Foliage & forest
Historical seasonal newsletter
Black Walnut Chuppah and a Snowberry Harvest
Explore a historical chuppah newsletter with a substantial snowberry harvest, honey-bee pollination, hydrangeas and custom alder poles.
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Foliage & forest
Historical seasonal newsletter
Premium Sheet Moss from the Oregon Rainforest
Read archived notes on thick sheet moss packed in layers, storm-collected forest droppings and the farm’s late-season branch assortment.
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Yellow Dogwood and Mossy Apple Branches
Explore a historical yellow-dogwood page whose crop notes focus on dry mossy apple branches, lichen and autumn forest materials.
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Preseason Red Dogwood with Hand-Stripped Leaves
Discover the farm’s historical hand-stripped red dogwood grades and the transition from natural autumn branches into made-to-order Christmas materials.
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Red Curly Willow and Orange Chinese Lanterns
Explore an archived red-curly-willow page featuring orange Chinese lanterns, their fresh-to-dried use and historical leaf-stripping options.
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Green Curly Willow and Partner-Farm Viburnum
Read an archived green-curly-willow newsletter featuring Brandywine, Cardinal Candy and Michael Dodge viburnum and the logistics of partner-farm sourcing.
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Contorted Chestnut: Young Walking-Stick Branches
Explore young contorted chestnut branches in a historical autumn program, with notes on developing shape, honey-bee pollination and eighteen-foot hops.
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Natural Chuppahs and Boxes of Forest Droppings
Explore a natural-chuppah newsletter describing mixed forest-floor materials, an early Ultimook Race and a ten-foot wedding structure.
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Hot Chocolate Calla Lilies with Dark Stems
Explore the farm’s archived Hot Chocolate calla lilies, deep purplish-black flowers with dark stems, and the bridal and premium cut grades then offered.
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Historical seasonal newsletter
Dried Lunaria and Silver-Dollar Seed Pods
Explore farm-grown dried lunaria, the money plant’s papery pods and the inner layer revealed by cleaning, in a historical late-summer newsletter.
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Historical seasonal newsletter
Birch Bark Tubes and Antique Hydrangea Packing
Explore a birch-bark-tube archive whose main article explains antique hydrangeas, large flower heads and the farm’s mixed summer crop program.
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Organic Wedding Arches and Eighteen-Foot Hop Garlands
Explore an organic-arch archive featuring eighteen-foot hop garlands, their August–September use for weddings and the farm’s natural structure offering.
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Emerald Mossy Branches and a Mixed Flower Box
Explore an emerald-mossy-branch archive with a historical mixed box of hydrangeas, callas and gloriosa, plus a glimpse of the Tillamook County Fair.
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Montbretia Pods and a Summer Farm Newsletter
Explore montbretia pods in a historical summer assortment of gloriosa, hydrangeas, callas and Chinese lanterns, with bees and running-camp photographs.
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Hydrangeas
Historical seasonal newsletter
Blue Hydrangeas and Bees Pollinating Snowberries
Explore a historical blue-hydrangea newsletter featuring the farm’s rows, Italian honey bees pollinating snowberries and a broader summer specialty palette.
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Fresh Mood Moss and a Summer of Purple Hydrangeas
Explore a fresh-mood-moss archive with purple hydrangeas, green Chinese lanterns, thornless blackberries and unusual Tillamook Bay driftwood.
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Locally Grown Callas and Hydrangeas Shaded by Alder
Explore the farm’s archived calla harvest, alder-shaded hydrangeas and a winding montbretia row, with family and barn-owl photographs.
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Thornless Blackberries and Hummingbirds in Montbretia
Explore thornless blackberry cuts in a historical summer newsletter, with hummingbirds feeding at montbretia and a river-habitat account from the farm.
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Hydrangeas
Historical seasonal newsletter
Double Hydrangeas and a Family-Farmed Summer Palette
Explore a double-hydrangea archive combining locally grown callas, several hydrangea colors, gloriosa and family photographs from the Oregon Coast farm.
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Fresh Montbretia and the People Behind Moss Picking
Explore a fresh-montbretia newsletter featuring lavender-to-white hydrangeas and a historical introduction to longtime moss pickers Lee Smith and Fred.
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Fresh White, Red and Pink Peonies Near Season’s End
Explore an archived peony harvest nearing its end, including white Bridal Dream flowers harvested more open and a family wildlife photograph from Alaska.
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Festiva Maxima and the Farm’s White Peony Program
Explore a Festiva Maxima archive with yellow and white peonies, a Bridal Dream photograph and a historical Oregon state track championship update.
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Flowering branches
Historical seasonal newsletter
Blooming Cherry and the Arrival of Popcorn Viburnum
Explore a blooming-cherry archive showing popcorn viburnum before snowballs, flowering dogwood, three-foot spirea and an upcoming peony harvest.
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Flowering branches
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Fresh Lilac and Mother’s Day Peony Prebooking
Explore a lilac-and-dogwood newsletter documenting peony prebooking, a possible late-April start and the spring sequence into viburnum and iris.
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