Winter Grown Tulips for Easter! Iowa Cut Flower Farm : Sunshine and Flora

[@crowleyhouseflowerfarm]

Well grown! Its so nice to have blooms for Easter to share with folks!

[@GreenFamily2007]

Congratulations on all your hard work!! The bouquets look stunning!

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thanks Christina. Beautiful bouquets ! 🪻💚🙃

[@patsyden6276]

Great work. These are all so beautiful. Can't wait for mine to come up around the yard. Thanks again.

[@kathystarnes6744]

Beautiful tulips!💛🩷

[@lisalott7646]

Christina the bouquets are beautiful! Tulips are my ❤️

[@GrettaVanMaanen-pj8ql]

Beautiful!

[@ElderandOakFarm]

Beautiful color combo!

[@newt52864]

Didn't know tulips grew after being cut,interesting... tulips are beautiful😶🌷 Happy Easter 🐥

[@glendahill8806]

Congratulations! Very streamlined, very beautiful.

[@person3952]

Lovely colours

[@carolinapalomares9649]

❤

[@jenamann3484]

awesome love the tulips! wish i could give you 100 thumbs up!!

[@SunshineFlora]

Wow, thank you!

[@lindakay8171]

The bouquets are beautiful!! Happy Easter to you and your family!! ✝

[@andreasimpson1018]

They are beautiful! Some of my soil tulips were weirdly short this year too. I will have to consider hydroponic tulips for this coming fall/winter.

[@lavinapoppleton1396]

Wow, they are beautiful. You should be so proud! Lucky customers 💐 As an aside, do you do any composting?

[@SunshineFlora]

Yep! The bulbs I cut off go right to the compost

[@Babushka_Kat]

Beautiful! Re: pricing, are you asking enough considering cost of bulbs and labor? Do not shortchange yourself.

[@SunshineFlora]

I am and also considering my rural area, stem length etc

[@jennifersharp6624]

Gorgeous!!! Can you reuse the bulbs you discarded? If not, is it bc the leaves weren't left on long enough to take in enough light ?

[@SunshineFlora]

No. Tulips are treated as annuals. Because I cut everything off the bulb they won’t have the nutrients to generate growth for next year.

[@Lana-zq8vr]

Which tulip bulbs did you buy for next year?

[@SunshineFlora]

I will probably do a video on it once my order is confirmed.

[@serenababy6358]

Wow! Congrats on selling out! I'm impressed that you have next years tulip quantities already planned out. If I may ask, where do you order your tulip bulbs from? Happy Easter to you and your family.

[@SunshineFlora]

Most this year were ordered from onings / ball colorlink. Leo Berbee has a great selection too. These are both wholesale companies

[@sandychristiansen1749]

The bouquets are lovely. I am just wondering from an economic point, about how many years you think it would take to cover the cost of the course --after covering the cost of the tulip and money it costs to grow them. (My niece would like me to pay for the course for her but it is a lot of upfront expense)

[@SunshineFlora]

I would say it depends on the amount of tulips you grow. But I considered it a great investment because in my zone, without growing winter tulips I would never have had flowers to sell at Valentine’s Day or Easter. Now I have those sales

[@sandychristiansen1749]

@@SunshineFlora Thank you -- that is a valid point and would help her with income in the "off" months

[@janiestrasser]

Do you get prechilled ?

[@SunshineFlora]

For Easter no. Valentine’s Day yes