The Best Cutting Garden flower arranging tips from an expert - Sandy from The Collected Garden is showing me how to use a flower frog!
Perennials are the gifts that keep on giving!
Floral designers from around the world share their ideas for creating inspiring and beautiful seasonal flower arrangements for summer.
The basics of growing and harvesting flowers on a cutting garden plus extensive lists of annual and perennial flowers to grow in your cutting garden.
We're stepping inside the cut flower garden of Gabriela Salazar, in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, that feeds her floral artistry.
Spring is a time for new beginnings, and what better way to embrace the season than with some fresh and colorful home decor?
vegetables nourish the body but flowers nourish the soul ✨
Common Name: Billy Button, also known as Drumstick + Sun Ball Flower Scientific Name: Pycnosorus globosus syn. Craspedia globosa Life Cycle: Perennial Remarks: Australian Native Perennial Flower, can be cut and used in dried floral arrangements. Plant Height: 60cm When: Spring, Summer + Autumn Sowing Depth + Method: 1mm deep, raise seedlings Spacing: 30cm apart Position: Full Sun Days until Germination: 14-21 days @ 21-24°C Seed To Bloom: 110 - 120 days Approx. Number of Seeds: 50 View our Growing Australian Native From Seed blog here. Note: Orders to Western Australia are sent weekly as they require quarantine inspections upon arrival to WA.
Sweet Scabious, Mourningbride Poor Scabiosa! Hampered with such an unpleasant name, I prefer its common name “Pincushion Flower”. A much loved cottage garden favorite, these “Florist’s” varieties are bred to have larger 2” “pinned” spherical flowers and longer stems perfect-o for flower arranging. A new color for us and we are charmed – the blooms begin as raspberry-pink, shifting with time to soft pink so you get a multi-hued effect. To 3’ x 20” with loads of blooms for months from Summer into Fall, especially with deadheading. Bee and butterfly magnet! Rich, loamy, well-drained soil a must. Self-sows! Drought tolerant once established. Makes a rewarding annual in areas where it’s not hardy.
Perennials are the gifts that keep on giving!
Foxgloves are dramatic cut flowers in a purple and white floral arrangement. Follow step-by-step instructions for Digitalis purpurea, from garden to vase.
Choosing the best dahlia varieties for your garden, business or cutting ptach.
Novel cosmos resemble fluted cupcake wrappers. Cupcakes Blush is as showy as Double Click with lighter-weight blooms held upright on strong stems. The light-colored, finely pleated blooms float above the foliage, reminding us of Degas' paintings of ballerinas. A small percentage of flowers have lovely tufted centers. Specs: Plant Height: 40–50" Packet: 50 seeds Avg. 4,000 seeds/oz Read More
Outstanding clusters of large, yellow-apricot flowers appear early in the season and continue to put on a spectacular show of flushes throughout the warm season. This prolific bloomer with large, cupped blooms has excellent disease resistance and holds up well in the heat! She will make a gorgeous addition to your cut flower arrangements. Garden Sun is the perfect Climbing Rose to adorn an arch, pillar, trellis, or other garden structure.
