The book are amazing, I follow all instructions and grow a beautiful flowers and my flowers farm had a lot pollinators and flowers 🌺 became my dream garden 🪴
The Cut Flower Handbook
by Lisa Mason Ziegler
Learn how to grow an abundance of beautiful cut flowers for pleasure or profit. This hardcover handbook includes 41 cool-season and 25 warm-season flowers to grow and harvest.
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Select, Plant, Grow, and Harvest Gorgeous Blooms
Lisa’s newest and latest book, The Cut Flower Handbook, is for anyone interested in bringing more beauty into their lives by growing cut flowers.
The perfect balance of inspiration and education, The Cut Flower Handbook teaches how Lisa grows and harvests annual cut flowers from seed to bloom while sharing the varieties that have become her tried and true favorites. Learn how the size of your growing area alone determines the success or failure of your cutting garden and when to plant cool-season and warm-season flowers.
Lisa shares her streamlined steps for preparing, locating, and maintaining the cutting garden. Learn why and how she selects the best seed starting method for a specific flower and its favored growing conditions. Lisa also shares her tried and true methods for how she starts seeds – from soil blocking to growing in plug trays to planting seeds directly in the garden!
Over half the book features specific flowers or flower groups, including growing facts, Lisa’s firsthand experiences with them, tips for home gardeners and flower farmers, harvesting and conditioning steps, and lists of Lisa’s favorite varieties.
Lisa’s logical and nature-driven method is the signature hallmark of her super-successful online flower-farming courses, and it’s one that translates equally well to both small urban backyards and large rural flower farms.
The book is an 8” x 10”, 240 page Hardback. Included in this essential cut flower growing handbook are:
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66 extensive flower profiles divided into their preferred season of growth. This includes 41 cool-season flowers like poppies, snapdragons, and bells of Ireland plus 25 warm-season beauties like zinnias, sunflowers, and celosia.
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Planting tips for a succession of blooms that carry over from one growing season to the next providing flowers from spring to fall.
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Illustrations showing succession plantings, how to pinch plants for more blooms, how to make your cuts, how to dig a planting bed, and more.
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Over 200 photographs of the best cut flowers to grow, the most effective methods for their care, advice on caring for a cutting garden, locating the best planting site, starting plants from seed, making the harvest, prolonging the life of your cut flowers, and so much more!
PLUS, get an exclusive bonus when ordering through us
Book Bonus Resource
The Flowers That Didn’t Make the Book!
Additional flower feature pages that didn’t make the book! This reference guide consists of the flowers Lisa couldn’t squeeze in.
Digital file emailed on shipping confirmation.
Endorsements
More people join the gardening renaissance every season, and once they do so, it doesn’t take long for them to discover the joy of growing blooms, both for their own enjoyment and to share with others. The Cut Flower Handbook is Lisa Mason Ziegler’s generous gift to our community of gardeners and backyard growers, filled with practical flower-growing knowledge, encouragement, inspiration, and advice on flower selections for cool and warm seasons. Dive into this extensive handbook and learn from a pro! Your senses and empty vases will soon be overflowing.
— Debra Prinzing, author and founder of the Slow Flowers Society
Lisa Ziegler’s message is simple: everyone can grow cut flowers. And she has the decades of practical experience to guide you from seed to harvest. The Cut Flower Handbook is essential reading for anyone interested in learning not just how to grow cut flowers, but how to grow them well year after year. The information and advice is clear and aimed at both new and experienced gardeners as well as those with big and small gardens. If you want to grow flowers, you need this book.
—Niki Jabbour, author of The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener and Growing Under Cover, co-founder of SavvyGardening.com
The Cut Flower Handbook is a must-own for anyone who loves cut flowers. Lisa’s straightforward, step-by-step approach to growing and harvesting annual flowers is easy to understand and apply. Her new book combines the best of her previous two books, Cool Flowers and Vegetables Love Flowers, while adding valuable new tips and tricks along the way.
—Danielle Keeton, Northlawn Flower Farm
Lisa Ziegler’s love of flower farming shines from every page of this lovely book, and any gardener is sure to be caught up in her enthusiasm. More importantly, she provides the details that will make a flower business successful. I highly recommend this book!
—Lynn Byczynski, Author of The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower’s Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers; Founder, Growing for Market magazine; Owner, Seeds from Italy
The Cut Flower Handbook is everything you need to know to take the guesswork out of planning, planting, and growing beautiful cut flowers (and finally getting the timing right!). Concisely covered and beautifully arranged, Lisa Ziegler has created the most useful and practical resource for every budding flower grower!
—Joe Lamp’l, Host of public television’s Growing a Greener World, Founder of joegardener.com and The joegardener Show podcast, and the Online Gardening Academy
Want to start growing cut flowers? Start here! Lisa covers it all.
