Three Sisters Garden

Three Sisters Garden Message us today for a wrapped bouquet or bucket of flowers.

Micro flower farm in Macomb, IL
We grow and sell flowers using sustainable and pollinator friendly methods for the farmers market, local florists and your personal events.

We have 3 bouquets left, 1 bok choy and 1 bag of collards left! Come help us sell out!
06/14/2025

We have 3 bouquets left, 1 bok choy and 1 bag of collards left! Come help us sell out!

What a BEAUTIFUL morning at the Macomb Farmers Market come see us, grab breakfast and a free book for the kiddos!
06/14/2025

What a BEAUTIFUL morning at the Macomb Farmers Market come see us, grab breakfast and a free book for the kiddos!

Tomorrow morning at the Macomb Farmers Market we will have just picked & never sprayed black raspberries, bok choy, butt...
06/13/2025

Tomorrow morning at the Macomb Farmers Market we will have just picked & never sprayed black raspberries, bok choy, butter head lettuce, kale, collard greens, and kohlrabi! And of course fresh flowers too 😊

Flashback to "my" first flower garden at my Nana Rose and Papa Bobs house. There's a reason why I love flowers and garde...
06/04/2025

Flashback to "my" first flower garden at my Nana Rose and Papa Bobs house. There's a reason why I love flowers and gardening so much. If I had more photos there would also be some of me following my Papa Earl Archdales around on the farm, Papa Smiths overflowing gardens, my own parents and my Uncle Scott's garden growing up and as an adult here at our current property. Runs strong in the blood!

Most flower farmers treat tulips as annuals and compost the bulbs each year and start over with fresh bulbs. (Why? Keep ...
06/02/2025

Most flower farmers treat tulips as annuals and compost the bulbs each year and start over with fresh bulbs. (Why? Keep reading ☺️) Schyler Brush, owner of BouKays and a few others convinced me to try saving my bulbs for next year so that's what we have been up to the past couple of days while preparing the bed for dahlias.
As a flower farmer I strive to only sell the biggest blooms, best quality, and longest stem length I can to my customers. I also grow and sell many specialty varieties that aren't known for being great perennials but they are so gorgeous. Bulbs typically need their foilage to be able to photosynthesis and regenerate enough energy to store for the next season in order to give their biggest blooms again. Even if I were to cut the tulips at their base and not pull them they wouldn't have any leaves left.
Speaking of pulling them, yes, flower farmers typically pull them from the ground, bulb and all when harvesting. This is for a couple of reasons.
1.) Tulips can be stored dry in the cooler with their bulb on for over 2 weeks!
2.) I get several more inches of stem length by pulling them (some of my tulips are over 20 inches long 😶😁.) This is important especially when selling to florists.
Also, growing on a micro flower farm means I just do not have the space to keep them in the ground year round and give them a few years to regenerate.
Some of the varieties I grow though are actually really good at naturalizing (like Fosteria and Darwin tulips.) And I wasn't able to harvest every single tulip early enough for them to be the best quality so I let them bloom in their bed. Plus the deer had a feast on my late peony type blooms so I had several that still had foilage. The bulb pictured is one of those which is why it is HUGE and created lots of baby bulbs. Im saving these ones plus other smaller ones that broke off while harvesting for this experiment and I'll replant them this fall in my personal tulip bed ☺️ the smaller guys will likely take a few years to give me their best blooms again but hopefully all this work will be worth it and maybe in the years to come I can figure out a way to keep more of them in the ground.

What is your favorite way to cook bok choy?? We have limited blooms currently so if you want flowers tomorrow come to th...
05/31/2025

What is your favorite way to cook bok choy??
We have limited blooms currently so if you want flowers tomorrow come to the Macomb Farmers Market early! We will also have the bok choy pictured available ☺️

Anemones & Ranunculus are a perfect match
05/29/2025

Anemones & Ranunculus are a perfect match

Ranunculus + Anemones Made for each other
05/29/2025

Ranunculus + Anemones
Made for each other

Who wants a fresh spring bouquet to brighten up their home today? I can do local pickup $20 or delivery $25. Since we sk...
05/28/2025

Who wants a fresh spring bouquet to brighten up their home today? I can do local pickup $20 or delivery $25.
Since we skipped the market last weekend to catch up on everything else I am bursting at the seams with flowers 😍

We wont be at the market today but if you're taking a moment to remember and honor this weekend we have red, white, and ...
05/24/2025

We wont be at the market today but if you're taking a moment to remember and honor this weekend we have red, white, and blue bouquets available. Perfect for graveside visits or just keeping memories close at home.

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