Red is a high-visibility primary colour. Depending on where you're from and what you've experienced, it’s often associated with passion, love, power, strength, and urgency. In the garden, I tend to associate red with fall rather than spring, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be an ... Continue Reading
Cut Flower Seed Starting Schedule
If you want to grow cut flowers in your garden, seed starting is pretty much a given. While there are some flowers you can direct sow, for most varieties in most climates, seed starting will yield the best results. In this blog post, I've included a selection of some common ... Continue Reading
35+ Annuals for Your Cold Climate Cut Flower Garden
Growing annual cut flowers from seed can be incredibly rewarding. While seed starting does require significant work upfront, the effort pays off abundantly in July and August when your garden bursts with beautiful blooms that are often impossible to source without growing them ... Continue Reading
How to Grow Delphiniums from Seed in Zone 3
Delphiniums are one of my favourite perennials to grow. I love their beautiful blue hues and they're always a welcome sight sometime in early July. In bouquets, they can be a bit tricky to use, so I often prefer to use the side shoots. My favourite colour is the light blue with ... Continue Reading
Greenhouse Growing in Cold Climates: A Prairie Gardener’s Guide
Acquiring a greenhouse is a big step as a gardener which allows you to both harden things off a lot easier and to extend your season. I want to start by chatting about the particular greenhouse we use on the acreage. It's a polycarbonate structure and I'll tell you the story ... Continue Reading
20+ Perennial Flowers to Grow in Your Cutting Garden
My gateway into cut flowers was perennials. When I was younger my mom and dad had a beautiful lily garden in front of our little shop, as well as a more manicured space by our dugout laden with delphiniums and other beautiful perennials (I for some reason only remember the ... Continue Reading
The 35 Best Cut Flowers to Feed Your Floral Arranging Habit All Summer Long
If you’ve been reading this blog or following me on Instagram for a while, you might have noticed that flowers for cutting make up a lot of my pictures. Ever since I was a little girl, I've been obsessed with growing flowers and turning them into bouquets. To feed my obsession, I ... Continue Reading
How to Start a Vegetable Garden
Do you want to start a vegetable garden but have literally no clue how? Do your eyes glaze over when you start to do your research and it gets too complicated? What are zones? How do you prep your soil? What should you plant? How do you keep it from dying? If these are the ... Continue Reading
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