—Antonio Valente, Specialty Cut Flower Grower at antoniovalenteflowers.com
Page after page, and chapter after chapter, Lisa gives the reader just about everything needed to make it in cut flower farming. Readers need to simply add determination and a little hard work to make the magic happen. If something isn’t growing right, or you have a question, check the book. The answer is probably already there.
—Dave Dowling, Cut Flower Specialist, Ball Seed
Not only is this book chock full of practical information, it is well written and beautifully laid out with many wonderful photographs and drawings. You will love this book and use it every day!
—Dr. John Dole, Professor, North Carolina State University; Executive Advisor, Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers
This is the kind of book all flower growers will appreciate, from beginners to veterans. Lisa has used her experiences as a grower and writer to weave the hundreds of pieces of information needed to produce beautiful cut flowers into easy-to-understand solutions. Not only are the words useful, but the supporting photos and illustrations are also informative and excellent. A “must-have” for anyone dealing with cut flowers.
—Dr. Allan M. Armitage, Emeritus Professor of Horticulture, University of Georgia, author of Specialty Cut Flowers
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Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 69 reviews.
The best book on all the specs for growing quality cut flowers. Love it. So cheap for what you get! Just buy it right now!!!!
Love the book and attention to details you put into shipping. You gals rock. Thanks for my wonderfully delightful experience.
Great resource - i reference from it almost daily.
Love it! Thanks so much for all that you do.
I am not a flower farmer but I found the book valuable for information about seed starting. I was unable to master soil blocking this year due to problems with my equipment and with the soil mix. I understand more now and will re-evaluate this method next spring when I start seeds again.
The best reference book that I’ve ever owned. Ready to start planting.
Love the books so much information!
A fabulous resource book for learning about flowers and how to properly grow them. Highly recommend!
The Cut Flower Handbook is a fantastic resource! There is way more to growing flowers than I ever realized and LIsa's book has the information organized beautifully.
Planting a small cut flower garden this year. It totally is helping me be more organized in my planting. I also love all the new flower suggestions I hadn't thought of for a cut flower.
I love the book! It is so helpful but I wish I had gotten the spiral book version.
What a beautiful book! My husband is planting his first ever cut flower garden, and this is his full guidebook!!
Love this book. I’m learning a lot
We’ve done some cut flowers before in zone 4 but recently moved to zone 7a so Lisa’s book has been a wonderful resource!
The Cut Flower Handbook is a fantastic resource for home gardeners and flower farmers. Very well organized. The stage to harvest photos is my favorite detail.
Such a beautiful and handy book! I gave it to all my flower friends for Christmas this year!
This book answers a lot of questions about why my efforts at starting seeds so often ended with disappointed results. Thank you SO much!
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Love the book! Have referred to it multiple times already while organizing and trying my fall planting of hardy seeds. A great book I will refer to for yrs to come. Thanks so much!
Information was very informative and organized well.
Learning all the time!
Beautiful book! It’s easy to understand and the graphics are beautiful.
Excellent book!
I like it so much I accidentally ordered it twice! I gifted our local library the extra copy.
This is a great resource for the small business flower farmer/florist. I am loving it!
Great book - lovely photos and helpful information
This book is overflowing with information I needed to get my cut flower farm growing. Timing truly does make a huge difference. I can't wait to see some of my seedlings flower and grow! Thank you so much. Your book will be in my hands throughout this and future years. Thank you again, Billiejean
Wow! What a wonderful resource. I’ve used Lisa’s Cool Flowers book as a hardy annual “bible” for years but her newest book is fantastic. It fills in so so much more details and information on growing hardy annual and tender annual flowers. I wish I’d had this when I first started farming six years ago. I refer back to this book frequently. I 100% recommend this book to anyone who loves flowers and wants to eliminate a lot of beginner and seasoned grower mistakes. 2 thumbs up and 5 stars!
I am just starting my flower business journey this year and this book has been a life saver. It has helped me start seeds properly in seed blocks and how to know when to plant certain plants. Love this book
Very informative book with tons of gorgeous pictures!!
Such a beautiful and helpful book! Got me going this spring through the gardening blahs to a plan.
Has all the specifics and clarity I was looking for as a newbie enthusiast!
I LOVE THE BOOK EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND A WELTH OF INFO.Thank you lisa and team you did a Awesome job 👏
I am learning so much. It has me excited to start.
Ordered this book for my wife as a Christmas present. She's a serious cut-flower gardener and said the book is very professional. She's pleased... I'm pleased.
Christmas gift requested from my daughter. She loves it!
Great book that is easy to read.
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Love the book and it arrived quickly!
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