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U-Pick flower farm Brad & Lori Warner farm
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05/28/2026

This is a yellow peony flower that is blooming for us now. I don't remember the name. Did you know that peony roots can sell for thousands of dollars. Maybe next year we can have a peony season.

05/27/2026

The Lupine is putting on a show! We do have some color with different plants blooming now. We've for the most part finished planting on the 16th. Need to succession plant some bulbs and fill in for some perennials that died over winter. The stone barn floor is almost pieced together. I'm really looking forward to getting the shingles on the roof to add color to the barn, it should really pop. For me it's parttime working with the flowers and some work on the barn.

05/13/2026

I've talked about helping fellow flower people with their questions. Some people follow us on FB and some even visit our farm. I don't want to mislead flower farms about serving alcohol on our farm. We have a license from the Nebraska Liquor Commission to serve. Having someone cater alcohol is another option. If you have any questions, just contact me and I tell you what I think I know. Have a good summer!

05/11/2026

Happy Mother's Day! It's the one day that I would like to be open here at VVF. It's also prime planting time for our summer u-pick.

This summer we would like for you to consider visiting VVF 3 times this summer. This gives you a chance to see the flowers at different times and with different people. Every month will look different; flowers come and go. Some flowers don't bloom until late summer. You will get 2 summer visits and one visit the last weekend of the season. You will pay as you go, first Quart is $25 the next is $20 and the last is $15.

If you got gypped on Mother's Day, I'm willing to take $10 for the last bouquet. No questions asked.

We've upgraded our drink selection in the tasting garden. We'll have 8-10 wines by the glass. Wines from France, Italy, California and others. Chardonnay, Moscato and others, we'll offer Mimosas, Cosmo and Expresso. Still working on a beer.

We're looking forward to seeing you this summer!

05/02/2026

May, go time he at VVF. We have about 115 flats left to plant, tubers, other bulbs and transplant 300 mums. Planting is getting harder as we get older. After planting the flower plug, the work of protecting the plant from the weather starts. This is really the unknown for us. How much time will it take to protect our plants. This process can add so much time for us.

Things will be different this year because of the time I need to work on the barn project. Monday and Tuesday we'll be doing the honor system on the north field. Friday and Saturday we'll be fully open to all fields and the tasting garden. Closed Wednesday and Thursday for maintenance work on the flower beds. Sunday is the only question on how we open, honor or fully open. We can always be open for groups by appointment. If I can get things done on the barn we can change how we are open. I'll post times later.

Another thing we are working on is looking at more drink choices. Single serve products allow us to have more selection. I even looked into getting a music license that would allow us to have live music.

Good luck everyone with your gardens.

04/18/2026

I got a few more things started on the barn. This is the main floor and the west wall. I had to replace some siding and added this old carriage door that I got from Sioux Falls. I've pulled off of the barn project and we started planting flowers this week. What a wild weather week for these flowers. The flowers have experience 85 to 23 degrees and high winds. The weather always adds more work for us. Lori is busy potting up plants and sowing seeds in the greenhouse. Next week we'll be back planting flowers. We hope everyone's flowers made it through the cold weather last night.

04/12/2026

Appreciate the recognition!! Thanks Visit Nebraska!

03/17/2026

It's very busy here at VVF. Lori is finishing up with soil block method of planting seeds. She'll plant the remaining seeds in April in the greenhouse. She has a couple new flowers for this year. It's too early to know how they will turn out.
I've been busy with the barn this last month. For the next 30 days I'll be working part-time on the barn and also taking care of the flower seedlings in the greenhouse. I hope to get the main floor and the end wall doors installed. The last half of April and all of May, I'll have very little time to work on the barn. I hope in June I can get back to shingle the roof.
Later this week the air temperature will be too warm in the greenhouse for the flowers and we'll put them outside.
Last year we had half dozen people and one person this year visit our farm and talked with us about growing flowers. We are glad to help. It's not easy. I can think of half dozen or more that are no longer growing or doing something different since we started growing.

02/01/2026

With the cold weather tonight, I have time for a post. Lori has seeds planted for our 7th year this summer. She'll plant more very soon. I (Brad) was wrong on his barn theory. I don't think it's a Sears barn. After many days of power washing, I was able to find some stickers on the rafters. I had to ask for help from a Facebook group and found out that it's a RILCO (Rock Island Lumber Co.) barn. RILCO is from Alberta Lea, MN. Also found Cherny and Watson Lumber Albion, NE. With this information my guess that the barn was built probably after WW2. I did find people's initials and dated "48".
From the picture you can see 10 plus support posts, I think there was more, I tore down some before this picture. I only wanted to have 4 in the updated barn. I had to add bigger support beams/timbers. When I saw the new timbers in place, it really stated to give the barn a timber look that I wasn't even trying to do. Now I'm trying to figure where to add more timbers to the barn. I'll build an open timber style stairs to the hay loft.
I doesn't look like I got a lot done on the barn in January. The 300lb timbers 9' in the air by myself is a slow job. I did spend 2 weeks in Iowa finishing my daughter's basement. It was time for the basement to be finished. I've had Market Place road trips picking up materials for the barn. Trips to Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Fremont, St. Paul, Broken Bow, Geneva, Louisville and others.
Probably my biggest question is how I finish the west wall in the hayloft? Do I add a door or just windows? The 3 other doors on the lower level need to be figured out also. It will depend on what materials I find.
Sometimes patience can help. I was going to build the stairs before I was going to add the timbers. I lucked out this time, got busy in Iowa, and the stairs had to wait. I'm sure that the people who know me are laughing at me about patience.
Before we know it, spring will be here!

01/01/2026

Thank you everyone for 2025! It turned out to be an amazing year for us! It was so much more then growing flowers for us. Lori and the girls visited Keukenhof Gardens in The Netherlands along with Kyra, our exchange student (2011). This fall we were given a once in a lifetime chance to move this barn to our farm. We're looking forward to seeing what 2026 holds for VVF.

Barn update: The most common questions I here is "are you going to make an event venue with the barn?" I don't see us doing that right now. Lori is trying to spend more time with grandkids and adding an event venue won't help that. The barn for now will just be a big garden structure. We would rather grow flowers then have an event venue. As we get older and cut back on the flowers, maybe we look at event venue.

My goals on the barn is to make it look old and don't do anything stupid. No overhead doors, poured cement floor or anything that would make it look out of place. My biggest debate in my head is adding more light in the hayloft. Can I add dormers and not hurt the look of the roof. I want to make this barn even more special so the future owners will keep the barn up.

Yes that's Lori helping me prime and paint the barn. She also helped me pour footings, she ran the chute on the cement truck. 2025 marked 40 years since or first date. I tried to help her with her chair when being seated. She turned around stared at me and told me that this is her chair and get my own. I haven't tried to pull out her chair again.

We wish everyone a happy and healthy new year! My motto is "Your life is now." A song by John Mellancamp.

12/11/2025

The barn will be moved tomorrow morning around 9:30-9:45. The only thing that needs to happen is for the truck to warm up. The barn will be going through the field. It would be best to come to our farm and watch it. I wouldn't park along the highway because of safety concerns. If you would like to sign our witness book just look us up when you get here. Just be aware when you park in our pasture that the grass is brown and dead and can catch fire if you leave your car running.

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2671 State Highway 91
Albion, NE
68620

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10am - 5pm

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https://valleyviewflowers.com/

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