Have you ever considered having a cut flower garden? I do not mean a traditional garden that blooms all year round, but one meant for having cut flower boutiques. Until the pandemic, I enjoyed getting flower arrangements used to being something I enjoyed. I would get discounted or other gorgeous flowers and enjoy having them on the table throughout my house. However, as things got more expensive, this was one of those things that was cut in our household budget.
I have always dreamed of a beautiful flower garden, but I never considered cutting the flowers (I was always told as a child it would destroy the flowers). Recently, however, I was excited to get an opportunity to learn about having my cut flower garden with the chance to review a complimentary book – The Cut Flower Handbook: Select, Plant, Grow, and Harvest Gorgeous Blooms by Lisa Mason Ziegler. Once my book arrived, I couldn’t wait to start reading!
The Cut Flower Handbook: What Is It
Do you like the thought of having your flower garden for cut flowers? If so, we think you will love The Cut Flower Handbook. Here is what the publisher has to say about this new gardening book:
The bouquet-growing bible gardeners have been waiting for! Learn the ins and outs of growing gorgeous blooms at home with professional flower farmer Lisa Mason Ziegler of @gardenersworkshopfarm.
Whether you’re cultivating fresh-cut bouquets for yourself, family, and friends or for others on a small commercial scale, you’ll go from sowing seeds to cutting armloads of colorful, long-lasting blooms with ease. Lisa’s unique approach and easy-to-follow advice on multi-season planting and harvesting uses the natural warm and cool weather cycles present in almost all growing regions to maximize cut flower production.
This logical and nature-driven method is also a 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.
Growing your own cut flowers means you can avoid bouquets laden with pesticides (who wants that on their wedding day?) and you can skip the trips to your local flower shop or grocery store to pay big bucks for a bouquet that has racked up more airline miles than you could ever hope to.
Included in this essential cut flower growing handbook are:
- 50 extensive flower profiles divided into their preferred season of growth. Cool-weather favorites include poppies, snapdragons, and bells of Ireland. Warm-season beauties include zinnias, sunflowers, and celosia.
- Planting tips for a succession of blooms that carry over from one growing season to the next without any additional work from you.
- Illustrations showing how to pinch plants for more blooms, how to make your cuts, how to erect support netting to keep your flowers straight and upright, how to dig a planting bed, and more.
- Over 200 photographs of the best cut flowers for home gardeners to grow, the most effective methods for their care, and the most productive ways to organize them in the garden.
- 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!
The Cut Flower Handbook is the perfect balance of inspiration and education for anyone interested in bringing more beauty into their lives by growing cut flowers at home.
Our Thoughts
I must say that out of all the flower gardening books I have received and purchased for myself, The Cut Flower Handbook is my absolute favorite. Along with having the most gorgeous pictures, it is packed with information to help a gardener of any experience level succeed. I especially love that she details various flowers that may be good choices for your garden, along with growing, care, and everything you need to know to succeed and propagate the plant. My favorite section, however, would have to be her in-depth guide to getting your seedlings started indoors; having one of the best guides I think I have seen for gardeners to date. Overall, I consider this book a must for all gardeners!
The Cut Flower Handbook: Where to Purchase
Do you want this fantastic gardening book for yourself or someone who loves flowers? You can find The Cut Flower Handbook on Amazon.com for under $30 In hardcover or your preferred Kindle device. Who knew having fresh flowers from your garden could be so easy?
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About Susan Bewley
Susan Bewley is a professional writer who has been writing content online & in print format for over 10 years. As well, she is an alumni of the University of Louisville with a Masters Degree in Special Education. When not working as an online business consultant or ghost writing, she can be found writing on Budget Earth, on her own novel, or working with various entities in the pet industry.