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Omena Cut Flowers - "Must Have List" For Season-long Blooms
Note: All of these perform well in full sun. Many of them also do well in part shade. I've noted those that I know grow well in both levels of sun with an asterisk (*).

Beautiful Flower Beds
and Views of Omena Bay


How to contact Omena Cut Flowers
  • Call (231) 271-6432
  • eMail faught3@aol.com
  • Mail your subscription or comments to:
    Omena Cut Flowers
    P.O. Box 251
    Suttons Bay, MI 49682

Great Sources for Flower Bulbs, Seeds, Gardening Supplies and Outdoor Lifestyle Products and Information

About Suttons Bay
Omena Cut Flowers is located in 7 miles north of Suttons Bay on M-22, the same Michigan highway which travels around the entire Leelanau Peninsula.

Suttons Bay is located about 15 miles (about 20 minutes if traveling the speed limit!) north of Traverse City on M-22.

Suttons Bay is a lovely year 'round village surrounded to the east by the bay, and snuggged in under the hills along the shore.

The downtown main street business district is lined with shops, boutiques, galleries, restaurants, a movie theatre and a few antique and resale shops. And a very interesting bookstore down by the bay in the lower level of the Millside Building - Known Books of course!

































































 

"Best Cut Flower List"
Omena Cut Flowers' Recommendations

All of these perform well in full sun. Many of them also do well in part shade. I've noted those that I know grow well in both levels of sun with an asterisk (*).

Early Season

Perennials:

    -Daffodils and tulips, of course! *
    -Foxglove "Strawberry Mertonensis" *
    -Peony.
         Longest vase life
         "James Pillow" (pink)
         "Festiva Supreme" (white)
         "David Harum" (red)
         My personal favorite is the pink "Sarah Bernhardt." *

    -Catmint
    -Lady's Mantle (great filler) *
    -Columbine *
    -Coral-Bells
    -Bearded Iris
    -Lupine (buy the Russell hybrids) *
    -Thrift: try Armeria "Joystick Red"
    -Painted daisies: get "James Kelway"
    - Lamb's Ear: pretty filler

Biennials:

    -Foxglove "Digitalis Purperia" *
    -Canterbury Bells (Campanula)
    -Sweet William (get the tall "Dianthus Barbatus") *

Mid-Season

Perennials:

    -Shasta Daisies *
    -Lavender *
    -Monarda *
    -Liatris *
    -Asiatic lilies
    -Sea Holly (Eryngium) good filler
    -Delphinium:
         best bets: "Giant Pacific"(very tall-need staking) and "Magic Fountains"

Biennials:

    - Campanula "persicifolia"

Annuals:

    - Larkspur: buy "Giant Imperial"
    -Snapdragons: buy "Rocket" for spikes tall enough for cutting

Late Season

Perennials:

    -Tansy: "Goldsticks" Can be invasive!
    -Scabiosa "Pincushion flower." Get the taller S. causasica for cutting
    -Purple Coneflower: buy "Magnus" for petals that won't droop
    -Veronica: buy "Speedwell" *
    -Rudbeckia: buy "Goldstrum" *
    -Phlox: White "David" and pink "Bright Eyes." *
    -Mums with tall stems
    -Japanese anemones: can be invasive!
    -Obedient plant: invasive!

Annuals:

    -Gladiolas
    -Zinnias: buy any "Elegans" type. Try "Benary's Giants", "Oklahoma", "State Fair." *
    -Cosmos -will reseed. *
    -Sunflowers:
          My favorites
         Chocolate brown "Velvet Queen"
         "Sunrich Orange"
         "Sunrich Lemon"

          --Look for "pollenless varieties" that won't shed pollen. *
    -Cleome
    -Rudbeckia "Indian Summer" (These come back for me if mulched and left undisturbed. *
    -Verbena Bonariensis -will reseed*
    -Salvia horminium: "Tri-color sage"
    -Coreopsis tinctoria (good filler) *


Please call us at 231-271-6432 or email faught3@aol.com for more info!

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Grower, Carolyn Faught


A Great Leelanau County Attraction!
Make It One of Your Must-Experience Destinations!

Omena Cut Flowers is a U-Pick flower farm located 7 miles north of Suttons Bay on M-22 in Leelanau County (sign visible along M-22).

We are open dawn 'til dusk daily, May through October and offer 23 beds to pick from with over 40 varieties of annuals and perennials grown. There is a self service shed on premises with jars of water, scissors, etc.


We also have perennial plants for sale and special order bouquets upon request. Also: sign up for a weekly delivery of flowers. Choose from our $15.00 Value Bouquet (featured below), $24 bouquet extrordinaire or a bucket full of blooms for $24. Every week brings something new depending on what's blooming. One week your bouquet might include, among many other things, peonies and lupine. In mid-summer, expect lilies, snaps, canterbury bells and many other lovely stems.

Please call us at 231-271-6432 or email faught3@aol.com for more info!




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