Cut worthy Flowers Come in Many Forms
While starting from seed is your best bet for many of the best bouquets, you can find plants at garden centers that are great for cuts.
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Local Flower Farms: A Great Source for Fresh Flowers
Event planners (from DIYers to professionals) are looking for freshly cut flowers. Jean Starr discusses local flower farms and florists near you.
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All-America Selection Winners 2017
Each year, plants are tested for performance in trials throughout North America. One of the longest-lived programs for selecting the best plants is the All America Selections program, which began in 1932. Plants that have been determined through these tests to be improvements over previously availab
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Hummingbirds in the Garden This Summer
It's easy to attract hummingbirds to your garden. Plant decorative sage, beebalm, and other nectar-rich flowers that hummingbirds love.
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Seed Starting for Cut Flowers (Easy-to-Grow)
If you enjoy cutting flowers for bouquets, you will have to start many of them from seed. Here are more than a dozen suggestions for cuts.
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Outdoor Container Ideas for Season Long Color
With a bit of planning, outdoor containers can provide splashes of color from early spring to late fall.
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Deadheading Flowers: How to get more blooms
When I plant annuals, perennials, hydrangeas or roses, I expect them to provide flower power in our garden from summer into fall. It’s easy to do by simply deadheading—removing old or spent (finished) flowers. For many of my plants, deadheading encourages more blooms, especially on annuals, such as salvias and zinnias, perennial coneflowers and repeat ...
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Zinnia Plants: Growing from Seed
This last spring, we tried to start some zinnia seeds indoors. Now, I’m painfully aware that gardeners start seeds indoors all the time and it’s not anything special. Except, I’d always failed miserably. This year was different and the difference was the shop light – just an ordinary LED shop light we bought at a ...
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Messy Plants
You know how sometimes, when you're young, you think it would be fun to invite that one guy who's always the life of the party? Then, he drinks a little too much, takes over the stereo, sings like Liza, comes on to your sister in the kitchen, comes on to her husband on the smoking ...
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My Monarch-Friendly Shopping List for Spring
On March 5th, 2018, the Mexican government released their annual report on wintering monarch butterflies. Every year, thousands of monarchs migrate to a small area of protected fir forests near Mexico City. While some years are better than others, the overall trend since the late 1990s has been downward in butterfly numbers. Unfortunately, however, this ...
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