How do I place an order?

Create a wholesale account at RootedFarmers.com Browse our inventory and add items to your cart. Select Pickup or Delivery Complete your order. Pay only upon inspection of your flowers.

Where can I see your products?

We update every Tuesday prior to opening for orders at 10 a.m.on Tuesdays. Our availability list is dynamic, and growers add items throughout the week.

Can I place an order at anytime?

Seasonally, orders open every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. ET, and close at noon on Monday.

How do I get my order?

Our growers will harvest Tuesday, and your order will be fresh and ready for pick-up and delivery each Wednesday. Pick-up Wednesdays at Historic Savage Mill. Add a note to your order what time you can pick up. Delivery is also available between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesdays for a fee of $15 within ten miles of Historic Savage Mill and $35 within 50 miles. Alternative delivery days can often be arranged. Contact us if Wednesday doesn’t suit your needs.

Where is Savage Mill?

istoric Savage Mill is centrally located in Howard County, Maryland. Our address is: 8600 Foundry Street Cotton Shed Building Savage, MD 20763 DIRECTIONS TO HISTORIC SAVAGE MILL From Baltimore and Points North South on I-95, or MD 295 (B/W Parkway) to MD 32 If on I-95, exit onto MD 32 East If on MD 295, exit onto MD 32 West (directions continue below) From Washington, DC and Points South North on I-95, or MD 295 to MD 32 If on I-95, exit onto MD 32 East If on MD 295, exit onto MD 32 West (directions continue below) From Frederick and Points West East on I-70 to MD 32 Exit onto MD 32 South (becomes “East” in Clarksville) (directions continue below) From Annapolis and Points East Take US 50 to I-97 North Exit onto MD 32 West (directions continue below) Exit onto US 1 South Right onto Howard Street Bear Left onto Baltimore Street (Howard Street ends) Left onto Foundry Street At traffic circle, take first exit into Savage Mill complex As you enter, our building is on the Left, and parking is on the right (terraced surface parking lot) We are in the “Cotton Shed Building,” which is to the left of the main building as you are facing it. Our entrance is on the Right (South) side of the Cotton Shed Building. If coming to pick up an order, you may park right next to the entrance to load.

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Herbs for Late Spring and Early Summer Bouquets

Need good-smelling, memory-building herbs for your fresh and dried bouquets? Late spring gardens in Maryland bring another round of unique scented greenery and color to your floral designs. Calendula, Feverfew, Soapwort, and Yarrow are on the docket this season.

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CALENDULA

Calendula (C. officinalis) are often called pot marigolds. Their bright yellow and orange blooms with 12”-18” stems are a hit in May and June bouquets. They have a sweet, citrusy scent. (Have you seen a calendula seed? Too cute-all curly and pokey.) Blooms should be cut when half opened and kept in cool water with a chlorine tablet to get a week vase life. Calendula are considered “dirty flowers” in the harvesting world and need chlorine in the water to keep it from getting murky. Another heads up: their stems are sticky, and they will get your snips and fingers gummy when you’re stripping and snipping. (But that’s OK because, as an herb, the oil is commonly used to treat eczema and psoriasis.) Calendula heads, when fully opened, can be dried using a dehydrator and their petals use for flower confetti!

FEVERFEW

Feverfew/Matricaria (Chrysanthemum parthenium) is a perennial often used in the garden to repel insects, but florists cannot resist their filler-flower talents and citrus scent. It used to be that all feverfew options looked like tiny daisy sprays on long stems, but now there are a half a dozen different types with and without the daisy look. Magic Single has the traditional daisy look; one or two layers of bright white petals around a gold center. Snow Ball and Virgo are all-white pompom versions. Sunny Ball sports only bright yellow buttons. Tetra White has many layers of white surrounding small orange centers in contrast to the Magic Lime Green which is almost all soft yellow centers and bears only a small halo of white.

Feverfew, like calendula and yarrow, needs a few drops of bleach (or a bleach tablet) to get a 7-day vase life. On the plus side, it dries well for wreaths and everlasting bouquets. Just bundle the stems and turn them upside down in a cool, dark, dry place.

SOAPWORT

Oh, baby, baby! Soapwort a.k.a. Saponaria has a slight mock orange scent. It can be grown as a hardy annual (Saponaria vaccaria) or as a perennial (S. officinalis.) It will reseed like crazy, so after growing this your first year, you will find yourself with a patch raring to go the next spring. The annual version looks like baby’s breath with small rounded petals sprays, whereas the perennial version looks wilder with longer, thinner petals. Both come in white and pink. The leaves are thin, the stems are long and straight. If you like that dainty look, Saponaria is for you. An herbal benefit: the juice from the fresh leaves will help itching skin conditions!

YARROW

An umbel flower, yarrow (Achillea millefolium) comes in white in the wild versions (very common in Maryland) but muted pink, peach, cream, rose, and lavender plus bright red, cerise, and pink in the hybrid ones. Cloth of Gold (A. filipendulina) has golden-yellow flower heads and is recommended for drying. Yarrow is easy to dry: snip any of the above with wide open faces, strip the foliage, and hang by their long stems in bunches. Farmers pick yarrow for fresh bouquets when they can see pollen. Any sooner and the flowers will wilt and/or not dry properly. The lanceolate leaves have a nice spicy scent. Vase life (again with a chlorine tab) is around 10 days- nice!

Every month I will try to add a few more herbs that have a nice scent, work in cut-flower bouquets, and can be dried for fall and winter creations. Using herbs is just another way of supporting your local flower farmers at Chesapeake Flower Exchange and making unique and scented designs for your Maryland and area customers.

Diane Lutz

For the last six years I have enjoyed selling my home-grown flowers to friends in the neighborhood and at the farmers market. I have connected with several other growers and they have become my best friends. I am thrilled to be part of the Chesapeake Flower Exchange and look forward to these coming years out in the flower field.

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