Flower Garden

How to Start Rudbeckia Seeds

rudbeckia

Rudbeckia seeds transform into a beautiful flower for the cutting garden or the flower bed. They’re easy to start indoors, but they are also great to save seeds from or spread their seeds in the fall for next year’s blooms. Some varieties are annuals while others are perennials. Either way, they are a great beauty …

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How to Start Marigold Seeds

Starting marigold seeds indoors is an easy way to produce massive quantities of these beautiful flowers. Marigolds were the first flower seed I started from seed. As backyard chickens are the gateway to homesteading, marigold seeds are the gateway to sowing all your flower seeds. I find marigolds absolutely beautiful, especially in their shades of …

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Lemonade Sunflower Bouquet

yellow sunflowers

Sunflowers are so fun. They bring the bees, turn towards the light, and grow so easy from seed. The orange hued petals are most common, but one of my favorites is the lemonade sunflower series. They’re huge and doubled petal. Harvest a bunch of these flowers creates a beautiful en masse bouquet of sunshine for …

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Shades of Berry Bouquet

bouquet of flowers

With lily season winding down and summer stems starting in their peak season, while I walked the flower garden, I continued to see shades of pinks and hues of purple. I love color combinations, but sometimes it takes a gradient of colors to wow the eyes. For early August in Pennsylvania mountains, I created a …

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Buttercream Summer Bouquet

sunflower bouquet

Walking through my flower garden, I harvested every flower with any touch of yellow, and maybe some white. I thought I could make a bouquet with every yellow flowers I grew, but I couldn’t. I had WAY too many flowers harvested, even for my largest vase. In turn, I created two large bouquets, about 30 …

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Tips on Hosting Bouquet Bars

flowers on table

Over the past season, I tried bouquet bars in multiple locations. Bouquet bars are where the flower farmer harvests all the flowers, then offers the flowers for customers to browse through to build their own bouquets. I hosted mine at my front porch twice, and then once at an event with a local business. Are …

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Beginnings of a Flower Season

flowers in a bouquet

Mid-June brings on a new wave, a new flower season, of posies after the irises in late May and the peonies in early June for our PA mountain climate. When planting cool flowers in early April and warm-season flowers in mid-May, I didn’t know when to expect flowers. Years before, my flowers didn’t begin until …

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Farmhouse Hydrangea Bouquet

flowers, tractor, in farm field

Visits to my mom’s family farm always entails my first task- discover the flowers; browse the hydrangea bushes. My flower farming journey wouldn’t have happened without my years helping my brothers with the haymaking operation and the large garden, but most importantly it wouldn’t have started without the flowers around the Bloom farm. It has …

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