28/08/2026
The first tulip harvest of the season deserves its own celebration 🎉
It’s the start of the frantic part of our flower year - our tulips get harvested twice a day and need to be dealt with straight away. Luckily the season starts with a trickle of tulips before the main crop arrives in what feels like a deluge.
We’re also running about 3-4 weeks later than our crop last year. We started planting the bulbs about a week later, and our Winter has been much colder than we are used to here in the north, so they have been keeping us waiting.
Thanks to all of you who have messaged looking for where you can buy our tulips. It’s great to know so many locals are wanting to get their hands on locally grown flowers. We’re still a few days (maybe a week) from having excess tulips that we can sell in bunches (because we have a few standing orders that get top priority)
The best way to stay in the loop about where and how to purchase our tulips is to sign up to our email list. We promise not to pester you with emails - maybe 1 or 2 a week for the next 6 weeks while we have tulips to brighten up your life. We don’t ship our tulips, so obviously you need to live (or work) in the Warkworth/Matakana region (or have family that does - they make a great surprise treat!)
Here’s the link to sign up (or you might have to copy and paste this into your browser) http://flora-flowers-tulips.subscribepage.io
P.S. the first variety we have flowering is ‘Avant Garde’ - it opens to a dreamy pale lemon, and is a peony type with plenty of petals.
