Splendor Oaks

💯Hot Stuff!

There is no bloom more appropriate to celebrate making it through another half year of farming than lisianthus! These ruffled masterpieces take nearly a full year to go from seed to harvest! 3 months of twice a day misting to get them to a transplant size, then they travel from our plug supplier on PA to us back in October. They went into the greenhouse and have been slowly growing there ever since. I experimented with some supplemental lighting to try to get them to bloom earlier than their usual timeline, which is 4th of July week, a notoriously slow week for flower sales. I think I learned how to adjust for next year but the good news is that they are finally available! For those of you who are not traveling for the 4th, please consider scooping up some of these beauties. They have the longest vase life out of all of our crops and we have some incredible summer standouts to pair with them! DM to order for farmstand pick up from 10-6pm tomorrow (Friday)! 7888 Bells Ferry Rd. Canton, GA 30114

🕰️ In due time.

Just over 5 years ago, my brother Danny Pelaez came in town with a small bag full of black seeds. He said he collected them off of some kind of lily that grew in his area but that he didn’t know what kind it was. Somehow those seeds germinated and a handful of plants have been growing steadily. Each year I have hoped a bloom would emerge to crack the identity mystery. Every winter, they would die back and all I could do was pray it would survive another year. Each spring I would move a few of them around to see if the lighting would make a difference but also to mitigate the risk of total loss in case an animal or disease took out an area. A few weeks ago what looked like a bud started emerging from one of the plants. This weekend it bloomed. A true tiger lily. It’s not seen often as they are highly poisonous to cats, so most growers don’t keep them.

All of that to say, it has been a lesson in patience and trusting timelines will unfold precisely when the good Lord says. Yesterday had a series of micro moments that had me sensing my plans for today were going to shift out of my control but that I should lean in with confidence of the good that would come of it. Sure enough, I got to watch two of my worlds collide such a way that has left me teary-eyed with gratitude and cheeks that ache from smiling ear to ear for hours on end. Sitting on the sidelines and watching divine timing in real time is something I will never tire of. To those in waiting, hang in here, it worth letting things unfold on their own. Make like a tiger lily and just keep coming back year after year with slow but steady growth. Beauty is coming.

💓- Dayana