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How to Plant Zinnias in Landscape Fabric
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.…
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How to Plant Cut Flowers in Landscape Fabric
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…
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Peony Iris Floral Arrangement
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…
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How to Plant Cool Flowers with Mulch
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…
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Three Ways to Mulch Cool Flowers
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…
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Covering Cool Flowers for Hardy Frosts
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.…
