Greetings!

Finally, a sunny week. There’s rain in the forecast over the weekend but we’re taking advantage of dry weather while we’ve got it. We’ve got a fair amount of planting to knock out in the coming weeks, including heirloom mums, late successions of zinnias, cosmos, and scabiosa, and a very belated ginger planting.

It’s been a hot week, and it takes time for our bodies to acclimate to the heat, especially when the heat comes on suddenly after a cool stretch. With summers getting hotter, we’re trying to do a better job of tending to our bodies’ needs as we adapt to summer temperatures. Maryland recently implemented new workplace heat stress standards, which is good for workers everywhere and will help us guide our decision-making in the heat of the summer. It’s important to take heat exposure seriously, and something we’ve learned the hard way is that it’s better to slow down and take breaks than power through the heat and find yourself sick at the end of the day. You can accomplish a lot more if your body feels good!

We’re at the point in the season during which we’ve got a bit of a lull in the focal flower supply. When June hits, we always see a lull in large, showy flowers for a bit as ranunculus and peonies wind down. It’s too hot for those gorgeous spring show-offs! Scoop scabiosa, strawflower, and cosmos are beginning to come on, and we use them as focals in a pinch. As we wait for crops like rudbeckia, dahlias, and sunflowers, we’re swimming in line flowers like snapdragons, baptisia, delphinium, and soon, larkspur, and we still have plenty of airy spring delights such as nigella, agrostemma, and bachelors buttons.

*Baptisia and the long-awaited solar panels! They’re not hooked up yet, but construction is complete.*

Sunday Market

We’re back at the Baltimore Farmers’ Market this Sunday, June 8th,, from 7:00-12:00.

The build your own bouquet bar returns this week! Some of the blooms you can expect to see in our build your own bar on Sunday are bachelors buttons, nigella, foxglove, snapdragons, and the season’s last baptisia.

We’ll also have bouquets and bunches of snapdragons, peonies, foxglove, baptisia, and veronica—and maybe more!

Thanks for reading, and, as always, we appreciate your steadfast support.

Wishing you all the best,
Amelia, Elisa, and the Two Boots Crew

Heating Up

Sunday Market