The Cut Flower Handbook: Select, Plant, Grow, and Harvest Gorgeous Blooms
The Cut Flower Handbook: Select, Plant, Grow, and Harvest Gorgeous Blooms
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The Cut Flower Handbook is a comprehensive guide for growing gorgeous blooms at home, with professional flower farmer Lisa Mason Ziegler of @gardenersworkshopfarm. It offers easy-to-follow advice on multi-season planting and harvesting, using natural warm and cool weather cycles to maximize cut flower production. The handbook includes 50 extensive flower profiles, planting tips, illustrations, and over 200 photographs of the best cut flowers for home gardeners to grow. It also provides advice on caring for a cutting garden, locating the best planting site, starting plants from seed, making the harvest, and prolonging the life of cut flowers.
Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 29 February 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
The eagerly awaited bouquet-growing bible for gardeners has finally arrived! Discover the secrets of creating stunning blooms right in your home with professional flower farmer Lisa Mason Ziegler of @gardenersworkshopfarm. Whether you're nurturing fresh-cut bouquets for yourself, your loved ones, or even on a small commercial scale, you'll effortlessly transform seeds into armfuls of vibrant, long-lasting flowers. Lisa's unique approach and step-by-step guidance on multi-season planting and harvesting leverage the natural warm and cool weather cycles found in nearly all growing regions to maximize cut flower production. This logical and nature-driven method is a hallmark of her highly successful online flower-farming courses, which seamlessly translates to both small urban backyards and large rural flower farms. Growing your own cut flowers allows you to steer clear of bouquets laden with pesticides (who wants that on their wedding day?) and skip the trips to your local flower shop or grocery store to shell out big bucks for a bouquet that has traveled more miles than you could ever imagine. This essential cut flower-growing handbook includes: 50 comprehensive flower profiles, categorized by their preferred season of growth. Cool-weather favorites include poppies, snapdragons, and bells of Ireland. Warm-season beauties include zinnias, sunflowers, and celosia. Planting tips for a succession of blooms that carry over from one growing season to the next without any extra effort from you. Illustrations demonstrating how to pinch plants for more blooms, make precise cuts, create support netting to keep your flowers upright, dig a planting bed, and more. Over 200 stunning photographs showcasing the finest cut flowers.
Weight: 990g
Dimension: 210 x 262 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780760382103
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