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I grow the spring blooming bulbs, Allium aflatunense and its sister, Allium aflatunense ‘Purple Sensation’ in my cutting gardens. Blooming in mid-May for me, they bring some early color and interest along with the late tulips. If not cut during their colorful blooming stage, they will make an interesting cut flower later, when the florets have turned into green seed pods. The foilage starts to decline as soon as it begins to bloom, so plant these where the dying foliage can be hidden by other plants.
Growing information:
Hardy zones 4 - 9
Height - 24 to 30 inches
Bloom time - late spring
Prefers sun.
For the longest vase life, cut when the first few florets are opening.
I wanted to see what I could come up with for a bouquet using rhubarb seed heads as an unusual point of interest. In this wacky bouquet I also used tulips, bleeding heart, dame’s rocket, iris, allium, yellow baptisia, and lilac. Oh, and a wingy piece of asparagus so the rhubarb wouldn’t feel all alone.
After being featured in the Customer Spotlight with OnlineLabels.com for our product labeling, we have been contacted by many small businesses asking us to share how we have achieved the look of ‘professional’ labels.
When I was researching printers, I found the Canon Pixma iP4300 to be highly rated and reasonably priced, less than $100.00. It prints in resolutions of up to 9600 x 2400 dpi, printing in microscopic picoliters for exceptional detail. It also has five ink tanks, which helps keep the cost down as you only have to replace individual ink tanks when they run out, and offers borderless printing, which allows me to print labels right to the edge.
It took me some time experimenting with the settings to get my labels crisp and sharp, and this is what I have found works the best for the white glossy labels, and the clear matte labels that we get from OnlineLabels. These settings will NOT work for clear glossy labels, and I do not know about the plain white non-gloss labels.
When printing labels with the Canon Pixma iP4300 printer:
Under Main Setting Tab, for Media Type choose Photo Paper Pro
For Printer Quality choose Custom, then click Set, in the box that opens up click Diffusion and slide the number bar to #1, then click Okay to save setting.
For Color Intensity I choose Manual, then click Set, under Brightness I choose Dark in the drop down box, then Okay to save the setting. Normal or Manual setting will work also, I prefer to have the most colorful label I can print.
On Effects Setting Tab, I check Image Optimizer for sharpest printing results.
For borderless printing, click the Page Set Up Tab, in Page Layout check the Borderless Printing box, then under Amount of Extension, slide the bar all the way to the right.
In the new June/July issue of Country Woman, we share about our family’s enterprises; farming, flowers, and fragrant bath products. We know the word is getting out, as we have been receiving calls from folks wanting to tour our cut flower gardens after reading about us. You’ll see this photo (smaller though) in Country Woman!
A few years ago, Julie, my daughter, and Elise, my granddaughter (then 4 years old) were cutting flowers. In the back of the house the bleeding heart was blooming, and when Elise saw it she said, “Oh Julie, will you pick me some of those ‘heart beats’?”
The old fashioned Bleeding Heart graced gardens years ago, and is still popular today. It will grow as large as a small shrub if given the right location, and the unique heart flowers that hang in a row delight both young and old, especially four-year-old little girls!
Growing information:
Hardy zones 3 - 8
Bloom time - late spring
Height - 28 inches tall, can grow the same wide
Prefers full shade to some shade.
Cut when one or two hearts are almost full size to use as a cut flower. Flowers continue to grow and spread out in the vase.
Have your children or grandchildren given plants or flowers a catchy new name? Please share it to help everyone smile!
In the last Hobby Farms issue I picked up, there was an article on food foraging, wildings that are edible. What really caught my interest was the mention of rhubarb flower seed heads, it suggested frying them. No other directions were shared, so I decided to be creative and try it for myself.
I snapped them into pieces, just like broccoli florets, and added a dab of olive oil and a dab of butter. They had a tart, pungent smell as they fried, lost their pretty color, and turned soggy pretty quick.
The first bite I tried a piece plain, and wow, what a zing! It tasted like hot, mushy, tart rhubarb! The second bite I salted it, and that gave it a salty, mushy, tart rhubarb taste. The third bite I tried it with some sugar, and that’s when I decided there’s a reason why it’s not common knowledge that rhubarb seed heads are edible!
But they look so cool that I’m thinking I might start adding them to flower arrangements! Do you eat something ‘wild’ that most people don’t know is edible?
Each bouquet will consist of approximately 20 fresh cut stems in a standard vase. Tax and delivery not included. Local delivery only, available for $5.00 extra per delivery. Pick up or delivery dates are flexible and will be arranged with buyer. For more information call Cheryl at 320-286-5384.
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