Cut Flower Gardening For Beautiful Bouquets
Imagine a never-ending supply of beautiful flowers for your home, bouquets and arrangements to give to friends, flowers to pluck at will for gifts, get-well visits, anniversaries and birthdays. By planting a garden stocked with flowers that happily give up their blooms for your pleasure, you can have fresh flower arrangements in every room in your home all throughout the spring and summer.To create your own bouquet garden, start with a sunny spot in your yard. A garden spot that gets 6 to 8 hours of direct sun a day is ideal. It should be within easy reach for watering, since a cut flower garden will need daily watering during any dry spells. You'll also want to design it to make it easy for you to reach all the flowers in it, so a raised bed that can be approached on four sides is perfect.
If you decide to plant against a fence or as a border, make sure that you can get to all the plants without stepping on others by putting in footpaths or trenches for walking.The best way to start your cut flower garden is with bulbs planted in the autumn. Daffodils and tulips are among the most popular spring bouquet flowers. By getting them in the ground in the autumn, you'll be able to start cutting early in the spring.Some more unusual spring-flowering bulbs that make gorgeous cut flowers include:Giant flowering onion ? Grows 3-4 feet tall, with huge purple blooms. Great as a back border in a cut flower garden. Blossoms from mid-spring through early summerWindflower ? also known as anemone, with daisy like deep pink and white flowers, booms through midsummerCrocus ? blooms in early spring, though there are varieties that bloom through autumnHyacinth ? Tall clusters of blossoms that are stunning in arrangements.
Pink, blue, purple and white, they grow up to 12 inches tall. Bloom in early to mid-summer from fall planting.Grape Hyacinth- Purple flowers that bloom in autumn and remain green throughout the winter?although it's dormant in the summer.Early in the spring, you can start planting gladiolus. These huge, showy blooms are a mainstay of cut flower arrangements, and come in just about every color imaginable. Gladiolus bulbs can be planted as early as two weeks before the last frost. If you plant a new set of gladiolus every two weeks, you'll have cut flowers from early summer all the way through the first frost.Roses are an entire subject of their own, but they deserve special mention when discussing cut flower gardens.
Rambling and climbing varieties of roses are especially suited to cut flower gardens, putting out masses of blooms and responding to cutting with even more flowers. Trail a rambling rose along a wooden fence rail and you'll have sweet-smelling roses for your bedroom dresser all summer long.Also in early spring, you can plant your annuals. Snapdragons, cosmos and zinnias all bloom at different times during the summer, which will extend your ?bouquet season' into the fall.Don't forget to include ?filler' flowers in your cut flower garden. Foliage grasses and flowers like alyssum, baby's breath, and Queen Anne's Lace can fill spaces in your bouquets and add a lacy, delicate touch to a vase full of flowers..
This article courtesy of http://www.about-flowers.com'Snipped In The Bud,' Kate Collins's Fourth Wild And Witty Flower Shop Mystery Series, is in Bookstores This May
Valparaiso, IN (ContentDesk) April 28, 2006 -- Flowers can be murder.
Just ask Kate Collins, author of the best-selling Flower Shop Mystery series, whose latest book, "Snipped in the Bud," will hit the bookshelves May 2nd.
Kate's snappy, humorous plots revolve around a feisty, fireball of a sleuth, Abby Knight, a twenty-six-year-old law school flunk-out, her cozy little flower shop named Bloomers, and the zany characters who work there. The books have drawn praise from fans all over the world."Abby is a flawed woman," Collins admits. "Readers identify with her struggles, laugh at her mishaps, and root for her successes."Collins, who claims residency in Indiana as well as Key West, Florida, admits she draws a lot of inspiration from her small town roots, as well as from art she's seen in studios all over the Florida keys.
One of her characters is a wannabe sculptress whose creations have been known to cause people to faint dead away.The Flower Shop Mystery series...
