Flying Frog Farms
5148 155th Avenue owner: Marsha Ansevics
Indianola, Iowa 50125 website: www.flyingfrogfarms.com
515-961-3585 season: May 1 thru September 6 (F.Y.I.—we do fall work all of
September – you could call ahead or take a chance on
catching us here)
cell: 515-208-9002 hours: WEDNESDAY thru SUNDAY 9a.m. to 5 p.m.
(CLOSED MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS !!)
email: marsha@flyingfrogfarm.com
*OPEN HOUSE SCHEDULE: May 1,2,3; May 8,9,10;May 15,16,17;May 22,23,24 and May 29,30,31; June 12,13,14; July 17,18,19; August 21,22,23 and 28,29,30.
*every week there will be plants that are on sale here at the farm, but you can enjoy LOTS of sale prices and refreshments with us on open house weekends.
LOCATION: Our gardens are on twenty 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 blue county signs to lead you to our gate
once you are on Summerset Road.
OUR OFFERINGS: We are growing just over 900 different hosta cultivars; perennials such
as ferns, helleborus, sedums, brunnera, spiderwort, daylilies, lamium,
ligularia and ajuga. Our gift shop is full of fun items (many with garden
themes) including new and vintage home décor, birdhouses, antiques,
amber and silver jewelry, charming children’s items, wonderful stainless
steel trowels and garden accents. Gift certificates are available in any dollar amount and we mailorder throughout the U.S. We accept checks and credit cards.
HELLO EVERYONE!! 2008 was a great year for us and we thank you for your business. Bruno
and I have made a few changes for 2009, so READ CAREFULLY please! Ha! All of our 900 plus varieties of hostas are described in this new “chubbier” catalog---it will take a couple of evenings to read! Some cultivars are in limited supply so call or write if something NEEDS to be saved for you!
Our plants are all field grown and that makes for some nice root systems! Our sales area will have
hundreds of plants dug and ready for you. 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 3 acres of shadehouses and display beds. With all the moisture we’ve had the
hostas are especially lush! Don’t stop to clean up for us---come in gardening clothes! I’m sure you
will 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!
WE WILL BE CLOSED ON MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS THIS SEASON. We think we need
to ‘play’ a little more. Bruno will again be downtown at the Farmer’s Market each Saturday from
7 until noon. We appreciate your business downtown so much. So many friends stop by and you
know I’m jealous because I miss visiting with you at our wonderful downtown market. I’m out at the
farm with fun gardeners too on Saturday mornings----now, if I just had some breakfast pizza and
warm rice pudding! HA! If you want Bruno to bring certain hostas on Saturdays (say a lot of blues
for example) please call my cell a day or two ahead. We pack orders every week, so it’s not a problem.
Bruno has decided NOT TO ATTEND THE VALLEY JUNCTION MARKET. Sorry to dis-
appoint our regular customers there.
We continue to welcome garden clubs, Red Hat events, master gardener groups and tour buses
from near and far-----what fun! Please call if your group needs to come out some evening after
5 p.m. and we will try to accommodate you. I must have the best job in the world! I can talk
‘gardening’ every day with just WONDERFUL people!
We continue to ask for plastic pots that we can recycle---larger than 4 inches please and up to
shrub size. Thanks for all that you have brought out-------it helps us keep our prices lower and I
hope we’ve helped out the earth a little too! THANKS!
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT!! Getting ready for certain events such
as opening day, open house and bus tours can be daunting! I decided that I need a ‘few good men’.
(yes, Bruno served in the Marines) My thought is that if you live reasonably close by, love hostas
and can’t seem to get enough, I would like to hear from you. I would like to offer ‘credits’ for an
hour of work that you could use towards hostas. It’s fun work out here----it just requires time and
that’s where it can get tricky-----the sun goes down!!! Ha)
“IN THE DEPTHS OF WINTER, I FINALLY LEARNED THAT WITHIN ME THERE LAY
AN INVINCIBLE SUMMER.” Albert Camus
Enjoy making new plans for your entry, your garden -----that funny corner in the back!! Come
out if you can. There will be ‘sale items’ every week and I’d enjoy discussing your plans with
you.
P.S. My laptop ‘crashed’ and I may have lost a few mailing addresses. If you know someone
who didn’t get a catalog, please have them call my cell. (515-208-9002) If any of you
no longer wish to receive a catalog I’d appreciate a quick call as well.
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