If you work in the floral industry either as a grower or a designer, then you know that “chrysanthemum” is synonymous with a four letter word. You’ll often hear it roll off of customers tongues with great disgust, as if the mere sound leaving their mouth makes them shudder. “No carnations, chrysanthemums or baby’s breath,...
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Growing With Landscape Fabric
While weed suppression is our main reason for using landscape fabric, there are a few additional benefits worth noting. The first year I grew flowers, my cutting garden was a delightful jungle of flowers and waist high weeds. While I loved the process of selecting varieties, planting, tending and picking I hadn’t anticipated just how...
Going All Season Long
One of my main goals in writing this blog is to save you time and money by learning from my mistakes. To say that I learned about succession planting the hard way would be putting it mildly! The first year I grew flowers to sell, I was served a big ol’ slice of humble pie....
Ultra violet – glówny kolor 2018 roku
„Prowokacyjny, komunikuje oryginalność, pomysłowość i wizjonerskie myślenie, które wskazuje nam na przyszłość” – tak Instytut Pantone określa odcień fioletowy. Instytut Panton specjalizuje się w doradztwie kolorystycznym i co roku ogłasza odcień, który zdaniem trendsetterów, będzie królował w nadchodzącym sezonie. To już mamy nowy główny kolor 2018 roku – to głęboki, dość wyrazisty fiolet (Ultra Violet 18-3838) To jak można...