Season Extension

Look what my friend Cameron of Natural Medium Design did with WWFF grown tulips!

It has been a labor of love to grow February tulips in quantity, and I would call the experiment a partial success. I will go into the process in more detail another time for anyone who wants to try. For now, let’s just say it entailed empty mineral buckets from my sisters cattle operation and a lot of messes in the house.

Earlier this week Scott and I had the opportunity to visit a large flower warehouse. It was fascinating and inspirational.

I believe we can never have too many flowers, but there aren’t a lot of local flowers this time of year. In order to have flowers in the winter months we turn to flowers grown in warmer climates like the beautiful roses from Ecuador pictured below.

One Walla Walla Flower Farm goal is to stretch the local season as long as possible so we can invite Walla Walla Valley grown flowers to our parties more often. I am proud to work alongside growers from across the country to flip the flower narrative from the current 80% of US cut flowers imported from other countries.