Notes from the Flower Farm
All About Asters
China Asters are long-day plants meaning they grow vegetatively as the days are getting longer throughout spring and early early summer. After the summer solstice, the longest day of the...
All About Asters
China Asters are long-day plants meaning they grow vegetatively as the days are getting longer throughout spring and early early summer. After the summer solstice, the longest day of the...
Perennials for Autumn Planting
In our warm climate, Autumn is the best time to sow seed and plant perennials. This is a list of some of my favourite perennials for your cutting garden. There...
Perennials for Autumn Planting
In our warm climate, Autumn is the best time to sow seed and plant perennials. This is a list of some of my favourite perennials for your cutting garden. There...
Autumn in the Cutting Garden - Jobs List
It’s such a wonderful time in the garden as the weather cools and we (hopefully) start to get some rain. But it’s also incredibly busy and the myriad of jobs...
Autumn in the Cutting Garden - Jobs List
It’s such a wonderful time in the garden as the weather cools and we (hopefully) start to get some rain. But it’s also incredibly busy and the myriad of jobs...
Our Icons
In our book, Secrets from the Flower Farm, and on our seed packets we include icons to indicate key information and features about a particular plant. You can find the...
Our Icons
In our book, Secrets from the Flower Farm, and on our seed packets we include icons to indicate key information and features about a particular plant. You can find the...
Discover Heirloom Chrysanthemums
Most of us are familiar with the sturdy, softball-sized, ‘disbud mums’ and sprays of daisy-shaped chrysanthemum flowers (mums). Commercial growers produce many hundreds of thousands of stems year-round in greenhouses in...
Discover Heirloom Chrysanthemums
Most of us are familiar with the sturdy, softball-sized, ‘disbud mums’ and sprays of daisy-shaped chrysanthemum flowers (mums). Commercial growers produce many hundreds of thousands of stems year-round in greenhouses in...
Winter on the Flower Farm
Winter on the Flower Farm is a special time. We're busy digging and dividing dahlias, pruning roses and laying compost around the perennial shrubs. Our days are full but there's...
Winter on the Flower Farm
Winter on the Flower Farm is a special time. We're busy digging and dividing dahlias, pruning roses and laying compost around the perennial shrubs. Our days are full but there's...