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 …