Grow These Top Perennial Cut Flowers!! Ball Seed Customer Days Education Series

hi there I'm Dave Dowling with ball cover link sales rep specialize in cut flowers and we're going to talk about Cut Flower perennials and which ones you should be growing on your farm so we're going to talk about here is Cut Flower perennials especially go down this list and just talk about these I think there's 10 or 12 of maybe 15 on here these apprentices that I think you should grow and like it says the top started on the top of the page start at the top and work your way down what's number one on there peonies because everybody should be growing peonies if you're not growing peonies you still have time to order them you need to order them by August 15th is it edney's deadline which order through ball there's still lots of peonies available you plan a three to five IP any this fall you're not gonna pick anything next year the Year 2023 but 2024 you can pick those flowers as long as you're leaving lots of leaves on the plant if it only has two stems or two flowers don't cut those then you're going to hurt the plant but as long as you're leaving lots of leaves on the plant cut the stem a little short and still leave that stump with two leaves on it you can pick them the second year from a three to five eye if you plant two to three I you have to wait another year later the students through eye is usually a dollar or two dollars less per plant to me it's worth paying that extra two dollars a plant because you're making money back a year sooner on your investment but definitely you want to grow peonies the first year not so much cutting the bow but don't let it make seeds so if in other words it's a good idea to let them bloom that first you're just you know you got the right variety because there are mistakes made whether it's in the field growing or labeling or wherever yeah it can happen let them bloom make sure you know what you got the right thing that you ordered but you can let it Bloom if you want to cut a little four inch stem and put a Juice Glass on your kitchen counter for yourself go ahead and do it but leave all the leaves on the plant and don't let it make seed heads right that's a whole nother talk about peonies put up their name main stem with a big flower and then use the three or four side buds you can disc Bud which means you take this off from about the size they pee just twist them your finger and get rid of them the big bud should get bigger and you have one flower and one stem if you're selling to a wholesaler that's the only way they will buy them they will not buy them with the side buds I left like leave the side buds on it because it filled out the vase I sold at farmers markets and the few floors that I bought to were fine with it a wholesaler would never buy it like that so that's up to you whether you want to do it is you know it's a day of going and taking all the buds off if you've got 50 plants or if you've got 500 it's going to be a lot of work so definitely going to do opinion he said listen a few varieties here to definitely go Sarah Bernhardt is the number one peony that's it right there starting to open he gets a big fat Bud if you've ever been to Whole Foods in the spring they got Sarah bernhardson the buds are as big as a baseball sometimes right before they pop open um you should go twice as many Sarah Bernhardt as any other P any other peony peony variety so if you've got 50 Coral charm you want 100 Sarah Bernhardt because you're gonna need twice as many Sarah Bernhardt as any other variety that's also one of the cheapest ones it's still under around five dollars a plant for the three to five I so it's affordable to buy a bunch of them but it is definitely the number one money making perennial there are farms that do nothing but peonies there's a growing I can't remember he's Western North Carolina he has his own tractor trailers with his name on it and all he grows is peonies it's crazy for those two and a half weeks when he's picking on the spring over 100 people picking but he has the same people come back every year because it's just quick cash on my face cash but quick money for them in the spring they paid so much for stem to pick they come back every year and spend that three two and a half weeks picking peonies and literally tractor Trail loads of penis it ships up and down the East Coast that t-shirt was talking earlier about baptisia great perennial blooms with the peonies originally there was just the blue one there on the right now there's all these other colors the top the one on the left there is called Twilight Prairie Blues there's a um the yellow one I'm not sure if that's there's one called screaming yellow and another yellow lemon meringue maybe there's what it is again it's the different companies making them you've got proven winners then you might have Walters Gardens or some other syngenta make them some other company doing the breathing and they come up with the same finished product a little bit different but baptisms is a great plant because you got the flowers that bloom around mother's uh around pee anytime then you got the seed pods to get like a little big big green fat fuzzy like a big soybean almost that you'll use those then they dry and turn black and that on like a rattle later in the