I spent the day Friday touring the fields and coolers of a prolific cut-flower grower up in the Skagit Valley with my oldest daughter, Erin, also a cut-flower grower.  With her as my guide, I took in row after row of this master grower’s tulips and jonquils, and Leucojum in bloom.  Then there were the Narcissus and Muscari . . . and Scilla, and rows and rows of and young lilys and budding Alliums, and an entire field of Eremerus that have grown, thus far to about a foot tall.

Jan is both magician and a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge when it comes to growing flowers from bulbs.

So much life and beauty, so many flowers to capture the imagination and leave one in a state of eager anticipation; with veritable seas of blooms yet to come. 

Here are a few peeks from our adventure.