The bouquet-growing bible gardeners have been waiting for! Learn the
ins and outs of growing gorgeous blooms at home with professional
flower farmer Lisa Mason Ziegler of @gardenersworkshopfarm. *2025
GardenComm Silver Laurel Media Award Winner* Whether you’re
cultivating fresh-cut bouquets for yourself, family, and friends or
for others on a small commercial scale, you’ll go from sowing seeds
to cutting armloads of colorful, long-lasting blooms with ease.
Lisa’s unique approach and easy-to-follow advice on multi-season
planting and harvesting uses the natural warm and cool weather cycles
present in almost all growing regions to maximize cut flower
production. This logical and nature-driven method is also a signature
hallmark of her super-successful online flower-farming courses, and
it’s one that translates equally well to both small urban backyards
and large rural flower farms. Growing your own cut flowers means you
can avoid bouquets laden with pesticides (who wants that on their
wedding day?) and you can skip the trips to your local flower shop or
grocery store to pay big bucks for a bouquet that has racked up more
airline miles than you could ever hope to. Included in this
essential cut flower growing handbook are: 50 extensive flower
profiles divided into their preferred season of growth. Cool-weather
favorites include poppies, snapdragons, and bells of Ireland.
Warm-season beauties include zinnias, sunflowers, and celosia.
Planting tips for a succession of blooms that carry over from one
growing season to the next without any additional work from you.
Illustrations showing how to pinch plants for more blooms, how to make
your cuts, how to erect support netting to keep your flowers straight
and upright, how to dig a planting bed, and more. Over 200 photographs
of the best cut flowers for home gardeners to grow, the most effective
methods for their care, and the most productive ways to
organize them in the garden. Advice on caring for a cutting garden,
locating the best planting site, starting plants from seed, making the
harvest, prolonging the life of your cut flowers, and so much more!
The Cut Flower Handbook is the perfect balance of inspiration and
education for anyone interested in bringing more beauty into their
lives by growing cut flowers at home.
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Select, Plant, Grow, and Harvest Gorgeous Blooms
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780760382134
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Quarto Publishing Group USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter