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By Lynn Byczynski

The household lower flower enterprise has skilled a renaissance long ago decade, thank you largely to the 1st version of The Flower Farmer: An natural Grower's consultant to elevating and promoting lower Flowers, which helped hundreds of thousands of small growers commence winning companies. This newly elevated and carefully revised variation can be both as influential for rookies and skilled growers alike.

With the minimize flower enterprise turning out to be at list charges, call for is in any respect time highs, not easy growers to exploit new suggestions to lengthen the harvest. New sections on using greenhouses, concepts for flower cultivars, and put up harvest dealing with growers all through all of North the United States might help increase their final analysis. additionally up to date is the acclaimed source listing, whole with assets of seeds, vegetation and provides, and professional details on natural creation below the nationwide natural Program.

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In this sample garden, the irises, daisies, peonies, gypsophila, and veronica bloom in late spring. Those are followed by the echinacea, phlox, Caryopteris , and New England asters. Campanula persicifolia is a favorite perennial for early-summer cut flowers. Bulbs Some of the most important cut flowers are grown from bulbs, corms, tubers, or rhizomes. An important consideration is whether they are hardy in your climate and can be left in the ground year-round, or whether they need to be dug up in the fall and stored over the winter.

Most of the ageratums you’ll find at garden centers, though, are the short types used in the front of landscape beds. ‘Benary’s Giant’ zinnias are easy, prolific, and cheerful cut flowers. They are rarely available wholesale, so they are a good choice for local growers. For the garden of annuals, I recommend that you set aside a special area: in the vegetable garden, along a fence, or beside the garage. Although annuals are beautiful to behold individually, they won’t look great from a distance.

Helianthus annuus (sunflower). Buy seed for a 12-foot row. For the longest season of production, grow a branching variety, preferably one that is pollenless. ) The ‘Aura’ series meets both criteria. You might also want to plant a red, bronze, or bicolor variety such as ‘Moulin Rouge’ or ‘Ring of Fire’. The classic florist sunflower is a single-stemmed variety such as ‘Pro Cut’, ‘Sunrich’, or ‘Sunbrite’. • Alliums are super-easy to grow. ‘Purple Sensation’ is one of the best because the bulbs aren’t expensive and they come back for years.

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