A cut flower garden doesn't have to be anything fancy. You can start by designating one flower bed for growing your favorite perennials and annuals for cutting. Then, if you find that you're using ...
There are flower beds that are primarily meant to look beautiful. And there are those that are mainly intended to yield produce. Cut flower beds can do both. How gardening for the vase works and which ...
A person cutting colorful zinnias while wearing garden gloves. - Oleg Opryshko/Shutterstock Who doesn't love fresh flower arrangements around the home? From colorful accents to seasonal tributes, ...
Summer is not far off, with plenty of warm weather ahead, so plan now so you know what flowers to grow so you can cut and bring indoors to enjoy. Growing cut flowers is easy and won’t require much ...
David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...
Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...
There’s nothing quite like receiving a fresh bouquet of cut flowers. They can cheer up a room, bring a bit of nature indoors and, if you’re lucky, release a heavenly fragrance. But nothing kills that ...
Cut flowers are a wonderful way to brighten any room. Bringing cut flowers into your home can cheer up the rainiest summer days and the coldest weeks of winter. But how do you make sure they stay ...
Farrah Storr writes the popular newsletter/Substack Things Worth Knowing I became an eccentric flower woman sometime between my 40th birthday and the morning I was browsing an antique store in the ...