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How to Cut Hyacinths to Use as Cut Flowers

Categories arrangments, bouquets, bulbs, cut flowers, cutting, diy, flowers, forcing, fragrant, gardening, Growing, guide, how to, hyacinth, picking, Uncategorized12 Comments on How to Cut Hyacinths to Use as Cut Flowers

Hi Lovelies, I planned on postponing this post for a little while, at least until I was finished editing the YouTube video to go along with it - but as always, I changed my mind. Using Hyacinths as Cut Flowers I have a kind of weird love of hyacinths. I love them because I think…

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March Week One Update

Categories amaranth, anemones, annuals, arrangments, bachelor buttons, bees, beneficials, bouquets, bulbs, cold, cut flowers, cutting, daffodils, dahlias, decor, direct sow, diy, dusty miller, fall, fall planting, fall sowing, farm, first flowers, flowers, fragrant, frost, gardening, Growing, guide, hardy annuals, home decor, hoophouse, how to, hyacinth, hybrids, indoors, lupine, milk jugs, nectar, photos, picking, planting, plastic, pollen, pollenless, pollinators, poppy, propagating, pulling, quinoa, ranunculus, reviews and trials, salvia, seed saving, seed starting, seedlings, snapdragons, snow, statice, stock, story, strawflower, sunflowers, sweet annie, sweet peas, tubers, tulips, tutorial, Uncategorized, update14 Comments on March Week One Update

Hi Lovelies, Brace yourselves! This post has a lot of pictures. Just a quick peek at  nearly everything that's going on right now! Let's all just hope that this warmer weather will keep on coming our way! Not pictured is the progress on the dahlia tubers that I've started for cuttings. The reason? Well, it looks…

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Growing ‘Ali Oop’ Dahlias

Categories arrangments, bulbs, corms, cut flowers, cutting, dahlias, first flowers, flowers, gardening, Growing, guide, how to, picking, planting, reviews and trials, tubers, tutorial5 Comments on Growing ‘Ali Oop’ Dahlias

Hi Lovelies, It seems that I've managed to stumble upon another winner! I ordered 'Ali Oop' (like many of my other tubers) on a whim when things were on sale this year. While I'm not sure about the origin of the name on this one, I'll just assume that it has something to do with…

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Growing ‘Gay Princess’ Dahlia

Categories arrangments, bouquets, bulbs, corms, cut flowers, cutting, dahlias, flowers, gardening, Growing, how to, picking, planting, reviews and trials, tubers, Uncategorized, update3 Comments on Growing ‘Gay Princess’ Dahlia

Hi Lovelies, Well, it's day four of Blog-tober and we're still going strong - though admittedly, I may or may not be extremely worried about running out of ideas within the next week. Today we'll be taking a look at another dahlia that I grew this season. In an effort to keep these reviews completely…

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5 Easy Annuals For Your First Cutting Garden

Categories amaranth, annuals, arrangments, bees, bouquets, butterflies, celosia, cosmos, cut flowers, cutting, direct sow, first flowers, flowers, gardening, Growing, guide, how to, insects, picking, pollen, pollenless, pollinators, seed starting, sunflowers, Uncategorized, zinnias15 Comments on 5 Easy Annuals For Your First Cutting Garden

Hi Lovelies, Well, folks. It's not been a good morning. It's still cold and rainy, and I woke to find that I'd somehow managed to chip my tooth in my sleep? Ugh. Oh well, Blog-tober must go on. As you may or may not know, my goal is to make a post somewhere on the…

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Guide to Growing Ranunculus

Categories bulbs, corms, cut flowers, cutting, fall, fall planting, fall sowing, flowers, gardening, Growing, guide, hardy annuals, hoophouse, how to, picking, planting, plastic mulch, ranunculus, seed starting, tubers, tutorial, Uncategorized26 Comments on Guide to Growing Ranunculus

Hi Lovelies, Buckle yourself in, because this blog post is going to be an exciting one. Well, I think it is. If you live in one of those awesome areas where the temperatures are relatively mild and ranunculus grow and overwinter outside without protection, this post probably won't serve as much help. However, if like…

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Growing ‘Cafe au Lait’ Dahlias

Categories arrangments, bouquets, bulbs, cut flowers, cutting, dahlias, flowers, gardening, Growing, picking, reviews and trials, tubers3 Comments on Growing ‘Cafe au Lait’ Dahlias

Hi Lovelies, Well, I think we all knew that it was only a matter of time. It was bound to happen, so I figured I would get it over with -- let's talk 'Cafe au Lait'. If you follow pretty much any flower farmer on Instagram or any other social media, for that matter, you've…

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Growing Procut Gold Sunflowers

Categories annuals, bees, butterflies, cut flowers, cutting, direct sow, flowers, gardening, Growing, nectar, picking, planting, pollenless, pollinators, reviews and trials, sunflowers4 Comments on Growing Procut Gold Sunflowers

Hi Lovelies, I can't even begin to tell you how busy I felt today. It's not that there were necessarily many items on my to-do list, in fact, the list consisted of one thing - harvest sunflowers. Harvest, I indeed did! Since discussing sunflowers has managed to turn into a series of sorts, I figured…

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