Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...
Who doesn't love fresh flower arrangements around the home? From colorful accents to seasonal tributes, freshly cut flowers bring nature indoors and add beauty to our surroundings. When those cut ...
David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...
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 ...
Cutting and arranging flowers is a fun way to exercise your creativity and bring the beauty of your garden indoors. The more you do it, the easier it gets, and you'll soon be sharing your flowers with ...
If you are working on your garden plan, I have something you might want to add to it. A cut flower row. Cut flowers are flowers that are grown to be cut and put in a bouquet. Although I have flowers ...
Molly Gaeckle started her flower farm sowing just a few rows in the backyard garden of a small rental house in Minneapolis. Eight years later, her cut flower operation, Northerly Flora, has grown to ...
Here's how to bring flowers from your cutting garden indoors while keeping insects and mess out. Prevent insects and dirt from coming in on cut flowers by cleaning them first. Remove lower leaves, put ...
Dear Master Gardener: The leaves of my spider plant are a sickly pale green. I have it near a south window. Is it getting too much light? Answer: There are several reasons why a spider plant loses its ...
Traverse Magazine and Leelanau Conservancy alum Carolyn Faught is finding a colorful—and meaningful—mission in life’s next chapter with Omena Cut Flowers. Carolyn Faught is kneeling by the edge of a ...