Marigold Acre

Marigold Acre Marigold Acre is a small scale, field grown,seasonal flower farm located in Monticello, Illinois. Prune and bloom.

We grow our own blooms from June through October and specialize in market bouquets and custom bouquets.

06/02/2026

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Bring me the sunset in a cup. - Emily Dickinson May 28, 20268:35pm75 degrees A perfect evening to plant some flowers đŸŒŒ ...
05/29/2026

Bring me the sunset in a cup. - Emily Dickinson

May 28, 2026
8:35pm
75 degrees

A perfect evening to plant some flowers đŸŒŒ

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Ba...
05/24/2026

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” ― Charles Mingus

The Ninebark ‘Amber Jubilee’ is one of my favorite shrubs.
I walked past it today and had to cut a few branches.
The colors are phenomenal.
The colors play differently depending on the light; full sun vs. part shade.
It never disappoints.
I added in some yarrow to pull out the color tones in the Ninebark leaves.
Things don’t always need to be fancy.
Simple is beautiful.

https://conservect.org/northcentral/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ninebark-Amber-Jubilee.pdf

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. - Hebrews 11:1These zinnia seeds were p...
05/22/2026

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. - Hebrews 11:1

These zinnia seeds were planted last week.
They spouted just as I had hoped.
Next week, I will thin them out.
Months prior I began visualizing exactly what these summer bouquets would look like with these zinnias.
The colors.
The filler flowers that will complement them.
What type of foliage I will use.
These bouquets were alive and real in my imagination.
Such a good thing to think about 🌾
What we think about is powerful and life-changing.
Remember that.

At Marigold Acre, each seed is hand sown and tended to each day.
We don’t buy plugs from other companies.
We don’t have hoop houses or a green house, just the gift of a plot of land.
Dreams often don’t need anything fancy.
Just a determined mindset.

The challenge of growing each seed and the fluctuations of the weather, coupled with transplant timing makes every bouquet a beautiful miracle in the end.

Prune and bloom, my friends.

05/21/2026

Turn up the volume!
No other sounds are necessary.

We planted this native garden in the fall of 2024.

Shown are:
Foxglove Beardtongue
Penstemon digitalis
It attracts many different bees, as well as hummingbirds.

Blue Wild Indigo
Baptisia australis
The first few years this plant develops roots underground. This was the first season it bloomed. It’s incredible.

In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside 24 hours. - Mark TwainI think that is the state quot...
05/21/2026

In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside 24 hours. - Mark Twain

I think that is the state quote for Illinois?
Chilly.
Windy.
Warm.
Cold.
What a spring!
The new transplants are waiting for permission to grow.
Oh, but the yarrow

The yarrow smiles despite the weather.

The true method of knowledge is experiment. - William BlakeNew growing season. New flowers. New successes. New “well tha...
05/13/2026

The true method of knowledge is experiment. - William Blake

New growing season.
New flowers.
New successes.
New “well that didn’t go as planned.”
I wish I learned the art of experimenting in life when I was younger.
The grace of both success and failure.
Trying and trying again.
It’s a beautiful gift to give yourself.

Look at that sweet, little watering can.
It’s my granddaughter’s.
She’s a little over a year old.
My future flower farmer partner.
She’s the greatest at trying to figure things out.
She’s my little hero.

Flowers are amazing to grow, but so are veggies đŸ«‘đŸŒ¶ïž 🍅I do a 8x4 salsa garden. I plant peppers, sweet and mild jalapeño, ...
05/05/2026

Flowers are amazing to grow, but so are veggies đŸ«‘đŸŒ¶ïž 🍅

I do a 8x4 salsa garden. I plant peppers, sweet and mild jalapeño, tomatoes, onions, red and yellow, and cilantro. I grow cucumbers on cow panels that arch between my raised beds.

Today, I potted up the peppers and tomatoes and those will be planted in the garden in 3 weeks.

Do you garden? Do you want to try gardening?

Here’s a good place to start
https://extension.illinois.edu/gardening

Whether you think you can or think you can’t
you’re right. - Henry FordI needed to read this quote today. Life comes dow...
04/30/2026

Whether you think you can or think you can’t
you’re right. - Henry Ford

I needed to read this quote today.
Life comes down to my thoughts.
So does your life.
Taking a look back at last year’s flowers filled me with a little momentum because sometimes things that start out light can soon feel heavy.
Then, I see the flowers.
Oh yeah
this is what it’s all about.
Thinking you can’t.
Then you can.
So you try.
Then you fall.
You stand back up.
Dust yourself off.
Prune and bloom.
Over and over.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed hasbeen, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me tha...
04/27/2026

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has
been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed
there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
Henry David Thoreau

When you plant a seed, expect an abundant harvest!
That’s the essence of faith.
These plants are all getting prepared to be planted out in the ground in the next few days.
Looks like one more chilly night, so we’ll wait for that to pass.
From tiny seeds to beautiful plants to bouquets imagined last January.
Faith.

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Monticello, IL
61856

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