Get all the tips for creating garden layouts, how to space out your plants, and how (and why!) to mix and mingle flowers and vegetables together in your space.
Cut flowers can be expensive when you buy bouquets at the store. Even the cost of growing your own cut flowers can add up if you grow lots of varieties or invest in a seed starting set up. But you can absolutely grow flowers on a budget by sticking to just a few easy practices….
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…
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…
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…
