Kim Brawn puts another bucket of tulip flowers into the climate controlled storage container Thursday at Pease Hill Farm in Monmouth. At right are crates of bulbs that haven’t yet been moved from cool dark storage to the warm bright grow room. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

After harvesting some pink tulips, Kim Brawn puts the crate back under light bulbs Thursday at Pease Hill Farm in Monmouth. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Kim Brawn harvests tulip flowers Thursday at Pease Hill Farm in Monmouth. Kim and Chris Brawn, with help from their son Carter, have been running Pease Hill Farm, a cut flower farm located in Monmouth, for three years and this is the first year they’ve tried growing tulips indoors. Last fall they bought and planted 15,000 tulip bulbs. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Kim Brawn harvests tulip flowers Thursday at Pease Hill Farm in Monmouth. Kim and Chris Brawn, with help from their son Carter, have been running Pease Hill Farm, a cut flower farm located in Monmouth, for three years and this is the first year they’ve tried growing tulips indoors. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Kim Brawn harvests tulip flowers Thursday at Pease Hill Farm in Monmouth. Kim and Chris Brawn, with help from their son Carter, have been running Pease Hill Farm, a cut flower farm located in Monmouth, for three years and this is the first year they’ve tried growing tulips indoors. Last fall they bought and planted 15,000 tulip bulbs. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Colorful picked tulip blooms are seen in a climate-controlled shipping container Thursday at Pease Hill Farm in Monmouth. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Kim Brawn puts harvested tulip flowers into a bucket Thursday at Pease Hill Farm in Monmouth. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Kim Brawn carries freshly harvested tulips so that her son Carter can smell them Thursday at Pease Hill Farm in Monmouth. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

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