Summer Rain Farm

06/02/2026

This time of year is when the perennials really strut their stuff. The lilacs, iris, peonies, and lupins are blooming in wonderful colours, filling the farm with beauty and fragrance. These are the flowers that return year after year, growing bigger and better with each season.
🌿 Lilacs burst into bloom with large clusters of fragrant flowers in shades of purple, pink, and white. Their sweet scent is one of the surest signs that spring has arrived.
🌿 Iris bring elegance to the garden with their intricate blooms and sword-like foliage. Their flowers come in a rainbow of colours and add a touch of drama to early summer bouquets.
🌿 Peonies are treasured for their huge, ruffled blooms, rich fragrance, and romantic charm. They may take a few years to establish, but once they do, they can thrive for decades.
🌿 Lupins produce tall spires packed with colourful blossoms that attract bees and other pollinators. Their cottage-garden charm makes them a favourite in early summer.
🌿 Feverfew offers clouds of tiny white daisy-like flowers that add texture and softness to arrangements. It's one of the hardest-working filler flowers in the cutting garden.
🌿 Daisies bring cheerful simplicity with their bright white petals and sunny yellow centres. They are long-lasting, reliable bloomers that brighten any bouquet.
🌿 Coneflowers (Echinacea) feature striking raised centres surrounded by colourful petals. They are beloved by pollinators and provide weeks of blooms through summer.
🌿 Sedum develops succulent foliage followed by large clusters of star-s-shaped flowers that deepen in colour as the season progresses. It adds texture and interest both fresh and dried.
🌿 Rudbeckia shines with golden-yellow petals surrounding dark centres. Their warm colours capture the feeling of late summer sunshine.
🌿 Salvia sends up spikes of vibrant flowers that are magnets for bees and butterflies. Its vertical shape adds movement and contrast to garden beds and bouquets.
🌿 Liatris produces tall, feathery purple flower spikes that bloom from the top down. It adds height, texture, and a touch of whimsy to summer arrangements.

05/31/2026

As flower farmers, we usually sell all the beautiful flowers and rarely get to enjoy the fruits of our labour ourselves. But I couldn't resist cutting a few fragrant lilacs and using up the last of the tulips from the cooler.

This week's progress on the farm felt worth celebrating! Between all the planting, seeding, and garden expansion, it's nice to pause and enjoy a little reminder of why we do all this work. The scent of lilacs filling the house and a vase full of spring blooms is the perfect reward after a busy week.

Do you ever bring flowers in from your garden, or do they mostly stay outside for everyone else to enjoy? 🌷💜🌿

05/31/2026

Peonies are one of Summer Rain Farm's signature June flowers, arriving just when we need them most. These beautiful perennials require patience, often taking up to three years before they produce an abundance of blooms, but they are well worth the wait.

Available in a stunning range of colours and forms, peonies are prized for their large, lush blossoms filled with layers of delicate petals. Many varieties are wonderfully fragrant, adding both beauty and perfume to our bouquets.

As one of the most sought-after focal flowers, peonies bring elegance, romance, and a touch of early summer magic to every arrangement. 🌸✨

Do you have a favourite peony colour—soft blush pink, bright coral, pure white, or deep burgundy? Tell us in the comments!

05/30/2026

Getting the Hortanova netting up is one of those jobs that's all about timing. Too early, and you're constantly fighting with it while planting underneath. Too late, and it becomes a challenge to work over growing plants—or worse, the wind has already knocked them over.

I think we hit the sweet spot this year! The netting is in place, and almost everything has now been transplanted or direct-seeded into the garden. I still have my sunflower successions to plant, but otherwise the hard work of getting everything in the ground is done.

Now we wait for the magic ingredients: sunshine, warm temperatures, and a little rain. Before long, the garden will be bursting with blooms, and we'll be filling bouquets with all the beautiful flowers we've been working so hard to grow. 🌱🌸☀️

05/30/2026

Just a little update from Summer Rain Farm 🌸

We’ll be taking this weekend off from the flower stand as our peonies and ranunculus are so close to blooming, but not quite ready yet. We’d rather wait a little longer and offer you the very best blooms once they open.

Even though the stand will be quiet for a weekend, the farm definitely isn’t! We’re busy planting, seeding, and getting all of our summer flowers tucked into the garden so they can put on a beautiful show in the weeks ahead.

It’s still a very full season around here, and we’re so thankful for the amazing start we’ve had so far. Thank you for following along and supporting our little farm.

Enjoy your weekend and we’ll see you again soon with fresh flowers! ☀️💐

05/29/2026

Just enjoying some bird watching this morning. I had always wondered if the wasps bothered the birds at the jelly feeders but now I know. It was amazing watching the focus of the oriole as he grabbed the wasp right out of the air. It's like watching a nature show. I just need David Attenborough's voice over.

05/27/2026

Today was all about dahlias! 🌸 We planted out 100 presprouted dahlia plants into the cutting garden… and somehow still had another 100 clumps waiting to go in 😅

So what do flower farmers do in this situation? Make another garden of course! 🌱

Safe to say we may have a slight dahlia obsession over here, but can you blame us? The colours, the shapes, the endless bouquet possibilities… we just LOVE dahlias!

Now to get these beauties growing so we can enjoy armloads of blooms later this summer 💐

Anyone else incapable of saying no to more flowers? 🙋‍♀️

05/27/2026

05/26/2026

Our biggest apple tree is just full of blossoms right now! I'm so happy we got one of our beehives started this past weekend because they are up there pollinating the blooms.

05/25/2026

Garden update from Summer Rain Farm 🌱🌸

We got so much planted out in the garden today and some of our cool flowers are growing by leaps and bounds!

Right now we're in that in-between stage on the farm — our cool spring flowers are finishing up and we're waiting for the warm summer flowers to arrive for bouquets.

Our peonies and ranunculus are getting very close to blooming, but I think we're still a few weeks away yet. The lilacs are absolutely putting on a show this week and the crab apple branches are blossoming beautifully too.

At this point I don't think we'll have bouquets available this weekend unless something changes, but the garden is moving along and there are lots of beautiful blooms on the way! 🌿