year plus you use the leaves all year as a green so it's a multi-plant multi-purpose plant almost impossible to kill it it's almost also almost impossible to move it after it's established When I close my farm I let people have them if they could dig them one plant out of a couple hundred got dug they could not dig them because it's such a solid massive Roots you can't dig them up and they get to be like that yellow is probably all one plant you'll have 100 stems on one plant so you plant them about two feet apart and they just get huge and this is also known as great for growing a landscape fabric because it stays as a as a clump it doesn't spread by Runners it just all comes from the center you might need to make the hole a little bit bigger every couple years but it keeps the weeds out of the bed and we all know weeds are the most expensive thing on your farm you spend more money getting rid of weeds and controlling weeds and maybe unless you have a bunch of employees but then you're paying the employees to get rid of the weeds but Baptist you're definitely something you should be growing and those are available like I said Proven Winners so they're available to order through ball from Walter's garden and then also some of the other Creek Hill get group they also have a few of the varieties they almost all have the traditional blue that's called australius but the newer varieties each grower has a couple of them but Walters Gardens has all of the the new varieties I'm achilla or yarrow again early summer blooming especially the yellow and this is coronation gold it's another yellow one called moonshine it says right on there moonshine I don't have my glasses on um moonshine now moonshine's not as hard looking when it dries when it gets old this is the flowers getting old there it's getting really firm the Moonshine is not quite as firm looking the the yellow ones you can actually dry really easy just hang them upside down the stems get as thick as a piece of straw really sturdy the color ones on the left does not dry well they just get ugly and brown um and these also bloom a little bit later the colored ones bloom more in June whereas these are late May early June the yellow ones are grown only from rooted cuttings you don't grow seeds the ones on the left are you can buy seed the seeds like pepper dust really small like a thousand seeds doesn't even halfway fill a thimble so it's you know seeds teeny you can also order plugs for them and those of you start seeds this in the spring you have flowers the same year cloth of gold is a yellow but it's still not as stiff and sturdy as these stems this is much better especially if you're drying if you're growing for real dried flowers those are amazing for drying because they stay that color and the stem as stiff as a as a pencil really coronation cold or moonshine but this is coronation gold there but definitely grab the the arrow and those can be planted a lot of these perennials you can still plant them this time of the year in late summer and early fall and if you plant the plant now some of these yarrow would still grow and Bloom a short this year 12 or 15 inches but next spring it's a full-size plant 30 inches tall so it's it's not like you don't have to wait till next spring because if you plant new perennials in the spring they're not going as big as if you plant them this fall this is one of the ones um lives matter clitheroides gooseneck moose Drive is easy to remember it's a perennial that's a spreading Clump you plant it here it's going to creep out and get bigger it doesn't spread by seeds it only spreads by the root spreading so I like to leave it someplace where you're either going to till or mow next to it because it's going to spread blooms this time of year around here where I was down in Maryland it's more like mid-june great filler for bouquets like this time of the year if you make a mixed bouquets whereas a grocery store farmer's market you put six of these in the in your hand and put other flowers around your bouquet is done because it's got the greens for the filler plus the white flour on the top then the leaves turn red orange and yellow in the fall and you can use them as a filler again in the fall just know that as soon as you have the first freeze they're brown and crunchy so use them when they're cool but not freezing yet but only two people offer it get group does a plugs or liners and also they do a pot which is a two and a half inch pot and then Edney sells it as the bare root shipped in the spring get group has plants available now and we'll have them again in the spring but if you plant those now you'll be picking flowers off of next summer magnathema muticum Mountain mint Mountain mint is a common name but you want to make sure the best one is muticum it just has a better Leaf even though you see the little brown on the flowers there you give it a shake or rub it with the hand that comes right off and most florists don't care about that if you took the farmer's market people will still buy it it smells minty we have a whole bucket of it out in the cart if you haven't been out to the cart yet go out to see it um almost like a mild peppermint grape filler like the gooseneck glue Strife it's in the mint family has Square stems it spreads creeps a little bit so