4weeks
Short run
$32 a week. Start any week through early September.
Price: $128
Lethbridge, AlbertaLate May to early October
Field-grown flowers, picked this week.
On the stand this week
- Sweet peas
- Sunflowers
- Zinnias
- First dahlias
Picked in the morning, in the buckets by nine. The list changes every few days; the month strip below shows what to expect when.
Coulee Row is a family flower farm on a few acres west of Lethbridge. We grow tulips, peonies, sweet peas, dahlias, zinnias and sunflowers in open rows, and sell them three ways: a weekly bouquet subscription, a self-serve farm stand, and buckets for people arranging their own wedding or party flowers.
Bouquet subscriptions
8weeks
Half a summer
$30 a week. Start any week from early June to late July.
Price: $240
12weeks
The whole season
$28 a week. Starts in the first half of June and runs to the first frost.
Price: $336
What you collect
A hand-tied bouquet of about 25 stems, whatever is best in the field that week: tulips and peonies in spring, sweet peas through June and July, then zinnias, sunflowers and dahlias until frost. Always some foliage. Wrapped in paper with a water bag for the drive home.
Pickup days
- At the farm, Thursday
- 4 to 7 pm, from the cooler by the stand.
- At the farm, Saturday
- 9 am to noon.
- Downtown, Wednesday
- 5 to 6:30 pm, in the lane behind 214 6 Street S.
Pickup only. We don't deliver or ship, and your run stays on the one day you choose.
Farm stand
Open daily, 9 am to 7 pm, from late May to the first hard frost.
Stand prices
- Tulips, bunch of 10$12
- Peonies, 3 stems$15
- Sweet peas, bunch of 15$10
- Zinnias, bunch of 12$10
- Sunflowers, 5 stems$10
- Dahlias, 5 stems$15
- The big jar, mixed bouquet$18
Not everything is out every week. If a bucket is empty, that flower is finished until the next picking.
How the honour box works
- Take what you like from the buckets, one bunch at a time.
- Check the price on the sign. Every bunch is tied and priced the same way each day.
- Pay in the grey box by the door: cash, with a tin of coins for change, or Interac e-transfer to stand@couleerow.example.
- Take a sheet of wrap and a water bag from the shelf, and close the cooler door behind you.
Find us
4410 Range Road 212, Lethbridge County, Alberta.
From Lethbridge, take Highway 3 west, turn north on Range Road 212 and drive about 3 km. The stand is the yellow one with a red barn behind it. Park on the gravel pad.
We are closed from the first hard frost until spring.
What's blooming
Tulips come first and dahlias stay until the frost. Weather moves every one of these by a week or two.
May
- Tulips for most of the month
- Peonies open in the last week
June
- Peonies until mid-month
- Sweet peas from mid-month
- Last of the tulips in the first days
July
- Sweet peas until the heat ends them
- Zinnias from the first week
- First sunflowers at month end
August
- Sunflowers in every row
- Zinnias at their fullest
- First dahlias open
September
- Dahlias at their best
- Zinnias and late sunflowers
- Mixed jars get bigger
October
- The last dahlias and zinnias, for as long as the nights stay above freezing
- The first hard frost ends the season and we close the stand
Scroll sideways for the whole season.
DIY flower buckets
For people arranging their own wedding or party flowers. You get loose, conditioned flowers and foliage in buckets, cut the morning you collect them, in the colours you ask for. We tell you how to keep them cool and how long to give yourself. We don't arrange or deliver.
Want bouquets, an arch or someone to set it all up? That is a florist's job, and a good local one is worth it. They are welcome to buy our flowers too.
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Small
Price: $65
About 40 stems
A dinner party, or one long table for eight.
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Medium
Price: $120
About 80 stems
A backyard wedding of 40: table pieces and a few hand-tied bouquets.
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Large
Price: $210
About 150 stems
A wedding of 100, with ceremony pieces and a head table.
Order 2 weeks ahead for sweet peas, zinnias, sunflowers and dahlias.
Order 4 weeks ahead if you want peonies or tulips. Their season is short.
Collect on a Thursday or Friday morning at the farm, cut that day.
Add a foliage bucket for $25. A $50 deposit holds your date once we confirm it.
Good to know
Something else on your mind? Call the farm line and leave a message in season, or write to hello@couleerow.example.
What if the weather hits a week of flowers?
Hail, wind and heat can each take a bed in an afternoon. If a flower you were counting on isn't there, we swap in the best of what is and tell you at pickup. If a storm leaves us short of a full bouquet, we credit that week to the end of your run. For buckets, we refund whatever we can't fill.
I missed my pickup. What now?
Your bouquet stays in the cooler until noon the next day. After that it goes on the stand. You can move one pickup per run to a later week if you tell us by Tuesday evening.
How long will they last in a vase?
Field-grown flowers aren't treated for shipping, so they open fast and smell like flowers. Plan on 5 to 7 days for tulips, peonies and dahlias, 4 to 5 for sweet peas, and 7 to 10 for zinnias and sunflowers. Use a clean vase, cut 2 cm off the stems, and change the water every second day.
Do you deliver or ship?
No. Everything is pickup only, at the farm or at the downtown spot on Wednesdays. Cut flowers travel badly, and we would rather hand them to you cold from the cooler.
Do you have flowers in winter?
No. Everything is grown outdoors, so the stand and the subscriptions run from late May to early October. There is nothing in the cooler in January.
Can you do the flowers for my wedding?
We sell buckets to people arranging their own. If you want designed bouquets, an arch or someone to set up, ask a local florist, and tell them they are welcome to buy flowers from us.
Ask for a spot
Tell us what you'd like and we'll write back with what is open. Dana, who runs the subscriptions, reads every request and answers it, usually within two days in season.
