The Farmer Bailey team is proud to welcome Sunnie Kim-Tiernan as our guest blog author today! Sunnie is the owner of Fae Flower Farm, an expert in growing Chocolate Cosmos, and a Farmer Bailey customer.
Though you can start Chocolate Cosmos from seed, Sunnie achieves a superior, more uniform bloom with plugs of 'New Choco', a vegetatively propagated variety selected for its cut flower quality.
Sunnie is also the freshly minted publisher of FIELD NOTES, a new quarterly journal dedicated to growing flowers. To celebrate the debut, Sunnie is sharing a free, comprehensive Choco Cosmo culture guide. Tap the link to receive your copy!
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Field Notes from Fae Flower Farm
By Sunnie Kim-Tiernan
FIELD NOTES, our brand new quarterly journal, is ready to be discovered!
the chocolate cosmo issue
What you’ll find inside the pages:
- A comprehensive guide to growing chocolate cosmos as cut flowers: from sourcing and variety selection to proper harvest stage and packaging for delivery.
- Our answer to the oft-heard question: Can you dig up and save chocolate cosmo tubers? (Our answer: yes and no.)
chocolate cherries
- A conversation with Elizabeth Patterson of Ailish Floral on the art of perceiving color and how she uses chocolate cosmos to deepen and expand all the shades of red in a color palette.
- A discussion with Zoie Brown of Efflorescent Studio on her creative process and creating a dramatic backdrop with black callas and chocolate cosmos.
flowers and fiber
- A foray into fiber: our hunt for the perfect chocolate-colored yarn and making the most of the off-season.
- A look at the delightful intersection between flowers and fiber on a diversified farm with Jennifer Kouvant of Six Dutchess Farm.
- A photo diary of life on Fae Flower Farm this past autumn.