again keep it someplace where you can keep it contained but if you're growing cut flowers there is no such thing as an invasive plant that gets too big and too many that just means you have more money to make off of it more stems to pick and sell but definitely a great filler um see them this is Autumn joy to show it looks like green and it looks like in flower and it even gets later it starts to dry it's still good which just reminds me later on there's a slide on here I didn't I was supposed to add pictures from the garden and it just says add pictures I didn't add them but I went and took a picture of the seed him out in the garden here if you go out of here and go like at seven o'clock and walk way as far as you can walk past or you think you're leaving the property there's a whole bunch of perennials out there and there's some that are there's some flocks out there that's kind of the back of the bed that's tall there's the seat in there quite a few different perennials there that are growing that you could see them in in person but the great thing about this automatory is you could be picking that two weeks ago in mid-july and you start picking off the same plant since late September so that's one that when I say for the last talk plant more plant a lot more of this you know I'll plant 25 plants plant 200 of them because the other thing they do is sometimes the flower has you look in the right the flower has a really big but you can see the smaller ones down low so the smaller ones usually mixed bouquets and the big ones are more like the focal flour and then the smaller is more of a filler but a great plant to grow polygonatum or Solomon Seal this is another one I've talked earlier about that 30 to 40 percent of what floors buy or not flowers it's the greens and fillers if you think you own the flower shop the eucalyptus they got the that leatherly Fern from Florida from you they would buy Solomon Seal they'll buy eucalyptus they'll buy the mountain mint um but this is probably going to eat them Solomon Seal the one on the right is variegated the one the left is plain green see a little flower hanging on there that's not what you want you want just the green leaves so you can wait till those flowers are dead and fall off the dry up and just kind of disappear this does grow in shade it's not a full sun plant it doesn't mind dry shade so it can be under a tree and it's fine another great place to have shade and you find is along the north side of a barn or a building use that plan to still be in other shade loving plants there good thing about this you start harvesting it usually in late June when the flowers are finished it just sits there all summer unless you have some it's rare that a bug bothers but it sits all summer so you can pick on it lightly all summer you don't want to clear cut it and get rid of olive because you'll kill it off but then once you get to Mid September when the year's almost over then you're going to cut everyone because it's regenerated the root for next year you're not going to hurt it by selling every single stem so by the end of the season you're gonna start picking sometime in late June by late September you've sold every stem from there and if you can see how many stems are there it gets the point where here you got three or four hundred stems in a four foot circle and it does spread by rhizomes a little bit non-invasive it does spread and get a bigger clump um well that's the thing Walters Gardens has some that are 12 inches so whenever you're buying any perennial for cut flowers definitely look at the height because unfortunately all the new breeding is the shorter they can get it the better it is for them because they want a little short stuff for the little city Gardens especially like flocks there's flocks at the minority that's 12 inches tall make sure you get the tall ones the variegated as table height there's one called gigantium is even taller but I put the name on that I think gigantium and very very Gotham um but great plant but that florist in Baltimore um Ellen Frost with local colored flowers are only buys locally grown flowers has never bought an imported flower or flower from California florist in business 12 months out of the year out of Baltimore this is her favorite green her favorite plant as soon as it's available she buys it and buys it by hundreds of dollars worth a week as long as it's available until the end of the season so it's definitely something to sell to you for us because it's tall enough to go in that big tall like the hotel lobby kind of arrangement this is companionless Superba glamorada it's just also called clustered Bellflower blooms in June we usually probably around here second or third week of June you can see how tall it gets over here it's maybe 24 inches tall comes in a purpley blue color and also a light lavender and there's also a white too um great because it blooms right after peeing it's kind of that time you don't have a lot of stuff yet really good for mixed bouquet the flour itself is maybe about the size of a golf ball you throw those little flowers together that little cluster at the top and again it spreads Slowly by rhizomes it doesn't reseed across the field but it just spreads and gets a bigger patch and the bigger the patch gets the more you can