Flower fields

This is how I spent my weekend:

These are Giant Tecolote Ranunculus…es. Ranunculi?

I had actually never seen these flowers in person before, but apparently the farm here in Carlsbad grows like 90% of these flowers in the country. They were so exquisite I was just in heaven. The petals are incredibly dense, yet paper thin, and they have a lovely subtle fragrance.

The Flower Fields also grows incredible roses, poinsettias of all varieties, and glorious sweetpeas.

They actually created a maze out of the sweetpea, full of little signs giving you directions and then teasing you when you followed them straight to a dead end.

Don’t you love all the little ladies in their sunhats. They ended up splitting into a couple groups and shouting instructions to each other to try to find their way out.

I was so thoroughly charmed by this place, 50 acres of flowers in the middle of a busy resort town, that I caught myself grinning all day long. The best part about the day was the knowledge that since this place exists about 5 miles from my new house, all these wonderful blooms will grow in my very own yard. My mind is full of sweetpeas climbing up the side fences and roses in the back and ripping out the sensible shrubs in our little front swath of land and filling it to the brim with a riot of these flowers. I just hate silk flowers, so I love love love the idea of having a yard full of flowers I can spread throughout my house.

Even the kitties like the idea: