It can be hard to find a gift for the flower farmer in your life, since they have already bought all the seeds (and do you really need anything more?). But I love books, and so here are some of my favorites as a flower farmer, along with a review.
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The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower’s Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers
Lynn Byczynski
Cool Flowers: How to Grow and Enjoy Long-Blooming Hardy Annual Flowers Using Cool Weather Techniques
Lisa Mason Ziegler
Floret Farm’s Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms
Erin Benzakein
Floret Farm’s A Year in Flowers: Designing Gorgeous Arrangements for Every Season
Erin Benzakein
Everlastings: How to Grow, Harvest and Create with Dried Flowers
Bex Partridge
The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work
Ben Hartman
Ready Farmer One: The Farmer’s Guide to Selling and Marketing
Diego Footer, Nina Galle
Grounded: A Gardener’s Journey to Abundance and Self-Sufficiency
Liz Zorab
Small Farm, Big Dreams: Turning A Flower-Growing Passion into a Successful Floral Business
Jennifer O’Neal
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Thanksgiving Cactus (Schlumbergera Truncata), Christmas Cactus( Schlumbergera Bridgesii), Easter Cactus (Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri).
Double layer Chicken wire?
Sarah Raven has written the iconic flowerfarmer book
Have you checked out Georgie Newbury at Common farm flowers for all things to put in a bouquet aren’t just flowers …..she is in England & lives on a plot where she grows staples for bouquets such as crab apple, willow, all sorts of vines & other greens that add life & texture & movement in her amazing bouquets.
I have a Christmas cactus it flowers every year bright pink flowers Im very proud it’s about 15 years old.
5:58 It is strange how we think a regular supply for someone’s passion doesn’t make a good gift. I would also love some high quality seed starting trays, knitters always love yarn, etc. Let’s start a movement this Christmas – get people things they will use this Christmas! 😀
Thank you for great video.
I know it'd be probably a couple hour drive, but Grainger Canada in Kamloops should have hardware cloth, if not in stock then quickly shipped in from another location, and from what tell on my end (I'm in the supply chain sector and work with Grainger a lot) they have a variety of mesh sizes, gauges and sizes. (50ft lengths available too). Hope you find a solution to your hardware cloth dilemma.
I thought Florets dahlia book might be on my list. I am curious if anyone has read it and their thoughts. I am very much a newbie growing dahlias.
Thanks for sharing about what each of those books are about, and for introducing your thoughts on the need for different business models than Floret . I'm learning this stuff but no plan to obtain a farm currently. Just Dreaming of escaping my unfulfilling job in New York City at the moment
Keep on keeping on, thanks for all your knowledge. When do you plant ridonculous ?
I had to order Cool Flowers from my bookstore, it’s being printed, it’s been over two months. Hopefully I’ll get it soon.
Cool Flowers has a workshop on YouTube on Saturdays. Being on YouTube, you can watch them anytime. I’m in zone 5b also.
Hello Guys,
I found some interesting youtube video regarding new way to sell flowers during fall time "Pumpkin arrangements". May be you guys can try that next year. I saw this concept in "shifting roots" YouTube channel.