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Field and Wild 🌸 Specialty flowers grown in our yard April - Oct
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a friend of ours posted about the stand, and she saw it and came by that same day.word of mouth is the whole thing for u...
09/01/2026

a friend of ours posted about the stand, and she saw it and came by that same day.

word of mouth is the whole thing for us. every time someone shares a photo, tells a friend, or just mentions the stand to somebody, we notice, and we’re grateful for it.

If you know someone who’d love flowers, share with them. scotch pond place, quincy.

cut too many again. happens every time with these.second season, and cosmos are still the one flower I just love. So whi...
08/25/2026

cut too many again. happens every time with these.

second season, and cosmos are still the one flower I just love. So whimsical, airy and they know how to GROW.

The stand is open!! Bouquets are out. wrapped, priced, and waiting under the pine tree. venmo / scan the qr to pay, same...
08/23/2026

The stand is open!!

Bouquets are out. wrapped, priced, and waiting under the pine tree. venmo / scan the qr to pay, same as always.

large bouquets, $35. first come, first served.

scotch pond place, quincy. send this to someone who needs flowers today.

08/17/2026

Hi everyone! To make it easier to know when the stand is stocked with flowers, I started a WhatsApp group another way (besides email and Instagram) to let you know when fresh flowers are ready.

Link to group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Fso2O3H5u233e6nNQtGC6u

Please join if you'd like to be updated that way on what is happening at the stand.

Thank you all for the support!

there’s a cut flower garden on an old granite quarry in quincy.the hillside was cut for granite in the 1800s, the same i...
08/16/2026

there’s a cut flower garden on an old granite quarry in quincy.

the hillside was cut for granite in the 1800s, the same industry that put quincy stone into buildings all over new england. when it closed it was left with bare rock and thin soil, and it sat wild for close to a century.

now there are dahlias and zinnias on it. second season, one bed at a time.

scotch pond place. send this to someone who’s lived here their whole life.

a few people have asked how this works, so here it is.we announce when preorders open or subscriptions go out. you order...
08/09/2026

a few people have asked how this works, so here it is.

we announce when preorders open or subscriptions go out. you order. we cut what’s ready, wrap it, and set it on the stand at the announced time, usually saturdays. you come get it.

you don’t pick the flowers. we cut what the beds actually have that week, which is why no two of these come out the same.

scotch pond place, quincy. announcements go up here.

A grocery store bouquet was cut three to ten days ago somewhere in South America or the Netherlands. Bunched by machine....
05/24/2026

A grocery store bouquet was cut three to ten days ago somewhere in South America or the Netherlands. Bunched by machine. Dipped in preservative. Flown, trucked, warehoused, distributed. Three to five different companies took a cut along the way.

A bouquet from us was cut yesterday morning by hand in Quincy. Conditioned in cool water for twelve hours. Bunched by me. Held in water until pickup.

The price difference is mostly labor. Most of the labor is the part you don’t see.

That’s not a sales pitch. That’s the math.

05/21/2026

These have been in the basement at Scotch Pond. Some I dug up from our own field last November. Others came from Bumble Roots Farm up in Maine. All dormant. All waiting.

First year we grew dahlias I threw out half the tubers thinking they were rotted. They weren’t. Dahlias look dead until they don’t. The eyes don’t show up until you wake them up with warm soil.

Today they go back in the ground in Quincy. The first ones open mid-July. That’s twelve weeks of waiting from here.

Nothing about flowers is fast.

These are the peony buds in the lower bed at Scotch Pond. About the size of a marble right now.Peonies are a fall planti...
05/19/2026

These are the peony buds in the lower bed at Scotch Pond. About the size of a marble right now.

Peonies are a fall planting. Roots in the ground in October. Cold winter. Slow wake in April. Foliage in May. Buds whenever they’re ready.

Each shrub gives about ten stems when it goes. The window is short. That’s the whole peony season.

We have three varieties in the beds. Sarah Bernhardt soft pink, Duchess white, Black Beauty deep red.

No prediction on when they open. They open when they open.

Most of the field at Scotch Pond is empty right now. There’s more in this photo than it looks.Bottom: a tray of seedling...
05/12/2026

Most of the field at Scotch Pond is empty right now. There’s more in this photo than it looks.

Bottom: a tray of seedlings sitting on the mulch path. That’s the invisible work. They go in the ground next week.

Middle: a bed we just prepped for the dahlias. Empty until the soil hits 60 degrees.

Right side: a peony shrub inside chicken wire. The buds are just starting to swell. Two more weeks and they open.

Last frost in Quincy lands somewhere between May 10 and 15. Some years it’s earlier. Some years a freak cold night in mid-May takes everything that went out too soon. So we wait.

A flower farm in May is mostly patience.

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