Now Blooming: A Garden Mix of Tulips and Fresh Daffodils

The fields are awake. After a long Minnesota winter of planning, soil work, and waiting, our tulips and daffodils are blooming, and we are cutting fresh stems every morning. If you have been waiting for the season to start, it is here.

This year we planted a true garden mix. Not a single variety in neat color blocks, but dozens of types interplanted across our beds — the kind of mix you would find in an old, well-loved cottage garden where someone added a new favorite every year and never bothered to separate them. The result, at harvest, is a bunch that surprises you.

What a Garden Mix Means

When you order a bunch this spring, you are getting a hand-picked selection from across our fields rather than a uniform stack of one variety. Every bunch is a little different. That is the point.

What might be in yours:

• Single tulips — the classic shape most people picture, in a wide range of colors from soft cream and blush to deep wine and near-black.
• Double tulips — fuller, peony-like blooms with layered petals. These are the ones people usually mistake for peonies in photos.
• Parrot tulips — ruffled, twisted petals with feathered edges and bold streaks of color. The most dramatic shape we grow.
• Fringed tulips — crystalline, lace-like edges along each petal. Subtle in a photo, striking in person.
• Lily-flowering tulips — long, elegant pointed petals that arch outward as they open. The most graceful shape in the field.
• Triumph and Darwin hybrids — the workhorses, with strong stems and a long vase life. These are what give every bunch its structure.

We cut and sort each bunch by hand. You will get a mix of shapes, sizes, and colors — never a single variety, never a single shade. Some bunches lean warm, some lean cool, some come in moody and dark, some bright and cheerful. We try to make each one feel like a complete arrangement on its own.

Daffodils Are In

Alongside the tulips, our daffodils are blooming. Cheerful yellow trumpets, soft white petals with peach centers, miniature varieties with multiple blooms per stem. They are the first real announcement of spring, and they are good for several days in a vase if you give them their own water (more on that in a moment).

If you are interested in daffodils for an event, a wholesale order, or just a special bunch, the easiest path is to reach out directly. They are a shorter window than tulips — a few weeks, not a few months — so we work with customers individually to match what is in the field that week.

One Care Note on Daffodils

Daffodils release a sap from their cut stems that can shorten the vase life of other flowers, including tulips. If you arrange them together, the trick is simple: put your daffodils alone in water for the first six to eight hours after cutting, then rinse the stems and arrange them with your tulips. After that initial soak, the sap is no longer an issue. We mention it because most people do not know it, and it is the difference between a bouquet that lasts a week and one that wilts in three days.

How to Order This Spring

Our standard tulip bunches are the same three sizes you know:

• Classic — 25 stems, $40. The right size for a kitchen counter or bedside table.
• Grand — 50 stems, $70. Our most popular bunch. Enough to fill a generous vase or split into two smaller arrangements.
• Statement — 100 stems, $120. The centerpiece option. Beautiful for a dinner party, a gift, or just a serious moment of color in your home.

All bunches now ship as garden mixes by default, drawing from whatever is at peak that morning. If you have a strong preference — say, all warm tones, or no doubles, or only the dramatic parrots — leave a note at checkout and we will do our best.

Why Spring on a Local Farm Looks Like This

If you have only ever bought tulips at a grocery store, the garden-mix idea might sound chaotic. Grocery store tulips are bred for uniformity. They are the same height, the same color, the same shape, packed ten to a sleeve, flown in from the Netherlands or Colombia, and warehoused for days before they reach you. Predictable, but flat.

A working flower farm has a different rhythm. We plant for variety because variety is what tulips actually do. Hundreds of cultivars exist, each blooming at slightly different times across a six-to-eight week window. By interplanting many varieties together, we get color in the field continuously, instead of one big peak followed by an empty bed. It is better for the soil, better for the pollinators showing up in early spring, and honestly more interesting to look at.

It also means the bunch you receive in late April looks meaningfully different from the bunch you receive in mid-May. Early-season tulips lean toward the classic singles. Mid-season brings the parrots and the doubles. Late season is when the lily-flowering and the most unusual cultivars come in. If you order more than once across the season, you will see the field change.

How We Grow These

The same way we grow everything: no synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or chemical fertilizers, on cover-cropped and composted soil. Tulips are an annual planting for us, so the beds get a full cycle of cover crop and compost between seasons. The result is stems that hold up — strong cell walls, deep color, a vase life of seven to ten days when cared for properly. Most grocery tulips give you three to five.

If you want the long version of how we farm, our regenerative farming post walks through it in detail. The short version: living soil, no chemicals, hand-cut every morning, and out the door before the day warms up.

Come See It

If you are local, you are welcome to come pick up your bunch at the farm in Eagan rather than have it delivered. Pickup is free, and the field is at its best right now. There is no substitute for seeing a tulip field in person — the colors are richer than any photograph, and the scale of an open field of blooms is something you have to walk through to understand.

Whatever you choose — local pickup, Twin Cities delivery, or overnight shipping anywhere in the country — these flowers are at their freshest. They were grown in Minnesota soil, cut this morning, and they are ready to go to your table.

Welcome to spring.