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Top Ten Performers: #8 Sweet Peas
I wish I could grow luscious sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) with 10″ or more stems and huge flowers like they do in the Pacific Northwest or in high tunnels in cooler climates. I can’t (or at least I haven’t yet!) … Continue reading
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Top Ten Performer #7: Annual Phlox
I might not have chosen Annual Phlox as #7 even though I love its wide range of color and romantic clusters of small flowers, but numbers don’t lie. When I checked the records and found that the bouquets delivered for … Continue reading
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Minding the Gap
In many growing areas, including my Zone 5 gardens, there is a “gap” in cut flower production in May. Depending upon the area, the weather, and when seeds were sown that gap can be one to three weeks. That’s not … Continue reading
Top 10 Performer #5: Rudbeckia
It was a close call between #5 and #6 because both are essential, but rudbeckia finally won the debate because it is SO much easier to grow. Here in my Zone 5 gardens, rudbeckia is usually a perennial, sometimes a … Continue reading
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Top Ten Performer # 3: Agastaches
This one may surprise a few people! Some may not even recognize the scientific name “agastache” and only know a member of this family by its common name, “Anise Hyssop.” I started growing this plant way back in the late … Continue reading
Corm Comparison: Ranunculus
It’s time here in Zone 5 to pre-sprout the ranunculus corms. The first batch was soaked and planted in a flat, placed in the dark corner of the basement where it’s cool and will be ignored for at least a … Continue reading
Top Ten Performers: #2 Lisianthus
I fell in love with lisianthus the first time I saw them! Amazing colors and forms draw the eye, and so very romantic. Many people at quick glance assume they are roses, and they do resemble roses before they fully … Continue reading
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Tagged bouquets, cutting flowers, cutting garden, flower farm, Indiana gardening, lisianthus
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Top 10 Performers in 2022: #1…ZINNIAS!
Today begins a series of posts about the flowers that I found most useful for bouquets during the 2022 growing season. They will appear in the order in which I felt they were most important, which is why I’m beginning … Continue reading
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Tagged cutting flowers, flower farm, Growing Kindness Project, Indiana gardening, zinnias
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“Growing Kindness” is underway!
The first five bouquets have been delivered this week for the “Growing Kindness Project.” Two went to ladies at nursing homes, one went to a couple in assisted living who just lost their beloved dog, one went to a shut-in … Continue reading
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Tagged cut flowers, cutting garden, flower farm, Growing Kindness Project, Indiana gardening
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“Cool Flowers,” Cold temps & “Hardening Off” !
If you are interested in growing cut flowers or having a flower farm, you’ve probably heard about Lisa Mason Ziegler’s book “Cool Flowers” in which she discuses those hardy, cold tolerant annual flowers that can sometimes (in some zones) be … Continue reading
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Tagged cutting garden, extra early crops, flower farm, hardening off, Indiana gardening, ranunculus
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