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Freedom Flowers specializes in growing heirloom, old-fashioned, and rare flower varieties treasured for their scent and beauty.

Available for purchase via Bouquet Club, seasonally at our Happy Valley Farmstand or DIY Bridal Buckets. Owned & Operated by Mom/Wife/Homemaker and Avant Gardener extraordinaire', Tracy Sundby. Passion for flowers and gardening runs deep in my veins, and goes back generations. This spring I dove headfirst into growing and sharing blooms to give me more freedom as a Mother to be at home with my son

. ‘Freedom Flowers’ was born, and I have never been more certain of knowing this is my path. Since March 2022 I’ve sold blooms locally in coffee shops/boutiques, gifted bouquets to family/neighbors and strangers, provided florals for elopements, and hosted flower-crown creating playshops. I’m humbled by the possibilities that have come my way since I started believing in myself. Visit our Seasonal (April-Oct) “Free Little Seed Library” and Farmstand on Happy Valley Road in Stanwood, WA. Growing flowers, sharing plant knowledge, educating community they can have a ‘green thumb’ and seeing beauty from seed to vase brings me immense gratification.

05/23/2026

And just like that it’s Memorial Day weekend. Feels like we blinked & the month is nearing a close. Thank you to everyone who supported us this Mothers Day by buying local flowers, and purchasing our Mums.

Decisions are set into motion as the field is ~75% planted. Now we await as the season unfolds. The anticipation is always very real checking plants each day, assessing their needs and making sure everyone grows up to be a responsible adult. I mean flower.

Here’s a roundup of May happenings:

📸1-5 There was flower crown making + sharing the craft with others 🐓Frequent chicken wrangling protecting freshly planted seedlings and a proper side quest directed by my hubs creatively repurposing a stump into seating.

📸6-7 I loved chatting Chrysanthemums will all of you at 3rd Annual Plat Sale! It was such a rad way to kick off the Month. Even talked my husband into dragging the Outpost trailer down to for a season debut. When my kids came to visit the sale my oldest son, 4yo said “Where’s Mommy? There are SO MANY Mommies!” Crazy plant ladies UNITE.

📸8-10 Picked the first Dahlia of the season from an experiment growing inside a friend’s heated greenhouse. Not many this year, but just fun to see a dahlia in spring. Enjoying the extra time this year to focus on planting as we have stepped away from spring flowers this season. The hope is this allows us to do what we love better. Everlastings and Chrysanthemums!

📸11-13 Plant progress, the strawflower & statice chugging along hopeful to see them soon. Many plants are wearing fuzzy white hats. It’s cottonwood season in the PNW. If you know you know!

📸14-15 If you’ve overwintered Mums and they are already two feet tall (like Mine) here is your encouragement to cut them back 1/3. If you don’t they will be so tall in the fall you’ll have regrets. Always hard but worth it promise. I need to do pinching across the board, then hit them with a 12-45-10 fertilizer before we switch to the June/July/August fertilizer regimen.

📸16-17 Red poppies are always here in time for Memorial Day. Reminder of all the lives lost. I hope you enjoy your Freedoms this weekend!

04/30/2026

I don’t always frolic around the farm in a flower crown. But when I do, the Lily of the Valley is blooming, the fern fronds are unfurling and I’ve decided to no longer fight with the dandelions. It’s almost May. Happy Spring!

04/27/2026

See you this Sunday May 3rd from 11am-3pm in Snohomish at the 3rd Annual Plant Sale 🪴

I’ll be bringing 20+ different varieties of Heirloom Chrysanthemums you can preview on our website. Pictured here are Purple Light, Cheerleader and Pumpkin. 🎃 These bloom into the fall and are a fabulous season extender to add color to the autumn garden.

I’ll also have a limited:

🌼Chocolate Scented Daisy - Yes they really smell like Chocolate when flowering
🌾 Strawflower 6-Packs & dried flower kits so you can grow & dry your own flowers this summer and enjoy into the fall
💐Fresh Lilac Bunches

See ya at the PLANT SALE! 🌱

04/07/2026

We’ve made a small shift in our upcoming spring plant sale plans, so here are all the ways you can get your hands on our heirloom chrysanthemums this season 🤍

🌿Presale goes live this Friday 4/10 at 10am—if you’ve got your eye on specific varieties, that’s your moment. *See details for on farm pickup in Stanwood.

