Usher in the vibrance of spring with our Spring CSA flower shares! Each week, delight in a beautiful bouquet featuring fresh, seasonal flowers such as tulips, daffodils, ranunculus, anemone, and poppies. These aren't your boring grocery store flowers - we cultivate rare, heirloom, and fancy blooms that will bring life to your home.
Spring shares are 4 weeks and usually start in early April, but start time can vary slightly based on weather conditions and how quickly flowers come into bloom. Bouquets typically include 7-15 stems depending on the size and value of the blooms. Scroll through the pictures to see the different varieties we're growing just for you!
Bouquets can be picked up on Saturdays and Sundays, 10am-2pm from our self-serve flower stand located between Baltimore City's Homeland and Rosebank neighborhoods. Approximately 1-2 weeks before the CSA share begins, we'll email you the first pickup date, address, and instructions.
Please know it is every shareholder's responsibility to pick up their share during the allotted pick up time. If you miss a week due to our error, we are happy to replace your share. If you are away, we ask that you send a friend or neighbor - our flowers make great gifts! As we finalize our seeding and planting schedules months in advance to meet the needs of our shares and orders each week, we unfortunately cannot accommodate vacation change requests during the season.
Spring CSA Flower Share - 4 Weeks
As farmers, we are humbled by Mother Nature, she is our not so silent partner. We work hard to mitigate risks through good planning, crop diversification, by protecting our crops from early and late frosts, pests, disease, high winds, and most anything Mother Nature throws at us. We also greatly appreciate you - our CSA flower share members - for sharing the risks and rewards of farming with us. You pay for your share in the winter, which allows us to cover the costs of seeds and supplies. We greatly appreciate your willingness to follow along and share both the risks and rewards. For our part, we promise to work tirelessly to uphold our end of the bargain and deliver sustainable, local, fresh flowers to you each week.
We typically harvest your flowers within 24 hours of your pickup time, making them much more fresh than flowers you can buy in any store. Our flowers typically last about a week, but some varieties have shorter or longer vase life.
Tulips, daffodils, lisianthus, snapdragons, sunflowers - when harvested at the right stage, can last almost two weeks. Zinnias, dahlias, poppies, sweet peas and some other varieties typically last 4-5 days. We grow over 50 varieties of flowers, and each flower has its own unique habits and proper post harvest treatment. Our best recommendation is this—- place your bouquet in a very clean vase, with clean water. Be sure to remove all leaves and extra foliage below the water line. Only stems should be in the water to keep it clean. Change the water every morning when you have your coffee. Bacteria build up in the water speeds up decay of flowers. You can snip 1/2 inch off stem ends every few days so the stems take a fresh drink. Also, keep your bouquet out of direct sunlight and extreme heat as this will also shorten life.
NOTE: We stand behind our product, and since flowers are highly perishable, sometimes things happen. If your bouquet dies within a day or two of pick up, something went wrong! Send us an email and picture to rosebankblooms@gmail.com and we will schedule a time for you to pick up a replacement bouquet.
