With our big plans to grow a lot more flowers in 2022, I have vig plans to add a lot more varieties as well! Join me to chat about some of the new flowers that I’m the most excited to experiment with, what I hope they can add to the flower farm, and some of my concerns. There will be lots of blooms and experimentation in 2022, and I can’t wait!
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how’s everything going?! You~ that's beautiful ! =))
Johnny's needs to sponsor you. Love all your videos.
Do you grow geum (perennial )?
I love carnations.
Be careful with aphids on cabbage, you may cut them after the frost and it will seems, like trey are dead. But their eggs are still there, they may hatch in the vase and your client will get a glorious infested bouqet. Also, on my cale adults survive some frost…
Also, i encourage you to research asters and shabaud dianthus more and change your plan. Dianthus loves cold, its true, but it grows very slowly, its better to start early (really early, like now) but in cold conditions. And asters, vice versa can be direct sown, direct sown ones will bloom in september, sown in plugs in august.
You are going to love the scabiosa. And the seed pods look neat and dry amazing! Even the flowerheads once they drop their petals look cool and thistle like, and are great in dry arrangements. It's an awesome plant!
For those of you who want to try direct seeding for the first time, a "controlled experiment" outside vs. inside with just 6 plugs or something of each and tracking them would be fascinating to see if there was any difference by harvest time:)
I think flowers, like everything, have times of being 'in fashion'. Dianthus have always been popular as a cut flower here in the UK, but growing them in gardens were more my Grandma's generation, and many have them simply because they've inherited them when buying the house. We get smaller varieties, similar to the purple/white that you showed, put in made up pots. I happened to buy one in our local box store, because it was in their 'needs help' section… read 'we didn't water it, help it, it's dying!'… It's been in my North facing front garden for some years now, with nemasia that comes back every year too, and I just stick in some lobelia around the edge. They do like the cooler temps, and will happily grow in shade. I do so like these unboxings, because you feed a love of mine, without me having to do all the work! lol
Our flower farm grew chabaud dianthus last year, and I'll admit, I was underwhelmed. The stems tended to flop over and be a bit brittle, and I expected the blooms to be a bit bigger. They're supposedly perennial though, so I'll see if I like them any more this year than last. I do recommend netting them, though.
As always, thanks for sharing your life with us!
Love in the mist/ nigella I have in several colors but I really just like the pods, along with poppy seed heads and dry strawflowers.
I'm uk and I love scabious mine have overwintered this year and I still have the odd flower I have only just cut them back
So the decorative kales that won’t work in case would you sell them as a potted plant?
You need turkeys to help get the grasshoppers under control. I raise a new batch every year and they actually hunt down those nasty grasshoppers. Best natural control I have found.
Nigellla self seeds. You can put it in a dedicated area and don't bother with buying seeds in the future. I've got it going now for 5 years. It's not difficult to identify seedlings. Mine grow with California poppies so they look gorgeous together. The colour combo is visually stunning. I think I get more than one generation of California poppies per year because they keep going until frost and the ones by the fence grow at least 3 feet tall. Quite bizarre to be honest given they allegedly are not tall plants.
Nigella flowers once and the seeds don't germinate until spring.
put the Chabauds in your greenhouse. You can multiply them as stem cutting–use coir, not water to root them (After they stop blooming, cut them back and start cuttings from the stems.) Tender perennials that live easily in a cool greenhouse, just no frost.
Grasshoppers can be cured by turkeys–they won't bother the vegetation as long as you just walk them through and don't let them stay overnight unless you're done with the produce. Get electric net and let birds clean up your beds, in the fall, then invite them for dinner. Turkeys don't scratch. Or rent/trade some. Heritage breeds fly.
Garden carnations have amazing scent. Much more than florist carnations.
So can you start any of these in the fall so they bloom early in the spring or are the winters too cold there?
For the folks germinating lupine, there’s a trick I learned in a horticulture class. You have to lightly sand the seed coating (like with the fine side of a nail file) and then soak it. Then it’s easy to germinate it.
Maybe I wasn’t prepping it right before putting it in a vase, but my victoria salvia always droops after a day in a bouquet. They are gorgeous in the garden though.
I used marigold and cosmos foliage to fill out our CSA bouquets all summer!
Depending on how the love in a mist goes, a growing video would be cool.