🌼All varieties can be previewed on our website at www.freedomflowers.biz🌼The website shop will be locked midnight Thursday 4/9 until the sale goes live on Friday to enter inventory so make sure to preview early.

03/31/2026

Thanks for letting me consume your entire March with Mums. I hope you learned something! 🌼

📢I have a couple announcements for our email subscribers later today. Please watch your inbox if you’re signed up for our newsletter for important season updates (HINT it’s an April plant sale pivot) and details on securing your Chrysanthemums for 2026. I’ll share more on here later, but as always I want to share with our email community first 🪴

03/29/2026

🎈Today is my 39th Birthday and in celebration I’m going to give you thirty-nine Chrysanthemum tips! Just kidding I’m only going to give you two tips because that number is way too big 2️⃣😅

📋TIP 1: So you’ve gotten some of your Mums to overwinter outside. What’s all the fuss with the new cuttings if they are growing fine outside? Well, 2nd year & older Chrysanthemum roots don’t uptake fertilizer nearly as well, and they say bloom quality can really degrade over time. Those roots can also sometimes carry diseases. So at the end of each season we dig up our healthiest plants (stools), then take cuttings from them after they come out of dormancy. The new cuttings root systems will be much more healthy & able to soak up more of the fertilizer increasing bloom quality. I do still leave some overwintered Mums outside, and have noticed some flowers are smaller in size. I’m still experimenting with this theory and learning as I grow. Which brings me to my next tip. What should I be feeding my Mums throughout Spring?

TIP 2📋 Here is my real gift to you if you’re serious about these flowers—the secret sauce for fertilizer in March/April/May according to Evergreen Chrysanthemum Association standards. As always when fertilizing be sure your plants have good moisture before you add any fertilizer so you don’t burn roots. The goal in the early stages right now is to develop a strong root system, so a fertilizer low in nitrogen and high in phosphorus is great—don’t over do it. Once a week is enough. The Club recommends a 12-45-10 fertilizer through early spring.

🌼Here’s to learning to grow better Chrysanthemums and celebrating another year of this beautiful life!

03/27/2026

Let's talk PURPLE MUMS we hope to have for sale at our upcoming plant sale 💜

📸1 JEFFERSON PARK: Named after an alpine valley on the north side of Mt. Jefferson in Oregon & a Ted King 2012 intro (not considered an heirloom for this reason). A late-season bloomer with large, upward-facing lilac-pink incurve blooms. Reliable cut flower with long stems and knockout blooms. In our fields, it blooms late and pushed a solid November flush even outside.

📸2&3 PATRICIA GRACE: Light pink quill with long stems that pumps out blooms. Shows lavender tones in our field likely due to temperature. Produces downright striking flowers + has overwintered reliably for us for three seasons. Mid-season bloomer.

📸4&5 BRYAN KIRK: A reflex mum where florets curve downward and overlap, forming a bloom with a slightly flattened top. Medium height & late bloomer, typically in November. Still being evaluated in our fields & unfortunately didn't snag a great photo but I think still worth growing.

📸6 KOKKA BUNMI: Lavender-pink incurve blooms with a purple reverse and a soft silvery shimmer. Classic Japanese form with trailing florets and twisted tubular petals. Tall, vigorous plants -very productive. Earlier bloomer. Can get pretty tall—pinch later in the season to manage height.

📸7&8 PURPLE LIGHT: An anemone mum with rich purple petals. Produces abundant sprays on tall, sturdy stems. Early to mid-season bloomer. Often described as a purple sport of First Light, though lineage is not clearly documented as is often the case with Mums.

📸9 FIRST LIGHT: Lavender anemone-type with soft petals and a puffy center. Grown as sprays makes a great cut flower. Reliable stems +great vase life. Early bloomer with an easy, productive growth habit.

📸10 Hope to have available in 2027 PURPLE PRINCE: A British exhibition cultivar introduced in 1938 by Len Shoesmith of Mayford Nursery in the UK and grown within the Evergreen Chrysanthemum Association ever since. Largely out of circulation, it remains a rare link to historic UK mum breeding. I hope to write a blog on this with a more history - Character limits on here really limit story telling!

