Grow your own fresh bouquets, attract pollinators, and companion plant for beauty and benefit in your garden this year!
With few exceptions, cosmos are a low-maintenance plant that should be included in any flower garden. Not only are they low maintenance, but they are also prolific bloomers during the growing season. Cosmos will bloom all summer long, starting about 12 weeks from when the seeds were planted. Starting seeds indoors and transplanting them out…
Cosmos is one of the cutting garden’s most popular and heaviest-producing flowers. They are also one of the taller plants you might grow. Knowing how tall cosmos grow can help you decide which varieties are best for your garden and where to locate them. Cosmos most commonly grow 40-48 inches tall, though their height can…
Mid-summer isn’t the time that most gardeners are thinking about fall flowers. But it’s the ideal time to plant a new round of seeds that will bloom after the summer bounty winds down. Zinnias are a perfect option for fall-blooming annuals, especially when you choose colors to reflect the season. Zinnias planted in June, July,…
Zinnias are workhorses in the flower garden, and I include them in my garden every season. They also earn a place in bouquets with tall, straight stems and beautiful blooms. I don’t even mind that I need to replant them every year. Zinnias are annual flowers, meaning that they only live one growing season instead…
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…
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…
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…
