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.
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Learn how 5 flower farmers from across the U.S. are successfully adapting to heat, drought, and the extreme weather events of a changing climate.
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Our panel of professional flower farmers discusses how to personalize your approach to ensure fair pricing and business sustainability in the face of change.
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.
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Yarrow | Key Growing Information
Written by our research team, here is the essential information for growing yarrow flowers from seed: germination, light/soil needs, spacing, hardiness, and harvesting for drying or bouquets.
Four farmer-florists from across the continent discuss selecting, planning, growing, harvesting, drying, designing, pricing and selling your dried botanical materials.
In commercial cut-flower production and the backyard cutting garden, fillers and foliage form the backbone of cut-flower arrangements. We asked flower farmers from three different regions for recommendations.