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TIMBERVIEW FLOWER FARM TIMBERVIEW Flower Farm is located on 20 rolling acres northwest of Evansville, IN. Found at 4501 Orchard Road, it is owned by Floyd and Mary Ellen Damm and run with lots of help from family and friends. Established in the early 1980’s, the farm has evolved into a year-round flower business. Late winter through April, seeds are started and plans are made for the year. Classes using dried flowers are held, arrangements and dried flower bouquets are made for the coming season and transplanting of seedlings follows. The farm specializes in tuberoses, zinnias, cockscomb, celosia, and many other garden flowers. Seasonal flower availability begins in mid-May and continues through October. Flowers are available directly from the farm, at local farmer’s markets and area Schnucks grocery stores during the season as well as at River City Mercantile where a year round display is found. Timberview is your area source for fresh garden flowers for weddings, parties, home and other special events. They have over twenty years of experience in growing flowers, and they do all the work from seeding to delivery. It is a family run business with help from grandkids and more. Their professionally designed coolers assure the best
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environment for flowers as they pick them. Within a few days (or the same day) they are in your home or event to enjoy! You can order their flowers in bulk to put together yourself or you can have them do your arrangements to your specification. They do work with area florists – both in providing fresh garden flowers to them and in obtaining from them varieties that do not grow well here but that are important to a customer’s design. Timberview offers a selection of dried flowers – the perfect answer to a more permanent arrangement from “Mother Nature.” They personally dry hydrangea, cockscomb, celosia, gomphrena, yarrow, lavender and some grasses. They work in conjunction with another flower farm to have additional dried flower varieties, which do not grow well in our area. They also offer classes – March and October-November where you can make an arrangement and for the summer months invite groups to tour the flowers and make their own fresh arrangement. At Timberview, they also sell bulbs and rent vintage items for weddings and other special occasions. This is a working farm so there are no specific hours. Appointments/phone calls are needed to come out or for certain bouquet needs. To learn more about Timberview Flower Farm, visit: http:// www.timberviewflowerfarm.com or www.facebook.com/ TimberviewFlowerFarm
