Hey, Mom! Look at These Flowers. Spending a morning walking through the flower fields to harvest a garden bouquet with every flower I find. Before I ever sold flowers, I was growing them for pure enjoyment of being with flowers and then making bouquets to give to my mom and my grandmother. As I like …
Walking through the garden in mid-July, I selectively harvest early summer blooms for a subscriber’s large vase bouquet. With the yellow oriental lily, I match it with other yellow flowers, and collaborate these shades of yellow with flowers of white and blue. Focal Flower For this bouquet, I want the focus to be the oriental …
A part of flower farming is to create beautiful arrangements for my own home. Market bouquets are easy to put together, but to unleash my creative side with flowers, I harvest flowers to build a higher level arrangement. While harvesting yellow flowers in the garden for one large bouquet, I harvested enough for two bouquets, …
Ooh. What a challenge these Apricot Arena Lisianthus were. What a comeback from my first year growing these! Growing any lisianthus is challenging taking about 8 months from seed to harvest, but by harvest these flowers are absolutely beautiful mixing the beauties of tulips and roses into one late summer bloom. Overcoming Challenges of My …