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Specialty Cut Flowers
Growing at Bunny Love Flower Farm
I'm Jen, and Bunny Love is my flower farm.
Bunny Love Flower Farm started in 2020 on about 1/8th of an acre of my property in Cochecton, New York with an unheated high tunnel and a few rows of zinnias and sunflowers. I wanted to supply an affordable, environmentally positive and sustainable option for fresh flowers to a beloved friend/bookkeeping client's shop. Today I am utilizing organic, no-till practices to grow seasonal blooms outdoors, in the high tunnel and in my basement "tulip lab" for wholesale and retail markets for ten months of the year.
Winter Forced Tulips
From late December through April, fancy tulips are growing in the basement "tulip lab." Tulips are my absolute favorite flowers and such a welcome burst of color during the cold gray winter.
May and June
Starting in May, Italian Ranunculus and Anemones begin blooming in the unheated high tunnel, followed quickly by Snapdragons, Stock, larkspur, and other overwintered cool season flowers. Field grown tulips and peonies are usually the first outdoor flowers to bloom.
July
Thousands of sunflowers fill the outdoor beds along with zinnias, celosias and other heat loving annuals. Perennial phlox, rudbeckia, yarrow and other flowers that have overwintered in their own low tunnel start blooming, while lisianthus fill up the hoop house.
August through October
Finally, the long awaited Dahlias join fancy sunflowers, celosias and amaranths in market bouquets. Flowers keep on blooming until our first hard frost sometime in late October.
Late October through December
I tuck the overwintering flowers in for their long cold sleep in the high tunnel, dig up, divide and store away the dahlias, get the tulip bulbs crated up and ready for forcing, and then take a deep breath before it's time to start the next growing season.
