Rooted in a love for flowers
Our story
As long as I can remember, my grandmother had the most beautiful edible garden with apricots, plums, blackberries, and strawberries mixed in amongst her roses, camellias, birds of paradise, and geraniums. Growing up in Keller, TX, I was given free reign over our family vegetable patch. I soon surrounded it with a flower bed complete with climbing roses and a corner herb garden. Not long after I left for college, the family moved to Argyle and began collecting bearded iris.
The idea to hatch The Little Fleur Farm began in 2020 when the fall division of the bearded iris yielded over a thousand rhizomes! The property already had extensive flower beds, a large vegetable garden, and a small orchard. In 2021, we added several large growing plots for annuals before officially launching the farm in March 2021.
Our Flowers
We have two main planting seasons here in North Texas, late summer / early fall and early spring. Fall plantings have to weather the variable Texas winters along with our penchant for spring hail in order to provide beautiful early spring blossoms. These include wildflowers such as bluebonnets and hardy annuals like snapdragons. Spring plantings have to be hardy enough to withstand our Texas summers. Zinnias, sunflowers, celosia, and cosmos are always top of that list.
Flowers are harvested the day prior to market to ensure the freshest product for our customers. Bouquets last on average two-weeks as long as they are regularly watered. This of course varies with the specific varieties of flowers present.
If flowers are too short for arrangements, we press them and make them into unique pressed flower cards not letting any blooms go to waste!
Our Jams
We love experimenting with different flavor combinations and sharing them with you! Mom and I cook up all our jams in small batches.
While we have several flavors available year-round, we also cook up some local flavors seasonally. We make a trip down in the spring and the fall to the northern Houston area to pick blueberries and wild muscadine grapes. While passing through Fairfield, we pick up fresh peaches. We also travel out East to Edom in the spring for blackberry picking. No travel needed for our chickasaw plums, mexican plums, or mustang grapes as they grow wild on the property and in the area.
Upcycling
We upcycle glass jars/bottles/vases. If you have any that you’re planning on throwing out or recycling, please consider dropping them off at our booth at any of the farmer’s markets.