2011 HOSTA CATALOG
Flying Frog Farm owner: Marsha Ansevics season: April 30-August 28
5148 155th Avenue website: www.flyingfrogfarms.com hours: 10a.m.-5p.m.
Indianola, Iowa 50125 email:marsha@flyingfrogfarms.com Wednesday thru Sunday
(closed Mondays and
515-961-3585 Tuesdays)
cell: 515-208-9002 **** closed July 4****
We’re looking forward to a beautiful growing season with warm breezes and just enough rain .HA! The hostas will be big and healthy after all the record rain we received in 2010! We are growing just over 1000 different kinds of hosta! This catalog contains over 600 descriptions. Our additional list of 379 more can be picked up at the farm, requested by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope or found on our website.
Perennials that are companion plants in the shade are a fun part of our nursery business. Newer varieties of ferns, hellebores, astilbe, tiarella and pulmonaria are some of those available. I continue to find lovely
items for the gift shop that are “garden themed”----new and vintage home décor, jewelry with dragonfly, rabbits, frogs, leaves……and of course the popular stainless steel trowels,weeders and markers!!
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! We need a pretty specific time as I usually have extra help available and parking needs to be
a consideration. The day we had 2 tour buses and a man hauling a tractor was memorable! Ha!
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!
SOMETHING NEW AND EXCITING !!!!! SURE HOPE YOU’LL COME!
WE’RE HAVING A BARN SALE(or two) ON MAY 13,14,15 AND JUNE 3,4,5 9 A.M.-5 P.M.
There will be a link on our website to see a more complete listing of sale items, but here’s a taste of what we have:
vintage wicker chairs—painted furniture—birdhouses—quilts—unique decorator items—oak tables—found
objects—estate jewelry—a Mosquito Magnet—copper topped table—Windsor chairs—garden accents—linens—
dolls—fabric(décor and quilting)—fancy hammock—small wall quilts—antiques--sterling jewelry and on and on
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!
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