You don’t see a lot of flowers on a flower farm if it’s run right.
“We cut the flowers three days before they open,” explained Rebecca Perry, owner of Sabatia Flower Farm in Marstons Mills, West Barnstable and Osterville. Opening the door to a greenhouse devoted to growing ornamental lilies at her Marstons Mills location, she shows off rows and rows of lush plants whose stems are topped with luminous soft, bulb-like pale pink buds.
To see them in full blossom, you can stop at her roadside stand on Oak Street in West Barnstable, where savvy lily fans know to come by early.
“Every day we harvest 100 to 300 stems,” Perry said, noting Sabatia is known for the high quality of its lilies, prized by the florists on its customer list. “We grow 22,000 lilies a year to sell,” she said, noting proudly that she has heard people say her lilies are the best around.
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