Summers of hours spent gathering armloads of cutflowers for the Farmers'
Markets have taught us what creatures are attracted to what flowers or visa
versa. Monarchs, swallowtails, satyr/wood nymphs, sphinx moths,
hummingbirds, purple finches, yellow canaries, Eastern bluebirds, flickers,
hairy woodpeckers, and a host of other wildlife live in and around Redbud
Farms. The tall prairie grasses of rural mid-Michigan shelter and hide
grass-nesting birds, rabbits, pheasants, wild turkey, grouse, doves, and
bobwhites from predators. For $4.95 extra, we'll even
design the garden for you!
These are my companions as I work in the rows of beautiful, aromatic
flowers each day of the summer. We have taken this knowledge gained from
our observations and pastoral pleasures and created garden mix packaged
products to offer you! Each packet has enough seed to do at minimum a
20-50 square foot plot. Careful spacing and good weeding will
yield far more cultivatable garden delights. Select from one of
the offers detailed below.
Key Benefits
Discover the enchanting combinations which attract bird or
butterfly -- the Songbird, Hummingbird, and Butterfly Mixture.
Discover which flowers make good craft materials for use in
wreathes or special arrangements -- the Dried Flower Mixture.
Discover which of the perennials you like best and which grow well
in your gardens before you commit to a whole bed of them -- Perennial
Mixture.
Love the night pollinators? Want to attract them to your
gardens? Go for the Glory Mix.
Which flowers work best in the vase, tolerating heat and humidity
while remaining beautiful? See our Annual Cutflower Mixture.
Have a difficult spot in your yard? What not try our
Wildflower Mixture?
Don't miss our Gift Wrap a Garden page!
Here we have combined our products into color themes (i.e., Blue Garden, Pastel
Garden), garden themes , and 3-D Garden Design to those inclined to just let us do the work and
the planning. Order a garden, a $25, $35, $50, or $75 value, and Van Dyke
Zinnias will gift wrap and send it to you or directly to the recipient! We will
select a garden for your gift recipient based on their climate/zone, or you may
choose to do this from our catalog of offers. For $4.95 more, let us
Design the Garden to add to your gift.
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From time to time, we will offer web-only specials and publish
short stories about the Farm Dogs or the grandkids, and inspirations from life on the Farm in mid-Michigan, the
American heartland. Seasonally, we will write to help Gardeners grow beautiful Zinnias,
learn how to make a stunning
bouquet, or how to collect precious seed when harvest is here. Let us know
if you would like to receive them.
We have moved our web to a new server and resized all photos for faster load
times. As we approach another winter, I hope
you visit us often to see our pretty pictures and read about the simple things
we love most here. Thanks for being a
customer! -Sharon Baller, President