Feverfew seeds develop into stellar filler flowers for bouquets. The clusters of petite, daisy-like flowers form an overall disk shape. Different varieties produce different florets. One variety may be the combination of daisies with chamomile, while other variety is all white or yellow. The differences in feverfew variety is what makes growing feverfew from seed …
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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 …
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 …
Walking through the fall garden, the flowers are gone with a few remaining blooms. The stems have begun to brown becoming perfect fire-starter material. The one joy to find left from the cut flower garden are the seeds, transporting us into the next growing season. Harvesting and saving cut flower seeds not only brings joy …
August is filled with long, sunny days brightening up our lives with its warm sunshine. To bring that summertime energy indoors, yellow flowers can brighten up a home. Yellow cut flowers for August come in all shapes from focals, disks, spikes, and fillers. Yellow Sunflowers for Cut Flowers For mid-summer, sunflowers are a staple piece …
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. …
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 …