Specialties
Manchester Blooms is a native annual direct seed sow farm. We only grow nothing fussy full sun annual flowers. Our most prolific flowers are zinnia, sunflowers, cosmos, marigold, and cornflower. We grow a wide variety of wildflowers that bloom in different times of our season. Since our inception, we have been hyper focused on value, affordability, and accessibility. We purposely choose flowers for their ease of growing, their love of full sun, and their ability to be grown in large volumes. This allows our guests to pick a lot of flowers at a very reasonable price.
U-Pick is open mid July through the end of September. Our Open U-Pick hours are available for drop in. Customers can stop in anytime 1/2 hour before closing during these hours. No appointment and no admission fee.
At MB, all our flowers are mass planted in giant beds. Many of our varieties are traditionally grown with 12-24 inches between each plant, grown in long single planted rows or in plastic. Growing in mass gives us the look of a park of flower gardens. It means we have thousands of blooms to choose from and it’s also what keeps our U-Pick affordable. Our customers get a lot of flowers for their money. While we get a few anomalies here and there, we do not have large sunflowers. We have hundreds of small and medium sunflowers in several colors, perfect for arranging.
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History
Established in 2019.
MB is situated on a 19.5 acre farm, that has been in Tom’s family for 2 generations before them. When Amy & Tom acquired the farm it was a Hay field. Hay is a crop that requires very labor intensive, hot work. The family wasn’t passionate about doing Hay. Amy had worked in sales management, marketing and real estate since 1993 & had competed in the Manchester Community Fair for about a decade . She won Homemaker Champion twice & Reserve Champion 7 times. A signifigant percentage of her ribbons were in floriculture, recognizing both her beautifully grown blooms and her talent for arranging. She wanted to build a business at the Bethel Church property, but felt strongly about this project being a shared space. It was important to create a spot where all could come, unwind, and enjoy. When all those factors came together, a U-Pick flower farm checked all the boxes. Our mission became: To encourage creativity, curiosity, and positive mental
health through a connection with nature.
Meet the Business Owner: Amy P.
Amy worked in sales management, marketing and real estate from 1993- 2018, where she developed an infectious ethusiasm for building relationships and customer satisfaction. Amy competed in the Manchester Community Fair for about a decade (2010-2018). She won Homemaker Champion twice and Reserve Champion 7 times. A signifigant percentage of her ribbons were in floriculture, recognizing both her beautifully grown blooms and her
talent for arranging. She wanted to build a family business at the Bethel Church property, and felt strongly about this project being a shared space. It was important to create a
spot that families share, unwind, and enjoy. She never wanted it to become fussy or rule based and embraced a less is more business model. When all those factors came together, a U-Pick flower farm checked all the boxes. The MB mission became: To encourage creativity, curiosity, and positive mental health through a connection with nature.