This #gongora took a year off flowering but made up for it this season with two nice long spikes! Something about this pendant bloomers that make them more tropical and exotic. Pretty easy grower, likes lots of humidity and water. #brokenchimneyfarm #grownnotflown #góngorahistrionica #getstemmed #americanorchidsociety #orchidaddict
Great looking first bloomer from #motesorchids - the color is more vibrant than the photo shows and the spike is pretty good size in relation to the plant size - expect great things from this plant in the future. #brokenchimneyfarm #americanorchidsociety #vanda #purple #firstbloom #getstemmed
Still a few bouquets of beautiful #peonies available on the UWS at 66th Street. Hurry before they are all gone, they have pink and coral peony bunches but they won’t last long. #brokenchimneyfarm #grownnotflown #allnatural #nyc #uws
@mylkclub did a wonderful job of putting together an arrangement of some of our coral charm #peonies - they clearly have excellent style and taste! #brokenchimneyfarm #grownnotflown #coralcharm #allnatural
Peony season is off to a strong start, the early season is mostly singles / anemone types with some glorious #bartzellapeony Itoh hybrids mixed in. @carolasager has put over 600 in the cooler this week and we haven’t even gotten to the big fluffy doubles that people can’t help burying their noses in! Also our usual parade of perennial #iris #aquiligia and #alliums are brightening the perennial beds. #brokenchimneyfarm #grownnotflown #peony #farmerflorist #allnatural #nochemicals
Found this #epiphyllum cactus bloom inside a vanda pot yesterday! We have several varieties of epiphytic cactus which are doing their own thing vining through the rafters, some ornamental, some edible dragon fruit. The blooms are huge and stunning but short lived. This peach color is a first for us, most are either white or intense red. #brokenchimneyfarm #grownnotflown #orchidcactus #epiphyte
Check out the amazing aura on this dancing bear that was hiding in a mulberry stump. Day 4 of stump grinding had us finding new patterns in every pass of the grinder. #heatstroke #brokenchimneyfarm #brainfry #dancingbears #gummybears #goodaura
Pardon the funky angles - this guy is growing happily up in the rafters - three spikes and tons of color. #sunsetvalleyorchids #brokenchimneyfarm #americanorchidsociety #cattleya #svo5752
Just two bunches left on the UWS of these awesome fresh a’natural tulips. This week is the very start of the lily tulips and the end of the purple parrots. #brokenchimneyfarm #tulips #grownnotflown #getstemmed #blucafe
Ooooh the variety! Not your grandma’s #daffodils - fun fact, daffodils will kill other flowers that share the same water - that’s why you see them sold as bunches of all the same.... but that’s boring, so our solution was to pick interesting varieties that look different and create mixed bunches that blow away those bodega bunches! #getstemmed #brokenchimneyfarm #mixedbag #mixitup #nycflowers #grownnotflown
Spring has sprung! This combo of #hellebores #magnolia and #rhododendron will add some life to an otherwise gray space for days to come. Sign up now and use code SPRING for 10% off your first three months! Every bouquet is unique and locally sourced, feel good about it! #grownnotflown #getstemmed #freshflowers #officedoldrums #onlynyc link in bio.
We take a landscaping approach to #daffodils - instead of dedicating bed space to them we plant big drifts in otherwise hard to utilize parts of the property. That way we get to enjoy them, cut them and let them increase in numbers over time. Think we will coin the phrase #financiallandscaping #brokenchimneyfarm #grownnotflown #farmerflorist #allnatural
What have we been up to you ask? Finishing up the back attic. We discovered this attic only after we demolished the kitchenette that was blocking the access to the fold out attic stairs. When we stepped in this space it was filled with random things from old beds to WWII memorabilia. It seems that the poor planning didn’t allow for this place to be accessed for many many years. Thank you to @orensky @asafbaruch for helping us out emptying this space (still looking for old photos from 2014.) since then we have added additional support to the end wall, insulation eeeevrywhereee, redid the windows, put in 10 foot Sheetrock thanks to @semikaferi @cayjoam @donald_nyc @orensky for helping us lift these huge pieces. Here we are now with a loft that will seat on top of a solarium with a bird eye view from that floor edge. Don’t worry, there will be a railing there. We put in a salvaged rug from the house and some furniture from our Manhattan apartment. The scale of furniture makes it feel like a playroom but we’ll get some adult size pieces soon. Rafe has luckily decided to study in the NE and he has been coming over and helping us a ton with everything we have needed. All the carpentry skill is from @carolasager. Starting from windows to stairs to trim to everything making this space feel finished and usable. @grspearman @ermelak #brokenchimneyfarm #thisoldhouse #diy #oldhomes #amenia #carpentry #family #ittakesavillage #mycountryhome #oldhouserenovation #oldhouse
Just another #cattleya bloom brightening the greenhouse. Everything is waking up, the figs are breaking Bud, the orchids are peeking up and the fall planted bulbs are peeking through the soil. All good things. #americanorchidsociety #brokenchimneyfarm #grownnotflown #americanorchidsociety #svo5845
Won our first orchid award one year ago - made it into the #americanorchidsociety magazine this month! Not gonna lie, pretty excited by this. #brokenchimneyfarm #grownnotflown #orchidaddict #sunsetvalleyorchids
Who doesn’t love a black orchid??? Getting more common these days thanks to some amazing breeders out there but still a treat. #brokenchimneyfarm #sunsetvalleyorchids #grownnotflown #blackorchid #catasetum #svo6477 #fdkkellylongley
Another first bloom #catasetum hybrid from #sunsetvalleyorchids - similar to its sibling that bloomed a few months back but in Orange/yellow vs sunset shades. #svo6878 is really a great cross and well worth adding to the collection. Who doesn’t need a little extra brightness this time of year?!? #brokenchimneyfarm #americanorchidsociety #orchidaceae #grownnotflown
Sometimes the hens conspire to make the perfect chromatic composition. #brokenchimneyfarm #fresheggs #allnatural #goodstuff #huevos #fancyeggs
An excellent first bloom from this reliable cross - #Brassavola Jimminy Cricket - likes full sun and good drainage - we have it growing on a gnarled old chunk of grape vine and it has really taken off. Has a wonderful nighttime scent (like many white/light green orchids) but we don’t spend much time in the greenhouse between midnight and 4AM so can’t attest to it personally. #americanorchidsociety #brokenchimneyfarm #grownnotflown #cattleya #epiphyte
Some things are just evident at a wicked young age. Thanks @toniprofera @ronin_amg for finding this gem.