done now. We won’t see them again until next April.

That’s why we cut them by hand, into buckets of cool water. There’s no margin to waste a stem in a window that short.

Next up is the long wait. Dahlias go in the ground next week. First blooms mid-July.

a lot of people ask how this works. so here’s the whole thing.right now, in early season, we run on pre-orders. We annou...
05/05/2026

a lot of people ask how this works. so here’s the whole thing.

right now, in early season, we run on pre-orders. We announce a drop on instagram (and on the email list) when something’s ready to cut. you order online. you pick them up at scotch pond on the pick up

In July, when dahlias start, subscriptions open. weekly drops on the same day every week, all the way through october. less guessing. less fomo. you just know flowers are coming.

right now you can:
— follow + turn on stories so you don’t miss a drop
— join the email list for early access (heads up before instagram)
— wait for july and grab a subscription spot

shipped flowers travel for days. ours travel 200 feet.

comment BLOOM and i’ll dm you the email list link.

tulip-only bouquets. limited drop.pickup tomorrow, may 2, after 10am at scotch pond place.order via the link in bio. com...
05/01/2026

tulip-only bouquets. limited drop.

pickup tomorrow, may 2, after 10am at scotch pond place.

order via the link in bio. comment or dm and i’ll send it over.

must be paid before pickup. no holds.

everything you’ll see in the field in july started here and under lights.200 dahlias potted up in the greenhouse. each o...
04/30/2026

everything you’ll see in the field in july started here and under lights.

200 dahlias potted up in the greenhouse. each one labeled by hand because by july you can’t tell Crème de Casia from spartacus from cornel bronze just by looking. zinnias popping up in the seedling tray.

Celosia, nasturtiums, viola all moving along somewhere.

most not transplanted outside until the end of may at the earliest. dahlias wait until mid-may when the soil hits 60°F.

people ask why farm flowers cost more than grocery store. this is part of the answer.

zone 6 seed-starting guide is on the site. link in bio.

tulips bridge the gap.they come up while everything else is still under lights. they hold the field for about three week...
04/28/2026

tulips bridge the gap.

they come up while everything else is still under lights. they hold the field for about three weeks. then they’re done for the year.

this is their moment. take it while it’s here.

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