Flying Frog Farm’s 2012 Hosta Catalog
Flying Frog Farm owner: Marsha Ansevics house: 515-961-3585
5148 155th Avenue website: www.flyingfrogfarms.com cell: 515-208-9002
Indianola, Iowa 50125 email:marsha@flyingfrogfarms.com SEASON :April 28-Sept.3
2012 HOURS ( these have changed so please read carefully!) :
10am – 5 pm Wednesday thru Sunday ( April 28 thru July 1 )
10am-5 pm Thursday thru Sunday ( July 5 thru September 3)
Mark your calendars!
Our open house dates for this season are: May 5 & 6, May 12 &13, May 19 & 20, May 26 & 27,
June 9 & 10, June 23 & 24, July 14 & 15, July 28 & 29 and August 25 & 26 with final sales of the season
Labor Day Weekend. Come join us on an Open House Weekend for refreshments and special prices!!!
We are growing just over 1000 different kinds of hosta and they are all described here! IT’S SUCH
A JOB LOOKING AT ALL THIS BEAUTY EACH DAY---BUT SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT! HA!
Our companion perennial offerings will be awesome this year! I hope you too love to add interest with lots of textures to your shady areas! From ligularia, hellebores, heucherella to ferns, brunnera, astilbe and more---some
of the newest varieties are here!
The gift shop will be full of garden themed items—jewelry, garden art, home décor items etc. They’re new—
they’re vintage—and we think they’re cool! Those stainless steel tools and great hoes are available too!
LOCATION: Our gardens are on twenty wooded acres approximately 10 miles south of Des Moines
(east onto Summerset Road off of Highway 65/69---Summerset Road is about 4 miles north of Indianola)
There are 3 blue county signs to lead you to our gate once you are on Summerset Road. We are on a
very long dead end road---a big green flying frog greets you at the gate!!
OUR GARDENS: Our hostas are all field grown and that makes for some nice root systems!! We have a
sizeable sales area with hundreds of plants potted and ready to go. It’s too busy many times to dig, but if we can we will. A call ahead to give us time to start digging is great if you know several that you are wanting. Come walk through the nearly three acres of shadehouses and display beds!! Don’t feel you have to stop and clean up for us- - come in gardening clothes! I’ll bet you’ll find us working!! We’ll try to greet you, but we sometimes are off in the ‘back 80’, so wander and enjoy the beds or sales area and we’ll say ‘hi’ as soon as we see you!!
GROUPS: Please call my cell (515-208-9002) if you’d like to bring a group out to the farm. We’d love
to have you! Red Hat Groups—garden clubs—clubs of all kinds! We need a pretty specific time as I usually have extra help available and parking needs to be a consideration. I still have “visions” of the two huge tour buses and the man hauling a tractor and the twenty or so cars that were already parked one
pretty afternoon! Ha! We made it all happen! This year we are asking $1 per person for the bus tours.
FARMER’S MARKET: Bruno will be at the Downtown Market from 7-12 on Saturdays (May-mid Aug)
Please call my cell to place an order that you’d like him to bring—a day or two notice is great!!
GIFT CERTIFICATES: Call for a gift certificate at any time or pick one up when you are at the farm.
They are available in any dollar amount. We mailorder throughout the U.S.. Personal checks and credit
cards are welcome.
RECYCLING POTS: We continue to ask for plastic pots that are larger than 4 inches and up to the size
that accommodates a small shrub. Trays and hanging pots are not very useful to us—sorry! These help us to continue to keep our prices low for you and helps out the earth a little too! Thanks!
ONE FINAL THOUGHT: Getting ready for the start of the season and hosting bus tours can be
daunting! If you live reasonably close by and would like to help us out during the season, I would be happy to “gift you” hostas in return. Give me a call if this sounds interesting to you!