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A Look at Flower Bulbs for Sale
When people decide to grow flowers, they have many choices. They can buy potted flowers and replant them. If they are extremely patient, they can grow flowers from seeds. They can also grow flowers from clippings of other plants. One of the most popular ways of growing flowers, however, is to grow them from flower bulbs.
A huge variety of flowers can be grown from bulbs, including lilacs, lilies, daylilies, cannas, tulips, gladiolus, crocuses, daffodils, dahlias, and many more.Many people choose flower bulbs for their ease of planting and colorful flowers. Growing bulbs is virtually foolproof. Finding flower bulbs for sale is just as easy. You can buy flower bulbs at local nurseries and landscape supply stores. Some home improvement stores like Lowe's or Home Depot offer flower bulbs for sale.
Many department stores, such as Wal-Mart, also sell flower bulbs. At certain times of the year, discount stores, such as 99 Cents Only, Dollar Tree, or Dollar General, sell flower...
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Online Florists
Flowers say you care. A gift of flowers brings about feelings of love, joy and contentment. Whether the occasion is a birthday, anniversary, or a gesture to tell someone you love them or are thinking about them --flowers are the way to do it. Flowers can really say it all in a very special way.
Today, with Internet technology, sending someone flowers is as easy as sitting in your bedroom in your pajamas and surfing through various florists online to choose a gift.
There are thousands of online florists and virtually millions of arrangements to choose from. You can surf as many virtual flower shops you want, look through several designs, varieties and price tags before deciding on a purchase. It's so much easier than going to a flower shop.
Most online florists also stock additional gifts, in addition to flowers to add a little something extra to your delivery. These may include exotic plants, artificial flower bouquets, chocolates and cuddly toys. Virtual...
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The Venus Flower Basket - Symbol of Love
One of the most beautiful of all the creatures that live in the oceans is the rare and very seldom seen Venus flower basket. It only grows on the ocean floor at depths of three thousand to five thousand feet, in the warm tropical waters of the South Pacific, mostly around the Philippines and Japan.
This creature is actually a sponge; however it does not look anything like the sponges you use for cleaning in your home. It is extremely beautiful, intricate, and dainty. When full grown the Venus flower basket is tube shaped and about twelve inches long, usually with some slight curvature.
It looks like it is made up of an intricate fine lace expertly spun in glass fibers no thicker than human hair. It is woven in the form of a hollow tube shaped like a rams horn. The smaller, tapered end is anchored to the ocean floor by a multitude of fine glass-like fibers. The larger end has a lacey looking cap over it.
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Birthday Flower Arrangements
If you have a friend or relative's birthday coming up and you don't quite know what to give her, flowers could be a good idea. If you can't choose the flowers, leave it to a florist, he will ask you questions about the birthday girl and select the flowers accordingly. Besides sending on beautiful flowers, florists' websites also send fruit baskets and personal care items as birthday gifts.
If you've decided on flowers, you can choose flowers specific for her birth month. If her birthday is in January, send her carnations; in February, violets; March, jonquils; April, sweet peas; May, lilies; June, roses; July, larkspurs; August, gladioli; September, asters; October, calendulas; November, chrysanthemums; and December, narcissuses.
For younger women and girls, your flower arrangements could be based on a flower theme for her birthday party. You could create large paper blooms, perhaps of sunflowers, and do up T-shirts with flowers in...
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Flower Delivery in New York
As is the case with any large city, you can become overwhelmed with the options for sending flowers. If you need to send a gift, New York flower delivery services are plenty. If you are not familiar with any particular business, it may be wise to ask friends or family (or even the florist) for referrals or recommendations.
If your quest for referrals in finding the perfect florist for you needs is null, you can always do an Internet search. You can also utilize the services of national floral deliveries (FTD) or 1800Flowers.com.
These and other national companies will deliver to New York; different companies may or may not charge additional processing or delivery fees.
Blossom Flower Shop is a time-tested florist. With over 80 years of experience in the floral industry, they guarantee you will be satisfied with your purchase. This is a family owned company with 4 generations of floral experts at your service. Blossom Flower Shop delivers to all...
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