Zinnias are one of the easiest flowers to grow, but that doesn't mean they have to be boring. These types show the true range ...
Around the time your autumn-planted bulbs like daffodils and crocuses begin to bloom is the perfect time to start thinking about planting out your summer blooming bulbs. These bulbs are planted in ...
A cut flower garden brings joy to the grower—that’s you!—and to anyone lucky enough to receive one of your homegrown bouquets. It’s a simple, soul-nourishing way to add beauty, fragrance, and color to ...
Broadcaster, plantswoman and author Sarah Raven offers tips.
Cut flowers sounded easy when I started gardening. Just plant some flowers and then cut them, right? Well, there is a lot more to it than that. Cut flowers are often grown from specific varieties that ...
If you enjoy vases full of flowers in your home without stripping your flower beds bare, you need a cut flower garden. What could be better than a constant rotation of fresh bouquets, with blooms you ...
Step inside Frances Palmer’s Connecticut garden as she creates a vibrant arrangement—no tape or wire required.
One of the easiest and most rewarding methods of gardening is to grow flowers from stem cuttings. Rather than buying new ...
Summer is here, with plenty of warm weather ahead, so why not grow flowers you can cut and bring indoors to enjoy? Growing cut flowers is easy and won’t require much effort once the plants get ...
Every spring, I cut fragrant lilac stems from the two bushes flanking my front gate and set them in a vase indoors, where their fragrance perfumes the entire first floor better than any scented candle ...
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 ...