Will Grand Opening Be A Success?
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2023
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The arrival of Tulips brings with it our Grand Opening of the roadside farm stand, as well as our first farmers market of the year. The Tulips look amazing, but are a lot of work to keep up with as Serina spends her time harvesting, cleaning and arranging bouquets, and stocking the stand with lots of bouquets. The farmers market really kicks into gear as with Ian setting up a beautiful display, but will that be enough to move a literal trucks worth of bouquets? Stay tuned to find out!
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The plain tulip bouquets need some kind of filler or greenery. Perception sells bouquets. I have been in the industry for more than 30 years and even though we know value, price point, cost of goods etc.... A buyer on Sees what they See. Simple tulips alone just do not have the perceptive value for a buyer. Juice the bouquets up with some simple filler or greens and they will go faster. I always enjoy your videos and get so excited for your market days. I wish you the very best of luck this season!!
Big YES to the white canopy!
The white tent makes a huge difference in how your flowers look! But it was a punch of color that was part of your brand and may have helped customers find you. Could you (in your copious spare time, lol) add a red border to the bottom or something else to give it that punch-from-a-distance? Maybe some red balloons on the corners?
I've thought about a red banner along the front but haven't had time yet
@@YouCantEatTheGrass I prefer the red roof tent as it coincides with your farm name and stands out at the market -- a white "black out fabric" liner on the underside of the red roof would keep the look of the flowers true to their colour (IMHO). All the best in this new market season.
Totally agree with the branding. Could you paint the sign in the back? (The roof portion red?) or put the red cover over the white? Not sure if that would work, but you need “the red roof!” Love your channel! Best wishes for a successful season.
The roadside stand is a simple piece of brilliance! That wouldn't work here. Too many dang thieves. Pulling for yall to have a great year - nice start!!
Been missing your beautiful flower videos. Looking forward to the new season ❤🌺🇲🇾
It has begun lol
Once you all feel better, can we have garden tour videos with Serina in her pretty dresses? 👗
Congratulations on the official start to the selling season! I love how you call your stem chopper your “ker-chunk machine”
Also can so relate to Ian always thinking he’s forgotten something for the market! I’m always the exact same for my markets 😂
Every shot of the Serena bouquet makes me giggle. Hope you guys have a great season!
❤️ that money shot
“Tulips in the garden, tulips in the park, nothing could be finer than tulips in the dark.” 🌷🌷🌷
Hey... I was wondering: maybe the the branche with the leaves on them was the trick of last years success with the tulips (probably not hte timer for them yet?)? The one stick does look a bit lost for me, the few leaves last year filled up the space and made it look full even with the closed flowers. Just a thought.
Anyways: I loved your flowers and I know you will be a success because your flowers are just gorgous. And you are great observers so you will find out what your customers want from you this year. Looking forward to your postings and following you along!
The flowers look SO MUCH BETTER with the white roof 😱♥️♥️♥️
Congratulations on a great spring grand opening ! Mother's day will be even better!
Ive seen videos of tulip farmers who grow in crates on tables or benches. Eliminates bending over to harvest and vole damage ❤
I love how you shot video's while your actually working makes for VERY INTERESTING time well spent🎉🎉...❤❤❤
And put up the red tent in front of your stand for extra shade. 👌🏻
I'm literally doing that right now lol
YAY TULIPS! I grew 'Black Hero' peony tulips with 'La Belle Epoque' this year and anyone that saw them or got gifted some were AMAZED by them 😍 Stoked you guys are all on the mend from the plague 💚
We are feeling mostly better just a bit lower energy than normal
@@YouCantEatTheGrass Can confirm it took me a month to kick the fatigue with being immunosuppressed, the outdoors definitely helps!
During the time-lapse starting at 23:47, I can actually see the Serina bouquet slowly "recover" and slowly go upright in the background. So fun to watch. :) Oh and finally, an all-white tent! I was so ecstatic to see that. :)
So cool🤩🤩
Tulips are beautiful. It’s only going to improve. Wishing you all the best. After all your hard work💐🌷🌷🌷🌾
Gorgeous Bouquets!! But so Impressed with Serena’s freehand sign penmanship!! 😃🤩
Great have an already flower fix there. Glad the head didn't ruin the Tulips for the market!
I'm so happy you've all gotten through the plague! Hopefully no lasting effects after the exhaustion goes away. 😊❤
The pink shirt memorialized on the openning sales weekend. Rest in Peace pink shirt! Here's to a great start to the season!
