Walking through the fall garden, the flowers are gone with a few remaining blooms. The stems have begun to brown becoming perfect fire-starter material. The one joy to find left from the cut flower garden are the seeds, transporting us into the next growing season. Harvesting and saving cut flower seeds not only brings joy …
August is filled with long, sunny days brightening up our lives with its warm sunshine. To bring that summertime energy indoors, yellow flowers can brighten up a home. Yellow cut flowers for August come in all shapes from focals, disks, spikes, and fillers. Yellow Sunflowers for Cut Flowers For mid-summer, sunflowers are a staple piece …
Double bomb peonies remind me so much of double peonies. One of my favorites is salmon peony poppy from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. It has a sweet scent, with loads upon loads of pinkish cream petals. Seed Cost is Inexpensive When ordering seeds from Baker Creek, the first thing to consider is that these are …
As the Asiatic lily season is winding down, the oriental lilies are starting to bloom full swing. Granted, I don’t have many growing this season, but the scent of them is sweet bliss, the smell so beautiful. What better flower to use as the focal in an arrangement than oriental lily? The Foliage Sometimes the …
I love how pansies are one of the first bedding flowers to bloom in the spring. They can handle cold temperatures more than any other bedding flower. Nevertheless, it warms up in spring enough to plant petunias to bloom from planting throughout the entire growing season. Thus, I never like pansies in flower beds. They …
Besides sunflowers, my number one crop of summer and early fall cut flowers are zinnias, but the best way to plant them is in landscape fabric from seed. Floret will plant her zinnia seeds with a one-row seeder. For how many she is planting, that totally makes sense. For my large-scale gardening, I only need …
My first year growing cut flowers for my home, I did not have high quality landscape fabric. For my small 3’ x 10’ beds of zinnias, marigolds, and gladioli, I applied mulch between the closely planted flowers. 2021 was just a crazy, busy summer to where I fell behind on applying mulch to suppress weeds. …
It’s my favorite flower season- peonies are in bloom. With peonies needing at least three years to become established, my own peonies are all Sarah Bernhardt variety. They have a medium, soft pink with some specks of a darker pink. Thanks to this unusual weather for late May, these peonies are blooming earlier, just in …
With my first season of starting cool flowers indoors and planting them in the ground in the books, I discovered my favorite way to plant cool flowers with mulch. Although it is similar to how I’ve planted my summer cut flowers with spacing, fertilizer, and design, the weed preventive strategies are different. For the most …
With one and half beds of cool flowers planted in early spring, I needed to put down some sort of a mulch. After their planting, we had at least four days of warm weather with highs in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Summertime weather in spring. The soil was drying out around these new …