Shop the fresh list Explore our newsletter archive: hydrangea colors, flowering branches, forest textures, Christmas specialties, and the family behind Oregon Coastal Flowers.
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Newsletter dated January 6, 2020
Explore the farm’s archived seven-foot-plus wild forsythia and practical notes on early-forced quince color for Chinese New Year branch programs.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated November 21, 2019
Explore red winterberry in tips, medium and tall grades, with an archived family photograph from the farm’s early flocked-branch operation.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated October 29, 2019
Explore the farm’s 2019 Christmas palette of crystallized and flocked branches, winterberry, holly, cone-bearing evergreens and noble fir forms.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated October 28, 2019
Look back at the farm’s 2019 haunted corn maze, its Serenity Club fundraising arrangement and the autumn flowers and timber-frame barn featured that season.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated October 24, 2019
Explore a 2019 farm update on the Kilchis River pumpkin patch and corn maze, family activities, autumn crops and the locally sourced timber-frame barn.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated October 3, 2019
Explore fall viburnum berries with orange foliage, porcelain vine, snowberries and antique hydrangeas in a historical October farm assortment.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated September 26, 2019
Explore porcelain vine as an autumn floral material, with archived thirty-to-thirty-six-inch cuts, developing berries and seasonal pairing ideas.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated September 16, 2019
Compare cleaned and uncleaned dried lunaria in a September 2019 newsletter, with notes on preparation time and early-fall companion crops.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated September 9, 2019
Explore green, purple and red Pistachio hydrangea as it matures toward antique colors, with an archived Ultimook Race and fall-harvest farm update.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated August 29, 2019
Limelight hydrangeas change as they mature: the farm’s August 2019 note followed covered-grown heads from fresh green through blush and cream to late-fall brown.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated August 19, 2019
The August 2019 hop feature described natural eighteen-foot garlands on rope, with a weather-dependent season running from early August into early October.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated August 19, 2019
This August 2019 feature explained that antique hydrangeas begin developing in August and grow firmer and richer in color as the season progresses.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated July 29, 2019
Green-fruited blueberry and blackberry stems were the focus of this July 2019 newsletter, offering fruit texture before the berries reached their mature color.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated July 21, 2019
Crocosmia Lucifer, also called montbretia in the archive, provided brilliant red summer flowers before the later harvest shifted to pods.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated July 7, 2019
A July 2019 field note described blue hydrangeas from the farm’s six-acre Hydrangea Ranch and a summer-to-fall wholesale shipping season.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated June 27, 2019
Oregon Pride’s vivid purple flowers and dark stems anchored this June 2019 feature from the Hydrangea Ranch’s summer cut-flower crop.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated June 20, 2019
White lacecap hydrangeas came into production in early summer in this June 2019 feature, with both bunches and branching forms shown in the newsletter.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated June 13, 2019
Ninebark moves through bud, flower, seed and foliage stages. This June 2019 note also introduced mock orange cut as its buds began to swell.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated June 3, 2019
Green-fruited blueberry branches offered a natural alternative to flower-only texture in this June 2019 specialty cut-flower update.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated May 23, 2019
White and blush peonies can look much darker in a closed bud. This May 2019 grower note explains why the open flower can differ from the arriving stem.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated May 13, 2019
Covered production helped bring part of the farm’s peony crop into flower for Mother’s Day in this May 2019 account of spring harvest planning.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated May 6, 2019
Spider wood roots were presented as individually shaped driftwood specimens for floral work with air plants or orchids, as well as terrarium displays.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated April 25, 2019
Pink snowball viburnum, identified as Mary Milton in this April 2019 feature, brought peach-pink flower clusters to the farm’s mid-spring cut-flower program.
Read the story ↗Newsletter dated April 15, 2019
Flowering dogwood was a mid-spring specialty in this April 2019 update, with mostly pink and some greenish branches emerging from the harvest.
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