03/22/2026

🌿Right now I’m in the middle of a bit of a mum classification debacle. Trying to sort through both the UK and U.S. systems for inventory and deciding what is best suited for you guys to follow along. I'm going to be real - it's making my head hurt a little. The local Mum club I'm part of is the *only* club remaining in the US still using the UK Class system, primarily for show purposes. This makes me wonder which information I should use to best steward these varieties into new gardeners hands.

🌼So for now, I’m going to keep things simple and just tell you what actually matters: how they grow, form, and bloom time. Basically will be telling you their classification in long form, which for the average gardener is going to make the most sense anyways. Today I'm highlighting 4 chrysanthemums that we will have at our upcoming plant sales. 3 unlikely & overlooked Mums, and 1 that is an absolute staple for the cut flower grower.

📸1 Late Season Mixed Bouquet picked in November. Can you spot two of the varieties we are highlighting today? [Golden Pinwheel & Bronze Fleece]

📸2&3 Mancetta Sunset blooms mid-season and grows on the shorter side. An anemone form introduction from the U.K., that has unique bronze petals with a glowing & cheerful yellow center. Grown as sprays this is a great, reliable cut flower.

📸4 Golden Pinwheel is a mid-season blooming spoon and is rather unruly in it's growth habitat. This bloom was actually on the cover of the 2010 King Mums catalog because it's rather unusual. Spoons do not usually lend themselves to being used as a cascade. The flower may be sprays or can be trained as a cascade, which explains it's wild nature. I really like what she added in arrangements and design work. Delicate. Magical. Worth taking a second look at.

📸5&6 Firefall comes in mid to late. This anemone variety closed out late October and rolled well into November in our fields. Bright red blooms with deep bronze centers and let me tell you, she literally bloomed like crazy for me. Whether you let it cascade with it's flexible stems, or grow it upright there will be lots and lots of flowers.

📸7 Bronze Fleece. I saved one of my favorites for last and plant to grow out her sport "Pink Fleece" this season. She kicks things off rather early late September but blooms for many weeks. Bronze Fleece is a a wildly productive heirloom with warm terracotta petals and pumpkin-orange centers. Long, flexible stems that scream to be arranged. Must have for designers or cut flower growers.

These Chrysanthemums can be purchased at our upcoming plant sales. Follow along for more information as the dates get closer 🌱

📍 April 23–26
Floral Current Plant Sale
Stilly Valley Flower Farmers
Arlington Innovation Center

📍 May 3 | 11–3pm
SnoCo Flower Collective Plant Sale
Flower Farmer Girls — Snohomish

03/18/2026

🤏🏼🍀 In light of yesterday’s holiday and the fact my husband actually pinched me for not wearing green before I could even have my coffee *gasp* Today’s Mum topic is; Pinching. Also known as stopping your plants. You’ll hear Mum growers talk about this often but why do we do it and how?

Image 1 shows a plant ready for pinching. I’ll cut or “pinch” off with my thumb & forefinger the growth after the 2nd or 3rd set of leafs, above the node. Yes you can save these tops to propagate new plants and quickly build a collection. Addicting and dangerous also yes. I like to live life on the edge of having way too many plants 🪴🦹🏼‍♀️

Image 2 shows a newly pinched Chrysanthemum. Intimidating to do at first but it’s a must in my experience. I didn’t do it the first year and my plants grew straight up with few laterals and not as many flowers. 👎🏼

Images 3 and on show plants during their various growing periods after they have been stopped. The goal right now is to have short, compact leafy plants. Like really short. They don’t look like much now but you just wait until late summer & into fall! 🤯

Something else noted on stopping plants mentioned by a seasoned grower in our local Mum club. It is believed that during the last two stops, often done in May & June, if done approximately 10 days apart it allows the petals to open to their entirety increasing the chances of growing out those giant show stopping blooms. Something to mess around with this season I suppose 🌼

Address

2824 196TH Street NORTHWEST
Stanwood, WA
98292

Telephone

+14252316766

Website

http://www.freedomflowers.biz/

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