What came first, the chocolate or the flowers??
Our farm is named after a love of chocolate and Marie's passion for gardening... as it turns out Marie already had a love of dark plants, thus our name tipped the scale toward specializing in "chocolate" flowers. But gardeners cannot live on chocolate alone so we grow many complementary plants as well, with an emphasis on rare, hard to find perennials. We have been here six years now and have more wonderful plans for the farm and for the shop. We are looking forward to creating a special nursery you will want to visit often.
Fun news article links about us can be found on the In The News page ...
If you have not signed up for our monthly newsletter, you can see the current newsletter below (AND benefit from the secret discount code) and sign up at the bottom of any page where it says SITE MAILING LIST...
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Please feel free to email us with any questions, comments or suggestions you might have.
Email: info@chocolateflowerfarm.com
Chocolate Flower Farm
5040 Saratoga Road
Langley, WA 98260
Phone: 360.221.2464
Fax: 413.383.8920
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DIRECTIONS:
Our Gift Shop is in downtown Langley on Whidbey Island and our farm is less than 1/2 mile West of town on Saratoga Road (the road closest to the water). Whidbey Island is 40 minutes North of Seattle.
Learn more about this charming Village by the Sea by visiting the village website http://www.visitlangley.com/
From Seattle take take I-5 North to Exit 189 and follow signs to the Whidbey Island/Mukilteo Ferry (a 15 minute crossing). Once off the ferry go approx 2.5 miles on Hwy 525 to Langley Road. Turn right onto Langley Road and follow it approx 3 miles to Langley. At the first stop sign in Langley take a right onto Cascade and follow it to First Street to visit our gift shop which is on the water side next to The Doghouse Tavern or to go directly to the farm take a left onto Second Street and keep going straight for exactly 1 mile since Second Street turns into Saratoga Road when you leave town. Our farm is on the left.
From Bellingham take I-5 South to Exit 230, and follow signs to Deception Pass Bridge. Cross the bridge to Whidbey Island. Drive down the Island on Highway 20, which then becomes Highway 525. Turn left at Bayview Road (at the light after you pass the Whidbey Telecom Building) and go approximately 3 miles to Langley. Once you pass the "Welcome to Langley" sign you will take the first left (DeBruyen) at the church and then the first left again onto Saratoga Road and the farm is 4/10ths of a mile up Saratoga Road. To go to the gift shop into town you would go straight instead of turning left onto Saratoga and the road winds into town and becomes First Street.
BELOW IS OUR MAY 2013 NEWSLETTER
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I'm getting the May Newsletter out first thing so that there is time to get all of the moms their Chocolate Flower Farm treasures. We get so many wonderful compliments on how well loved our products are as Mother's Day gifts and it feels great to be able to delight so many people.
We have our online gift certificates at 20% off through Mother's Day. The special word to use to receive the gift certificate discount is MOM (all upper case). It is an instant code that is emailed to you shortly after you place your order. Simply supply the gift certificate code to your loved one (or for yourself if you are clever) and they (or you) can use it online or in person at our store &/or nursery. They do not expire. Our newsletter code does not work in tandum with gift certificates since we only have a place for one code to be entered at a time on our website.
A favorite gift is our gift boxes filled with our chocolate treasures that are either pre-selected by us or you select (raspberry & chocolate jam, chocolate mint tea, candles, cocoa butter body cream, seeds, etc...). We love to make people smile and our "Box of Chocolates" always receives rave reviews. Also, we would like to thank you for thinking of us for your chocolate gift giving needs... we appreciate your support!!
Me showing off our gift boxes at our store..
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The Nursery is Now (Almost) Open
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OMG! Why did I plant so many display gardens?! The nursery will open this Saturday (May 4th) for the season for plant sales but I probably won't have the gardens looking lovely for a few weeks. If you are planning a trip up to Whidbey Island & Chocolate Flower Farm to stroll the grounds rather than just power shop for cool plants perhaps you will want to visit in the summer rather than the spring. Being a one woman show has its drawbacks. Volunteer garden helpers gladly accepted! I pay in Chocolate Dollars (made in my Chocolate Mint).
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Thank you all for your support when Alec went missing in South America!
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My daughter Alec has been on a 7 month adventure traveling through South America and went missing a couple weeks ago after her first attempt at solo hitchiking. She reconnected with us six days later and was fine but it was the longest six days of my life. Those of you who follow Chocolate Flower Farm on Facebook or who are local or who saw her story on Seattle's King 5 News and held your collective breaths with us as we searched for her I just wanted to say thank you so much for your support.
This is Alec in her signature victory handstand ... at Machu Picchu
And in Patagonia...
She expects to be home in June...
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Plant Availability & Shipping Update
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Each February I review the gardens and the propagation schedule to determine what plants I will have ready for spring shipping. This year I had two great successes and several failures and some miscalculations that affect the shipping of many plant orders this spring.
Two great successes are beautiful bumper crops of chocolate sweet peas and chocolate cherry tomatoes. Yay! They both look great and I am shipping them as quickly as I can. Whereas I have sold out of the majority of plants that I offered this spring there are plenty of sweet peas and tomatoes and that will make my nursery shoppers happy! Me too!
It is just me doing all the shipping this year and so if you have not yet received your order (I just began shipping plants this week) you can expect them to be shipped next week or you will receive an email letting you know the status of your plants. There are several crop failures from my seed starts and some of the divisions from the garden are taking longer than expected to root sufficiently enough to withstand shipping.
If your order includes chocolate cosmos I do not receive those until later this month so all Cosmos will ship toward the 3rd week of May.
Feel free to email me if you would like specifics on your order marie@chocolateflowerfarm.com
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And, of course, The Newsletter Discount Code ...
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Which is momsday (all lower case) and it is good for 10% off through May. Just insert the code name during checkout into the gift certificate/coupon box or mention it at the store.
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As always ~ we appreciate you and your support!
Cheers & WOOF!!
Marie, Alec & Naughty Nellie
Chocolate Flower Farm
5040 Saratoga Road
Langley, WA 98260
360.221.2464
info@chocolateflowerfarm.com
www.chocolateflowerfarm.com
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