Photo: Suzanne Sausville (WBZ)
NORWELL, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — A flower farm in Norwell is reaping the benefits of a rainy Massachusetts summer.
The frequent downpours that hit the state in June and July have turned the seven acres at Cross Street Flower Farm into a multicolored paradise.
"We are having our best season yet, best crop yet," owner Nikki Bartley told WBZ NewsRadio Saturday. "We are fortunate our fields are upland, so they’re not wet. We’re in full sun and our soil is well draining."
Customers at Cross Street can cut their own bouquets of zinnias, marigolds, sunflowers, celosia, gold amaranth, and other flowers that benefited from all the rain.
"Dahlias just can’t get enough water, and they’ve actually been struggling the past few seasons with the droughts that we’ve had, but this year I can already tell we’re having a bumper crop," Bartley said.
Bartley told WBZ that there was so much rain this season, they have not even used their irrigation system yet.
"We received a grant from the USDA to install an irrigation system on all seven acres, and we depend on it heavily during drought seasons, dry seasons, but this year we haven’t even turned it on," said Bartley.
WBZ's Suzanne Sausville (@WBZSausville) reports.
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