grow more you can sell flocks I'd like to think the name they left for me but they didn't it's been around longer than me um David is a really tall white one sometimes five feet tall and the David's lavender there's a nursery in Maryland that found that in their patch of David one year and they were smart they got it patented and they've made a fortune off of it because they discovered this new variety of flocks just happened naturally and they reproduce it it's it's stable it stays that color doesn't revert back to the white and so they got the patent and they got to make all the money on it but those are two varieties work greatest cut flowers both in mildew resistant there are some flocks out in the garden out here there's the Kapow k-a-p-o-w series those are the tall ones get to be 30 inches tall not the little short ones um but Fox is great the trick with that is these are both too old to pick for to use you want to pick it with just a couple of the little florets are open and then they'll open up in the vase and then if you do have them where they're too open you just give them a shake and brush off the loose ones because you can see this that's the little buds inside that are going to open so even though it might shed a little bit throughout the week it still lasts well over a week it also has a great scent if you go out in the print of your garden go and lean over and smell them it's really sweet floral scent and another nice thing about these is they will over will re-bloom again in the fall if when you pick it you leave like a six inch stump it'll Branch off in the leaves and gives you flowers again in late September Monarda or b-bomb um they have it out in the perennial garden they cut it all back so it probably had powder and mildew real bad or something or it's finished blooming because it blooms in early July which is nice if you see the Jacob climb it's a bright red fireworks looking and it blooms the Fourth of July so you can't beat that for a Fourth of July flower to sell being Menard it does spread and creep a little bit it's not invasive it just gets to be a bigger Clump there the Jacob Klein is tall four feet tall um great flower you pick when they're just starting to open and you also see the little calyx on the bottom we've got the the pinkish color the reddish that also just adds to the to the interest of the flower there's one called Raspberry wine that's a kind of the raspberry color um something great if you're making mixed bouquets it is called bee bomb bumble bees are going to be all over honeybees they want the flower go ahead pick the flowers unless you grab with your hand they're not going to bother you but great in mixed bouquets and also have a kind of herbally scent it's it's not flowery just plant scent this smells good Fourth of July early July that's why I said the red is perfect for this like fireworks and a red white and blue Arrangement or any Arrangement then astelby this is a printing a lot of people don't think about growing definitely much better in the shade um I know some people have grown in the Sun that just struggles because you can keep it watered enough I'm like we're saying in the north side of your barn the north side of a fence along the tree line to give it shade or if you don't have shade you can always build a shade structure which you need to build like a high tunnel and just put shave cloth on it no plastic or we have posts on the corners Cable in the top and just shave across them on top of that to give your plants shade the one on the left is bridal veil that can go over three feet tall on the right is you know amethyst that's I think I make the amethyst but if if you look at a still be anyone that's over 24 inches is fine or goes to cut flower it's not anyone else maybe good or bad as long as they're at least 24 inches you're fine the other thing with these when you pick them you're picking it's a stem of flour and maybe one little leaf on it so you can pick every flower and it's not going to hurt the plant so you never want to leave anything behind you pick them when they're about half open these on the right a little too far you want to still be about half buds at the top and flowers in the bottom half this Equinox or Globe thistle um the plants look prickly but they're not it's not like a stick of bush that's going to get you bees do like it usually would pick it just as it's starting to open the one on the left of the bees is a little bit past what you want it's just that neat steel blue color and it's a late mid to late July bloomer it can reseed if you don't pick all the flowers but if you're in the business selling cut flowers I hope you picked all the flowers and sold them don't let them go to seed you can start these from seed but they won't bloom to the second year it's a second year blooming perennial or you can buy plugs if they're vernalized plugs which are the ones that have been started last year given a cold winter period you plant them in the spring they'll Bloom the first year Joe pie wheat or eupatorium I don't know if that grows wild up here around the streams and stuff yeah but that's the one that's like six seven eight feet tall that's not what you want you want I didn't put the name Little Joe it's on the on the paper Little Joe um goes to be three and a half