 About Full Bloom Farm
 Full Bloom Farm is located on Lummi Island, near Bellingham, Washington. It is owned and run by Elisabeth and Mark Marshall, who have lived on the island for 21 years. The 14 acre farm includes a pond, an orchard, a flock of chickens for fresh eggs and a vegetable garden. It's a short walk to the beach and is a birdwatcher's paradise. The award-winning gardens are open to the public every Memorial Day weekend during the Lummi Island Artists Studio Tour, throughout the blooming season — early May through the end of June and year around by appointment. The cottage and apartment are available for vacation rentals.
The address, map and directions to Lummi Island and Full Bloom Farm can be found on our Contact page.
Growing and Selling Peonies at Full Bloom Farm
by Elisabeth Marshall
(originally written for the American Peony Society, June 2006)
Full Bloom Farm is the culmination of my lifelong love of gardening and fascination with plants. I discovered peonies rather late in life after many years of gardening. The most important events that led to that discovery were my moving to the Pacific Northwest, where peonies thrive, and buying acreage suitable for growing them. Finding my plant muse came after I raised three children, worked as a nurse and home-schooled for many years. When our last child was approaching the end of high school, I was able to focus on growing peonies.
Full Bloom Farm was established in 2001. I started with a planting of about 120 herbaceous peony roots bought from a variety of growers. The following year I planted over 100 peonies again. I have planted at least 150 roots each year since then. We now have a web site and an active local market, stretching to Seattle and Canada and throughout the U.S..
This fall I had a root sale which turned out to be much bigger and better attended than I had expected. The gardeners who came to the sale expressed their fond memories of the peonies their mothers and grandmothers grew – in Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Connecticut, Maine, Canada. Some have peonies that were given them by relatives who brought them when they moved west. Others have yearned for these plants that herald the warmth and lengthening days of late Spring in their hometowns. . .
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