Heritage pumpkins of different shapes and colors will be available to decorate at Jamie Rohda's make-and-take event Sept. 26 and 27.
One of the wreaths created using dried flowers.
A butterfly on pincushion flowers in the gardens at Harvest Home Flowers.
Harvest Home Flowers owners Jamie and Norman Rohda have seven children between them and five grandchildren. Norman worked in agriculture-related industries for a number of years before going back to school at age 55 to become a respiratory therapist.
Harvest Home Flowers makes weekly flower deliveries to clients in Omaha and Lincoln and surrounding communities. During the height of growing season, owner Jamie Rohda might make 50 stops on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Garden clubs and group tours are welcome at Harvest Home Flowers by appointment. But owner Jamie Rohda stresses, “It’s not like touring Lauritzen Gardens. It’s a working flower farm.” Her tours are a chance to see their 1½ to 2 acres of garden plots, greenhouse and hoop houses.
Harvest Home Flowers is overflowing with lisianthus, zinnias, dahlias and other foliage throughout the summer.
The 11-acre farm north of Waverly, Nebraska, is a wholesale supplier to florists and designers in Omaha and Lincoln and surrounding communities. Jamie Rohda and her husband, Norman, devote 1.5 acres to blooms and fillers popularly used in special-occasion bouquets.
Jamie dries a lot of those flowers, too, which will be used Sept. 25 and 26 in the farm’s fall pumpkin and wreath make-and-take.
“There are a lot of cute things you can do with flowers and pumpkins,” she said.
She’ll have a selection of her rustic wreaths and a load of heirloom pumpkins from Found & Flora in Wahoo, Nebraska, for participants to decorate with a variety of dried materials from her gardens.
The registration fee for each two-hour session is $10. That covers flowers, supplies and a snack. Attendees can purchase as many wreathes or pumpkins as they would like to decorate, with prices ranging from $5 to $20 each. Sessions are scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Call 402-525-9025 to register, as space is limited.
Rohda said already decorated wreaths and pumpkins are also available for purchase. Those attending can walk around the farm while they are there.
marjie.ducey@owh.com, 402-444-1034
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September 20, 2020 at 08:00PM
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