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The Cool-Season Flower Chronicles Series

July 3, 2024

Lisa's five-week video series guides gardeners through the rewarding process of growing cold-season hardy annuals. Listen to each week’s videos as a podcast HERE. Week 1: The Cool Flower Concept...

The TGW Snapdragon Seed Mixes Story

November 13, 2023

I’ve grown well over a million stems of snapdragons since I started my flower farming business in 1998. Throughout the years my relationship with this flower has had a lot...

Cool Flowers Garden Tour 2020

May 18, 2020

Growing cool-season annuals can be tricky. Lisa’s book Cool Flowers, online course Cool Flowers: Beyond the Book for Flower Farming, and the free video Book Study & Planting Guide companion...

It’s All About Timing

February 29, 2020

Direct seeded fall planted bupleurum pictured in February with raindrops. Returning home from travel to my Cool Flowers garden is almost as good as reuniting with Stevie and Tuc. The...

The Secret Sauce of Growing Cool-Season Flowers

January 9, 2020

I stumbled into learning about cool-season hardy annual flowers a couple of decades ago. My interest had been sparked by flower farming and I wanted to jump in with both...

Cool Flowers and Row Cover

October 23, 2019

Floating row covers in action in winter. We have whipping wind for most of the winter and spring. Just imagine if the plants had to take that wind. Using row...