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The Iconic Friendship Between Floral Designers and Flower Farmers
The Iconic Friendship Between Floral Designers and Flower Farmers
The Flower Farming Movement Has a Problem
The Flower Farming Movement Has a Problem
Great Spring Flowers for Small Scale Flower Farms
Great Spring Flowers for Small Scale Flower Farms
Tips on Making a Tiny Flower Farm Work in a Small Space
Tips on Making a Tiny Flower Farm Work in a Small Space
Join the Small Scale Flower Farm Movement
Join the Small Scale Flower Farm Movement
An Essay on Flower Farm Envy
An Essay on Flower Farm Envy
Why Picking a Niche is Everything as a Small Scale Flower Farmer
Why Picking a Niche is Everything as a Small Scale Flower Farmer
Why We Grow so Many Zinnias as Small Scale Flower Farmers
Why We Grow so Many Zinnias as Small Scale Flower Farmers
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6 Must Have Flowers for the Small Scale Flower Farm
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Small Scale Flower Farming

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A Hot Summer and a Plum Cake
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Top Tips on How to Use (and Grow) Tulips for Flower Farmers
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Top Tips on How to Use (and Grow) Daffodils as a Flower Farmer
 

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The 10 Flower Farm Business Models
Top Tips on How to Use (and Grow) Daffodils as a Flower Farmer
Top Tips on How to Use (and Grow) Daffodils as a Flower Farmer
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Floral Design Tutorial: A Simple Summer Centerpiece
 
 

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How to beat the winter blues (tip #16): Enjoy fresh flowers in the form of forced bulbs like daffodils, tulips, hyacinths and these muscari (grape hyacinths) here. You can either chill them yourself outside or purchase them pre-potted and chilled - k
Seeking shades of green, I was perusing old photographs and found this picture of euphorbia ‘Ascot Rainbow’ from the fall. It’s variegated leaves are wonderful with that bright strip of white and cool mint-green center. One of our f
Days are getting warmer and the quality of light is different. I’m grateful to have survived January (happens every year) and February is when things seem to move a bit quicker. Roses are starting to bud up with new growth, pussy willows will s
Morning stillness with coffee. Have a lot to do today - lots of seed starting for early planting, organizing hardy perennial scheduled, organizing invoices, podcasting and video planning and recording as well. And after writing that, I’m feelin
Remembering the time when this peacock strutted right up to our back door. We have a flock of wild peacocks endemic to our neighborhood and we see (and hear) them occasionally but this curious male came right up to our door. It was truly a very speci
Had a lot of fun and success propagating oriental lilies through scaling this year. It’s super easy - you just remove a few scales from your favorite bulb, place them in a bag of vermiculite that stays in a dark and warm cupboard that you compl
Got a case of the Mondays that even coffee can’t seem to fix, but we’ll be alright. Spent a lot of time cleaning up and planning in the garden this past weekend. I’m grateful to have the garden in retrospect because I don’t th
The birds are loving all the echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower) seed heads that we left up for them this year. New Mexico has a lot of migratory species flying through that we didn’t get to see in the Midwest, and it’s always delightf