SO happy to see bouquets being made again!!!
You two should buy a couple mini-fridges to put in the flower stand for the more precious flowers like tulips. 💐
The stand has an air conditioner so the room has some cooling.
I wish I lived closer, i'd definitely support yalls business! for now, Texas loves yall
You guys are so young and you are both completely on the right track. It’s wonderful to see 🌷
Love the white canopy!
Love how you two work so well together.
I worry some crook will see that cash box and rip you off.
Keep up the good work.👏👏
The tulips are gorgeous! I wish I was close enough to buy a bunch from you.
Why is it so satisfying to hear that pop when the leaves are pulled off lol!!!! Them branches are genius!!! Iv not seen that before, what are they lol branches doesn't tell me muc??
The branches are from our cherries. They had buds, so they would bloom in the vase for customers
How wonderful you are both feeling better!
I love videos of you picking the flowers and making bouquets and learning the specific varieties of what you are using in your bouquets ❤
I also would love to see more videos of you teaching us the right time to harvest the different varieties of flowers you grow
I think Serena needs a tarp for when she’s cleaning flowers, so she can throw them on the ground on a tarp and then you can just compost it all 😂
I just watched flower hill farm mothers day tulip sale.
30.00 last year. They were definately much bigger and had daffodils and many dogwood sticks.
Thry need to be stunning and you can ask more
"Still a lot of bulbs left over", NEVER a bad thing!!! 😂😂
The bouquets look beautiful 🌷
I wonder if you need to add at least Some red to the tent, if it was me I would be looking for that Red for Red Roof Family Farm. It’s like part of your brand recognition. 🤓
Yes, I’d make the roof in the logo red.
Have you thought about bringing one with the tulips fully open down to the market to show people what they will look like?
We brought an open bouquet the next week
Great work guys!
Beautiful!!
Glad you are feeling better 🎉
Those bouquets are gorgeous!!
Glad you had a good first weekend. 🥰
Great season starter🎉❤️
Kitty with muted leopard markings is awesomely beautiful - and knows it! You may kiss the royal paw LOL. Of course the flowers are lovely too! A labour of love!🥰
He's such a skittish jerk. He hates being grabbed, lol
So glad to see these videos again! I love market videos. Congrats on your first weekend of sales! I wonder if last years bouquets sold better because they appeared to be fuller in the videos and photos. Is that because they were more open? Or more stems? Thats my guess, maybe the leaves last year drew folks attention in more.
Tulips & cute kitties! 💐🐈
I wish you HUGH SUCCESS on your opening and for the remainder of the year!
If I lived near you, I would definitely stop by and purchase myself a Mother’s Day bouquet!!!
Good for you!!!
they look beautiful
Love these videos!!
Gorgeous flowers! Glad you are feeling better! I was worried you would lose all those flowers! Great first weekend! Congrats! Nice job on cleaning the work room and nice assembly line. Get some rest. Your bodies can’t do all nighters right now. 😃❤ ❤❤❤
Thanks for another enjoyable video; I look forward to them!
Yay, a new video!
Glad to see the assembly going more structured and relaxed, looking awesome 😊
I ❤ you guys!! You are an inspiration to me, keep up the good work!!! 😊
Really liking the chill music in the background
Good to hear you feel much better,the tulips looks beautiful Sabrina you make such a beautiful bouquet 💐 I wish you all the best and take care yourself guys.
23:35 You can see the sad tulips lift up during the timelapse
You both look and sound much better. I'm glad. Tulips, pretty perky perfect tulips! Glad your sales started out well. Have a great weekend!
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Oh how I wished I lived near buy those are really lovley tulips 🌷
thank you!
I am happy you guys feel better!! Great video, I always choose yours over others 😂 excited to see how this season goes for you and crossing fingers 🤗 Greetings, Judit
I love pink and orange together. Or red.
You guys are just so fun and cute 🥰
Love you guys!! And that tie-dye sweatsuit ;)
Happy Mother’s Day Serina🌹🌹🌷🌷🌹🌹🌷🌷
Any particular reason you didn’t paint the door to the roadside stand red?
YES!!! I’ve been patiently waiting for how many months for thissss vids!!! I’m. a sucker for harvest vids!!! 🤩🤩🤩
So happy to see so much colour back on your farm! Quick question, why can’t you reuse the tulip bulbs for next year after you pull them? Wishing you so much success this season!
