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Flowers
A nice gallery of the flowers we’ve been growing out on the farm.
Pink Bee Balm. As the name would imply, bees love this flower.
This is a fancy variety of maroon and yellow Marigold.
Baby Zinnias!
A robust, pink Zinnia
An orange Zinnia
Pleurisy Root, also known as Butterfly Weed. This beautiful flower is a variety of Milkweed, the one and only Monarch Habitat
These multicolored hairy majesties are called Coxcomb.
A pink Echinacea flower.
A yellow Echinacea whose petals haven’t opened yet!
This is Holly Hock, grown by a member of the community garden.
Classic red-orange Marigolds
This pink pom-pom is the flower of the Common Milkweed plant. Bees and Butterflies can’t get enough!
Close up of the unique Bachelor’s Button
Bachelor’s Button is a hardy perennial flower that is one of our first to bloom and survives well past the first frost!
An early White Chrysanthemum, or mum.
A nice Titan Sunflower. Every year we have plenty of these, and many self-seeded into our rows this year. We’re leaving them around for good luck, and to beautify the farm!