l hope you had a lovely weekend. After the incredible tropical heat last week here in the UK, especially in the South East, I was so pleased to see the rain yesterday and drop in temperature! I love t
Get your copy of Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers - Erin Benzakein shares her expert tips and ideas for arranging beautiful seasonal flowers
Ptilotus exaltatus A unique and incredibly special bouquet, featuring Mulla Mulla, a native Australian wildflower with a feathery texture and soft mauve colour. These flowers hold their shape and colour flawlessly when dried and have sturdy stems that are wonderful for vases. Featuring three different varieties of the flower, they combine beautifully with the mauve tones of nigella seed pods, xeranthemum annum, and lavender. I hope you love these creations as much as I do. Native Mulla Mulla bouquets would make the most thoughtful gift for a loved one or a special treat for yourself, they look stunning arranged in a vase on a coffee table or desk. The bouquet on my coffee table in the images is a medium size. All of my bouquets are lovingly wrapped in natural tissue paper, beautiful ribbons, and include flower care instructions. If this is a gift, please leave me a note while checking out so that I can add in an extra special message with your bouquet. - Small bouquets measure approximately L 35cm x W 20cm; Medium bouquets measure approximately L 40cm x W 25cm; Large bouquets measure approximately L 45cm x W 30cm. Please bear in mind that every creation is a unique work of art, and so each will vary. - The bouquet on my coffee table is a medium size. The bouquet I am holding is an extra large. - Australian grown wildflowers, naturally dried in my home studio - Never preserved, bleached, dyed, or chemically-altered
Get your copy of Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers - Erin Benzakein shares her expert tips and ideas for arranging beautiful seasonal flowers
In an extract from 'Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers', Washington-based flower grower Erin Benzakein extols the virtues of daffodils and gives inspiration for how to arrange them.
Get your copy of Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers - Erin Benzakein shares her expert tips and ideas for arranging beautiful seasonal flowers
Direct sow after last frost, or sow indoors 3-4 weeks before last frost and then transplant after last frost. Plants enjoy full sun and tolerate poor, dry soil. Plants can reach heights of 3". Cut often to promote bud formation. Dry flowers by cutting stems and hanging them upside down in small clusters.
When I reach Erin French by phone to talk about her flower-arranging tips, she's holding the phone in one hand and twining vines and arranging flowers for
Since starting the farm 5 years ago on leased land, I have been slowly adding to my wish list of perennial flowers, trees and shrubs to plant “one day.” Even though it can be tough to be patient while waiting for the right time (and money!) to make long-term investments, its worth being patient to d
Clare Foster continues her series on the cutting garden, focusing this month on forward planning and making use of biennials, shrubs and hedges for arranging
Learn how to grow your own cut flower garden! Make your own beautiful flower arrangements at home all summer long. An inexpensive way to decorate!
A glimpse into the Botanique Cutting Garden in Seattle, WA, where Kelly Sullivan of Botanique grows and arranges seasonal flowers.
Creating beautiful bouquets is simple when you have these 3 ingredients.
Clare Foster continues her series on the cutting garden, focusing this month on growing annuals like sweet peas from seed, for attractive summer arrangements.
Brighten up your day (and your life!) when you visit S & K Blossoms, a colorful u-pick flower farm in Utah.
Brimming with gorgeous photography and practical design techniques, this new book by beloved flower farmer and floral designer Erin Benzakein illustrates beautiful seasonal bouquets that anyone can make and everyone will enjoy.
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Want a lush garden? Join the club, who doesn't! You can have a lush feel to your garden space if you follow a few guidelines, show a little bit of patience, and take care of your plants needs the right way. Here's how to make a lush secret garden that is all yours!
above top source unknown via Pinterest / above bottom source unknown via PinterestOh hey, it’s been a hot minute since I last posted! Yet here we are in mid-May, we’ve been in the new house for almost a year (!?), and the nice weather finally seems to be sticking around here in Massachusetts. Which means it’s backyard season! While our offer was accepted last April and we made several visits to the house before moving in June, this has been our first Spring here. It’s been fun to see things bloo
Increasingly we think about where our flowers come from: where they were grown and who grew them, the carbon footprint they may have made, and the resource
Larkspur is reminiscent of an English country garden. Learn how to grow Larkspur, a hardy annual flower that will bring joy to any gardener!
Are you thinking about starting a cut flower garden, and have no idea where to start? I'll show you the process I go through when planning my cut flower garden each season.
If you’ve gardened before, it’s common to let the flowers bloom on the plants - whether a bulb, annual, perennial or woody shrub or tree and enjoy them in the setting of the garden. This is certainly a great way to enjoy flowers, but when you are able to cut flowers to enjoy indoors - particularly f
