Learn how adding a variety of plant materials to your floral menu — ornamental grasses, herbs, berries, and structurally unique vegetables — can help create more distinctive, fragrant, and elegant dried-flower arrangements.
Instructions and tips for cutting and air-drying ornamental flowers: location for drying, selecting flowers to dry, prepping, and how to know when your dried materials are ready for arrangements and crafting.
Key Growing Information
Echinacea (Coneflower) | Key Growing Information
Written by our research team, this reference contains the essential information for growing Echinacea spp. (coneflower). Read more for a successful harvest!
A visual celebration of the beautiful, abundant, and unexpected floral design elements that seem to explode during that wonderful transitional time between summer and fall. Enjoy over two dozen examples of regional floral designs using flowers, foliages, herbs, seeds, pods, edibles and vines from across the creative, wide-ranging Slow Flowers Community.
Visit with flower farmers across diverse planting zones, ecoregions, and cultural conditions to learn their succession-planting formulas and gain new insight into this versatile method for producing even more flowers this coming season. Includes tips and recommended approaches for scheduling and planning, sowing frequency, record-keeping, and favorite crops and varieties for succession-planting success.
In a favorite weekly ritual here at Johnny's Research Farm, Flower Product Manager Hillary Alger demonstrates how quickly and easily an informal yet professional-appearing Mason Jar Bouquet can be arranged from the seasonal materials you have at hand.