ABOUT OUR FLOWERS

Bluems at Burdick Blueberries is our new brand of farm fresh, local flowers. We grow our Bluems alongside our 40 acre blueberry field in East Otto, New York. Burdick Blueberries has decades of history of growing pick-your-own flowers and ready-to-go bouquets. Our passion is garden-style florals, —natural, fragrant and abundant.

Beautiful seasonal blooms are the essence of summer! We hope you can visit our garden and take in the beauty, see and hear the birds and pollinators busy at work. Experience the joy of picking your own bouquet, quickly or leisurely. We supply flower snips and take home containers. Ready-to-go bouquets are also available at our farm store and have the advantage of being farm fresh with the longest vase life possible.

Our garden includes many unique varieties of sunflowers, perennials, and annuals. You’ll find asters, asclepias, echinacea, delphinium, larkspur, yarrow, cosmos, zinnias, lisianthus, dahlias, ageratum, lilies, phlox, strawflower, scabiosa, stock, and more. We also grow unusual textural fillers and foliage such as artemesia, cress, grasses, statice, celosia and herbs.

We care deeply about our environment and use only organic and sustainable farming practices in the garden. We support the local, seasonal flower movement and supply blooms as much as we can to local florists such as Flowers By Nature. We sell bouquets through Art’s Cafe in Springville, NY, and provide a limited amount of arrangements for weddings, events and special order.

We are inspired by the beauty of each season in the garden. However, there is additional purpose for growing flowers on the farm: sustaining beneficial insects who each spring perform the enormous task of pollinating 40 acres of blueberry blossoms!

Pick-Your-Own Bluems

Walk through our flower garden and cut your own seasonal mixed bouquet. The pick-your-own garden is open during the blueberry season with the same hours. Look for post-season hours here as well as workshops and events. Explore the drop-down menu to read how to pick-your-own flowers at our farm.

There are different sized containers to choose from at the check-out area in our Retail Shed. Before heading across the parking lot to the garden we’ll add water to your container to keep stems from wilting as you pick.
Borrow and return snips to the cashier at The Shed. Help yourself to floral food packets for your bouquet there.
Please let us if you’d like only one variety of flowers as price and availability may vary. For example: Dahlias, Lisianthus. We have a wide variety of flowers for you to cut.
Tour the garden and start creating your bouquet!
Feel free to tour all of the flower garden, but observe the occasional no cut markers. These may be placed to reserve flowers for our market bouquets which require long stems, or perhaps for an upcoming wedding. No cut markers may also be placed to help you avoid cutting a variety too early and will consequently not hold up well in the vase. It also protects new perennials that need time to mature.
Please let us know if you have questions about any of the flowers or their care.
Cut deeply for longer stems if you’d like as long as you leave about 3-4 pairs of leaf nodes at the bottom of each stem. This allows the plant to put up new stems and keep blooming.
On dahlias and other tall plants consider cutting the length of your forearm when possible.
Shorter length is okay too.
1. When cutting stems it is helpful to cut above 3-4 leaf nodes at the bottom of a stem. This allows the plant to put up new stems and keep blooming.
2. Strip leaves from lower half of stem before placing in container to keep blooms hydrated and allow more room in your container. You can drop leaves into the flower beds or in the path.
3. Do the wiggle test on flowers, such zinnias, to see if they are ready to cut. To test, wiggle the stem of the flower you’d like to cut. If it feels wobbly, it is not ready yet and will likely wilt in the vase.
Remember to return your snips to The Shed and pick up your floral food packet.
Keep your stems in a cool place out of the sun. Allow them to rest a bit before arranging again.
Remove leaves that will be below water level and use a very clean vase. This prevents bacteria from clogging stems and causing them to die prematurely.
Rinse vase, add fresh water and trim stems every 3 days to help to keep flowers healthy.
Use a floral food packet to help keep water fresher. Some flowers such as zinnas can make vase water “dirty” or brown. Floral food packets can slow this down a bit and help keep flowers fresher.