four feet tall great plant you want to harvest it when it's still in Bud stage like on the left one on the right it's just a pretty picture with the butterfly on it um the other thing with these if you wait till the plant's about eight inches tall and pinch them they'll Branch out and you get much more manageable stems if you let it grow like that if you see the one picture on the left you pick that you have so many side shoots that aren't tall enough to use for anything but if you would pinch that other side shoots would have grown taller and you would have had eight or ten tall stems as opposed to one big one and all the little side shoots that are no good air Ramirez this is hi my name is Foxtail Lily um you plant it in the fall sometimes you can find it in the spring um Edney offers it in the fall I don't know if any other suppliers should ball offer some even but edny has them in the fall this picture in the right was actually from my farm those plants were only about four years old there um they're maybe four feet tall sometimes five feet tall the nice thing about them is if you look them on the left the bottom flower is starting to maybe look a little old just pull them off and the rest of this thing's fine kinda like if you see a glavioli got one bad flower in the bottle and pick it off and nobody's going to miss it these are the same way very long lasting sometimes two weeks in the vase it's not something that shifts well for two reasons it's geotropic which means the delay in the Box the ends are going to curl Plus you put in a box that gets smushed and they don't always come unsmush very well it's kind of like Delphinium they don't well they don't travel well in a box so if you grow these locally and you have florists that do big events like they're doing the wedding with the big church pieces or hotel pieces they'll buy these every year from you because they know it's that statement flower for that big Arrangement they need to make where they're making this 400 arrangement for the hotel lobby of the the Hyatt to the florist probably two or three dollars a stem yeah and at a farmer's market to a customer maybe five dollars and the other thing is it's hard to see there if you look in the picture on the right to some there's much smaller um they're kind of like a peony the first year plan which takes a couple years to get established and you get the big flowers but they're always putting out some smaller side shoots and more bouquet size they might sell for a dollar a dollar fifty that'll fit in a bouquet not necessarily the big huge Hotel arrangement but it's definitely something to grow that was actually just bare soil that we put down shredded leaves on you I do know people have grown it in landscape fabric and it keeps the weeds out um this is also a big root so if you are using chemical weed prevention it would work for it um you know something like the treflam which is preem they put down in the spring before the weeds Sprout it would keep the seasons from it would not affect the plant because the big tuberous root if you ever planted asparagus it's like that big fingers of roots with eyes coming up in the middle but a great plant to go and definitely a conversation starter if you have a bucket of the farmers market I always like to tell the story I was at the Dupont Circle Market in DC had a bucket of these two women are digging through picking up the ones they want because I sold everything by the stem they stand up and look at each other and they were Neighbors in Europe both moved to DC didn't know they'd moved to DC and they used to be neighbors in Europe years ago so small world seven dollars to send to the florist the big tall ones like that big one so yeah like three for about the same price right yeah that's something you do when you're selling the floor so still keep your price like you had seven dollars for the big one or seven dollars for three small ones as long as that the forest know that today you're getting three small ones for that price same like with the Winterberry Holland the earlier talk you can have that one big stem for five bucks or two smaller ones or five just had to make sure the florist knows they're getting you would call them smaller Juniors or whatever you want to call them you probably if you get something a cute name it always helps you know like don't call them the side shoots call them the air marriage junior or petite aramaris give them an acute name and it helps sell this stuff but definitely I recommend selling this winter how to do zone five important is good winter drainage it's hard to see here but these were raised beds a good 12 inches or maybe eight inches high the trick with planting them because they're such big like the asparagus prep your bed lay them on the soil and then add two two inches of soil on top of them so you don't have to dig that hole that's that big around prep your bed and add more soil that makes the bed even higher and you didn't have to try and get all those little legs and feed in there with the fingers and that gets the battery is a little bit higher and you see it had drip tape on there but rarely ever had to use the drip tape because like a daffodil they bloom first part of June and the June the plants are dead they're gone dormant so you don't have to water