In this episode, I sit down with my good friend Dave Dowling to cover the basics of growing peonies. Â For home gardeners, we cover where and how to plant them, when and how to fertilize, watering, deadheading and fall cleanup. For commercial growers, we cover...
n this recent Clubhouse chat Lisa covered all the basics to get you started with Celosia, including variety selection, seed starting, harvesting and conditioning. Here are some of her highlighted picks: Best Celosia for Drying:Â Cockscomb Cramer's Mix Most Popular with...
Whether you're a flower enthusiast home gardener or a commercial cut-flower grower, you know that you want your cut flowers to last as long as possible. In this episode, I cover post-harvest care for cut flowers in lots of different scenarios, and the practices that I...
I've been growing snapdragons for over two decades and thought I had a handle on it---but NOT after this discussion with Dave Dowling! In this episode, we are talking about extending the harvest season, how to do that but variety selection, harvesting, conditioning,...
I am coming to you the week before Mother's Day and thought now is a great time to talk about helping fresh-cut flowers last longer. Lots of mentions in this episode and below are the links: Request my article with all the steps to follow:Â Â Making the Most of Your Cut...
The first cuts of the season for the Benary's Giants. Growing great zinnias is easy. Hands down zinnias are the favorite garden flower for many. As a flower farmer, it is in our top 5 best selling cut flowers and as a retailer we sell more zinnia seeds than any other...
We are known on the local cut-flower scene for our near-perfect blossoms and how long they last in the vase. While this may have happened by chance at the beginning of my flower farming career--- nowadays I work pretty hard at making my flowers as gorgeous and long...
It has been my season for unexpected gifts. Last night I returned from a week with grandchildren to find a jar of homemade hand lotion. I opened the lid and breathed in the aroma. Maybe it was just my recent bout with Valentine syndrome, but it smelled to me like...
Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012 I went to Virginia Beach, Virginia to give the program "Roots of a Great Garden." What a pleasure to see so many friends and so much excitement following the program. Whenever I talk about the simple facts of organic gardening I can literally...
