When you don’t have a lot of garden space to work with, you have to make every inch count. That means being intentional with which plants you include in your cut flower garden, so you have enough blooms for a bouquet. Avoid having too few blooms by planning the layout for your small cut flower…
As the seed catalogs start rolling in and emails arrive describing the new varieties for the year, my hands itch to get my flower garden started. If it were up to me, I’d be planting out my summer flowers in February to get a jump on the season. But I have to hold my horses…
No gardener wants to see the end of the season. Looking out to the flower garden on a frosty morning and seeing dead, frostbitten plants is a sad sight, indeed. Especially after a growing season of hard work and enjoying fresh bouquets throughout the house. But not all hope is lost, as there are some…
A garden that will produce flowers all season long with minimal effort sounds pretty good, right? You can either plant a ton of single bloom-producing flower plants, or you can tap into the bounty of cut and come again flowers, the top producers of the flower garden. Cut and come again flowers are a group…
One of the most popular flower colors for the spring garden is purple. It’s a cheerful color represented by sleek tulips and dainty pansies. Even better, it’s one of the preferred colors of bees, who are undoubtedly happy to have an abundance of spring blooms to visit. Having early spring blooms for cut flowers take…
The workhorses of any bouquet or arrangement are foliage and fillers. They’re so important that in the cut flower world, the general recommendation is to plant at least 50% of your garden space only with these two types of plants. It’s easy to lump foliage and filler into the same category, but there are some…
Few other flowers are as well known as the sunflower. Whether for photographs, attracting birds and bees, or cutting, the sunflower is a fantastic plant for the garden. It’s also one of the most popular flowers sold by flower farmers and growers at the farmer’s market, their cheerful yellow faces calling passers-by over for a…
It’s happened to all of us gardeners. You meant to get the garden in early. By the latest, you swore you’d have your seeds and transplants in the ground by May. But life got in the way, or a wet spring pushed back all your plantings. Or maybe you did get some spring flowers going,…
Plant spacing for the cut flower garden is different than what is typically used in a landscaped bed or an ornamental flower garden. This is particularly true for annual flowers, which only live one growing season, and many backyard cut flower growers focus on annuals since they’re easy and quick to grow. Follow the spacing…
The holiday season is upon us! Whether you like to get yourself a little something or you’re looking for a unique gift for the flower grower you know and love, the right gift is out there. This gift guide will range from self-improvement as a cut flower gardener (classes and books) to practical items (seeds…
