Your June Flower Guide
June is here! The days are longer, the light stays a few hours later, and the farm is starting to fill with color. After the slow building of spring, these gorgeous flowers are arriving right on time. Here’s what’s blooming in June and what makes each flower worth knowing.
Snapdragons
Snapdragons are one of the great cool-season flowers, and June is their moment. The tall, densely packed spikes come in an extraordinary range of colors, from deep burgundy and coral to soft peach and pure white. They bring vertical height to arrangements that flat-faced flowers can't provide, and they last remarkably well in a vase, opening from the bottom of the spike upward over the course of a week.
Cosmos
Few flowers are as effortlessly beautiful as Cosmos. Their feathery, finely cut foliage and wide, open faces in shades of pink, white, and magenta, catch the breeze in a way that makes any bouquet feel alive. They're one of the most generous flowers in the garden: the more you cut them, the more they produce reliably through the entire season. In an arrangement, they add a wildflower looseness that softens more structured flowers and keeps things from looking too stiff. June is when the first big flush arrives, and it's worth gathering them by the armful.
Marigolds
Marigolds have been unfairly dismissed as garden-center filler for too long. The cutting varieties grown on farms like ours are genuinely stunning flowers. They carry a warm, spicy scent that's distinctly their own, and their colors are some of the richest the summer palette offers. In arrangements they pair beautifully with cooler tones that make the orange and yellow sing. They're also remarkable companion plants in the vegetable garden, where their roots and scent help deter pests, a flower that earns its place twice over.
Scabiosas
Scabiosa is one of the most charming things growing on the farm in June. The blooms sit atop long, wiry stems and open into intricate, domed heads of tiny florets surrounded by petals in shades of lavender, deep purple, white, and soft pink. They are loved for adding refinement and airiness to mixed bouquets. Bees and butterflies absolutely love them, which means a patch of scabiosa in bloom is rarely a quiet place. Cut them when the outer ring of florets has just opened for the longest vase life.
Feverfew
Feverfew is a workhorse that deserves far more credit than it gets. The small, white daisy-like blooms with bright yellow centers appear in cheerful clusters on branching stems, and their fine-textured foliage is as useful in an arrangement as the flowers themselves. In a bouquet, feverfew acts as a filler that doesn't feel like a filler; it has genuine character, a clean herbal scent, and a freshness that makes everything around it look better. It's also incredibly productive and easy to grow, returning year after year once established. If you've ever wondered what gives a farmstand bouquet that fresh, just-gathered feeling, feverfew is often the answer.
As early summer arrives, take a moment to enjoy all that these gorgeous flowers have to offer, filling your home with the beauty of the season. We hope they brighten your days as much as they brighten ours!