Flowers will be smaller. If you use blood meal & bone meal to help feed them, that could help revive them. It takes sometime for that fertilizer to break down & is usable.
The market flowers look 100% better without the red canopy!!!
The tulips are beautiful. Just a suggestion. Rearrange your booth so that there is a table on both sides and a third across the top (u shaped). This brings people inside your booth to see flowers on three different tables. Once inside, they may be more likely to buy because they will be closer to more flowers.
We used to have that layout, but it limited how many people would shop the table. They would all wait to take turns entering the u, and so we would only have 1 customer at a time. With this layout, customers will engage with the stand 3 groups at a time. This layout brought up our total market sales. But, I agree, it's super important to keep trying out new layouts to find what will work best - I would have never thought this layout would be so successful, and I prefer the look of the u
I think it would be so so helpful to have a bouquet in full bloom - at the market and in the roadside stand - just folks can see what it is going to look like.
I’m so impressed! 15 summer bouquets an hour! I’m so new at this. I MIGHT be able to do 6-7 an hour. You’re the boss!
My goal for this year and moving forward is to start designing the bouquets to be even faster to arrange. Some flowers are fussy. And if I can have more spray style flowers that will speed up the process too. We are building the farm to be based on volume
Love the bright tulips. I’d prefer bright over pastel ant my time.
💲💲💲Congratulations! 😃
They are beautiful! If I lived near you, I would volunteer to wash the tulips , for a few free flowers every week. Good Luck.
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Serbia’s flowers are beautiful! They’ll perk up!
Have you thought about putting a screen door on with the glass to keep it cooler in there.
I agree with some of the others in the comments. The red roof may have impacted the colour of the flowers, but it was a massive point of difference and made your stall stand out. You either need a big red banner or some other solution as at the moment you've lost your branding.
So excited for the season starting! New harvest vlogs again! YAY!
Small question: I heard people saying that daphodiles excrede a chemical making other flowers wither. So this is just a myth then, probably?
Not a myth! If you let them soak in water for 24 hours before adding them with other flowers, the other ones will not be killed by the daffodils. If you were to cut them and immediately put them with others, you WILL lose the others.
I'm guessing 20 on opening day!!❤
BooksandLala is another channel and she lives in Kelowna too! Different interests - books and gardens.
I think you can re plant those bulb.. !
Perhaps go to 25 bucks to make a more stunning bouquet ? I love the selection of tulips you have.
Tent : i’d use a red accessory to cover that ripped up part. A banner ? A border ?
I love tulips and always make sure to get 1 bouquet a year! Be prepared this year for inflation and recession fears to keep people's wallet's tighter, but I'm glad selling season is back!
Hi I have a question. I had received an Easter Lily plant for Easter. How long is the Bloom supposed to last?
I'd think dipping them in a bucket and cleaning them now, would be your best and fastest route. It is for me anyway. Nothing dirty goes in to the cooler. 😊
To be fair, though, I'm much smaller scale than you are!!
I do thuink they could wash off in the field with a handless stand (the way No Till Growers does it...
hey guys! I was wondering if you thought of mixing fresh flowers with dried in the same bouquet? here in romania florists do this, and it looks very cool! also, in the spring, they sell pots of tulips, bunches of 3-5-7, depends on the pot size. this way you should be able to keep them longer and no need to pull them, as you simply sow directly in pots. hope this ideas inspire you
We've mixed fresh and dry before - I like the look, but the dried stems can make a mess of the water so it's better for event work
Omg! How do you clean your tulips 🌷? It takes so long.
I buy the bulbs from farms. So much cheaper for me. Have u considered selling the bulbs?
One more question what is the paint you wrote on your chalkboard with ?
what temperature do you store your tulips at?
I am curious about using even numbers of flowers in your bouquets. I am not a flower grower, but I do bouquets for my church very regularly. I always use the rule of three or five. Do you find that the even numbers work well when you get them in the vase?
Weren't you going to use Square space to make your online store? Did you get sidetracked by sickness and opening week?
Where is y’all big black cat?Beautiful tulips
Again, great video. Love seeing the process. The two hats Serena sported looked great on her. Could you share the brand or where to purchase?
The wool hat is tilly. My farm hats are often from Mountain equipment coop
Would you ever consider selling single tulips say for 3 each and let the customer pick them?