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 …
Plant hardy annuals. Plant cool flowers. Uhh, I loved reading all sorts of resources on planting cut flowers early in the season that could handle the cooler temperatures. Floret has a chapter in her book “Cut Flower Garden” on hardy annuals. She suggests planting these about a month before your average last frost. Gardener’s Workshop …