WildAugust Nursery & Flower Farm

26/08/2025

Coxcomb ✨

07/08/2025

This is it! The VERY LAST SHIPMENT of peonies arrived yesterday. The season has ended in Alaska, and we won’t get any more peonies in until it begins again next spring in the lower 48. I will have them available at tomorrow evening from 6-9 pm. Can’t make The Market? Feel free to call, text, or DM to make plans for pickup or delivery. 956-535-2117. These blooms are huge, beautiful, and $8/stem. Get them while they’re here. When they’re gone, they’re gone. 🌸

01/08/2025

This is not about flowers, but if you’ve been to WildAugust, you may already know I have dedicated much of myself to the overwhelming cause of animal welfare in our community over the last fifteen years. In January, a quiet, 25-pound, PBD (plain black dog) showed up at the flower farm. She took shelter under an overturned feed trough during a cold front that brought freezing conditions and rain. I felt sorry for her, so I brought her inside. I had no idea she was pregnant. She delivered six healthy puppies on March 17th. I have found homes for 2, but am still searching for families for the remaining 4. Two of the brown ones are boys; the smallest of the brown ones is a little girl. The little black puppy -with the darling ears!- is a girl. All of them are between 20 and 30 pounds at the moment. They are good with children and other dogs. I haven’t tested them with cats. They have had their first three rounds of DHPP vaccine and are on heartworm preventatives. If you or someone you know would like to add a new friend to your family, please let me know. -Jennifer

16/07/2025

SURPRISE! Our fellow flower farmers in Alaska have some extra stems available and we were able to get a case of fresh peonies this morning! Many Alaska growers lost their peony plants during a particularly cold winter- even by Alaska standards- and they weren’t expecting to have enough flowers to fill orders this summer. I was thrilled to find out some of the surviving plants have offered up extra blooms. We’ll have these gorgeous flowers available at this Friday from 6-9 pm for $8 each. Please call, text, or DM if you’d like to preorder. These are very limited, and while I am hopeful we’ll be able to get our hands on a few more cases in the weeks ahead, they are not promised. Get them while you can! 🌸

25/06/2025

Summer flowers, fresh from the field. 🌾

(L to R) Lisianthus ‘Mariachi Pink,’ Celosia spicata, Coxcomb ‘Jura Salmon,’ Amaranthus ‘Hot Biscuits,’ Tuberose ‘Mexican Single.’

15/06/2025

There are no good words for this loss; it seems more appropriate to use the language of things she loved instead, to speak in the vocabulary of gardens & birds. She grew herbs in her backyard, daily adding them to homemade sourdough, Sunday dinners, & along the edges of serving platters. At the end of a meal, when dining conceded to conversation, she would often pluck parsley from a cleared platter & chew on it thoughtfully as she listened. “Don’t you love the way basil smells when you water it?” she asked me once, standing beside her plants, hose in hand. Did she know how carefully I was paying attention? How much I delighted in her English rose catalogs or her recalling the flora of Colorado? “Have you ever seen a columbine?” I had not. We were climbing Mt. Casco when she pointed one out, & I marveled at its pleated blue petticoats, grieving that nothing so delicate & beautiful could grow in our punishing heat. Maidenhair fern was her favorite. She shared this while visiting my neighbor who tended a backyard wildscape, a haven for all kinds of birds. The green jays were less common then, & Marilyn wanted so much to see them. We visited Mrs. Gill together, sat in the light streaming into her sunroom & marveled at the brilliant jays. We were leaving when she noticed the maidenhair spilling out of a pot in a shady corner. “The faucet above it leaks,” Mrs. Gill explained. “That’s the secret. The fern loves the constant drip.” I tuck sprigs of my own maidenhair into Marilyn’s flowers now. I learned to grow it from Mrs. Gill too, all those years ago. I want to write Marilyn’s story like this, in the tendrils of the wild passionvine that scrambled up her back fence, in the soft purple of her cherished Birkenstocks, in the stones pocketed on Colorado summits & other sacred locales. Let the peonies & clematis tell of her youth in the mountains & the sprigs of pigeonberry & anacua speak of her love for the Valley & its treasures. Let me gather feathers & nests & eulogize her with a nod to warblers, vireos, & ruby-throats. Let all of it be for her a sort of botanical epitaph, & let it honor her story well. She was such a consequential part of mine.

06/06/2025

Summertime flowers. 🌞

05/05/2025

Mother’s Day! 🌸 I am slightly embarrassed to admit I just don’t have time to get everything uploaded to the website this year, so we’re accepting orders the old-fashioned way through messages, calls, and texts. We’ll have peonies in bunches and in vase arrangements as well as garden roses and an assortment of our own field-grown flowers including gardenias, lisianthus, zinnias, celosia, dianthus, rudbeckias, and statice. Vase arrangements start at $95, and paper-wrapped bunches start at $45. Orders will close on Wednesday at 5 pm. We will be open on Saturday from 9:30-1:30 during our weekly Market for order pickups. As always, we are closed on Sunday. I’m so grateful for your orders and am excited to help you celebrate the mothers in your life. 💕Please forgive the lack online. If you *do* prefer ordering through the website, just choose your favorite arrangement and let me know in the order notes if you’d like specific flowers or colors included. I’ll do my best to honor every detail. Grateful for you! -Jennifer

18/04/2025

And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” Matthew 27:29

15/02/2025

What a beautiful day in the flower barn. Thank you for all the orders, calls, shop visits, smiles, hugs, and love. 💕 I hope you feel it deeply today! ❤️

28/01/2025

Planting lisianthus ahead of this afternoon’s showers. Not gonna jinx it by saying they should be blooming in time for Mothers’ Day. 😉🌸🤞🏻

25/01/2025

Thank you for all the love for our new billboard. We’re pretty excited to see our flowers up there, and it’s thrilling to know you are too! ❤️🌸
GO TEXAN

GRATEFUL. THANKFUL. BLOOMING!! 💐💕🙏 Harlingen, we love you!