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 …
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 …
Double bomb peonies remind me so much of double peonies. One of my favorites is salmon peony poppy from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. It has a sweet scent, with loads upon loads of pinkish cream petals. Seed Cost is Inexpensive When ordering seeds from Baker Creek, the first thing to consider is that these are …
As the Asiatic lily season is winding down, the oriental lilies are starting to bloom full swing. Granted, I don’t have many growing this season, but the scent of them is sweet bliss, the smell so beautiful. What better flower to use as the focal in an arrangement than oriental lily? The Foliage Sometimes the …
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 …