them all summer they just sit there that's when you keep the weeds out one trick for keeping weeds out of the bed like this or if you have daffodils that die down completely once it died back naturally and everything's dead put a piece of landscape fabric over it just take it off in November kills the weeds all summer you take up in November they still get the cold winter and you're good to go it's kept the weeds out all summer even after you had to cut one you've cut the flowers the leaves or died the leaves gonna die three or four weeks after you pick it okay this isn't like a flock that stays green all year it's like a daffodil they die back then you or an allium does the same it dies back put landscape fabric over it take it up in the fall the trick is if you put in landscape fabric got to make sure you don't have holes because voles will get in there and it's like Smorgasbord you just give them a place to eat so you gotta make sure you have some hungry cats on your farm to keep keep the voles in away but definitely think about growing the foxtail lilies um agastashi or a hyssop a lot of people don't think of this as a cut flower but it's kind of this filler but it also has a really cool licorice scent to the foliage there is some of it growing out here just lean over and scratch and sniff it and just you'll smell it it's just a neat flower or plant to put in you can use just the green foliage or wait till it blooms it's blooming this time of the year mid to late summer it's kind of that Dusty muted blue color it's not a bright color but it works and just so you know that in the background there's some limelight hydrangea amazing hydrangea plant blooms in Late July early August that's not what you want to pick it wait till September it starts turn pink and green as papery feeling they last forever and your customer is much happier you pick them white and fleshy in August they might last three days and they go bad and that's that's not good for business and then um Plata Conan or balloon flower um it's called balloon flower so you can see in the upper right upper left picture of the flower before it opens the big puffy balloon that'll turn really blue and then it pops open a little five star five-pointed star-shaped flower late summer Bloomer blooms around now into August in August um it's also when the last Apprentice come up in the spring I've known people who thought it was dead and tilled up and then it wasn't dead it just hadn't come up yet whereas most of your other perennials are up you know around your last frost date this isn't up for another couple weeks later it's really late to break dormancy in the spring um lasts all week long lasting looks fragile but it's not and comes in blue pink and white make sure you get the variety called Fuji which is tall like Mount Fuji it's tall there are new ones again the plant breeding and you're lucky if they're four inches tall you know they look the same in the seed packet they look the same with the little baby plug but they don't grow to be four inches tall so make sure you get the tall varieties um they do have a Milky sap almost like a poinsettia sap I never had a problem with sometimes that milky SAP with us on this or sloppiest can give you a rash on your arms where if you get your eye is not good usually so be careful of that but I never had a problem with it and then this is where I was supposed to go out in the garden tell you to go down there to look at the plants and I was supposed to tell you that's there but those are at the blooming you've got flocks see the machinations the McKinley out there the echinacea is out in the garden some of them are amazing colors it's like I don't know if the other one called tomato soup but it's like bright red bright orange just the colors are nothing like the old um purple coneflower of 20 years ago that was kind of drab and just boring the colors now are amazing and 15 years ago they came out with a bunch of these new colors but they weren't tough plants I think they released them too soon they weren't winter hardy the ones now they're winter hardy if you go to the established perennial garden you see the ones have been there for sometimes two or three years I think on the label it tells you the year they were planted you see that's been there for three years in Chicago it can take the winter um now here's some Cut Flower resources that everybody want to look at these um the association especially cut fire Growers is a cut off our organization mainly North America U.S and Canada but has members around the U.S it's a great organization to learn what you're doing I know when I joined it 25 years ago I went from here to here in one year just because you went to a conference and found all these new things you could grow and stuff like that it has a magazine comes out quarterly a great online stuff a online Facebook group online all their other past conferences are recorded you can watch them online a great thing to to join wall seed has a cut flower web page so if you go to ballseed.com backslash cut flowers they started that last last December not quite a year ago I know right after it was started it was their second most visited web page on their website which I was kind of proud of that I hope it still lives I haven't checked lately it is still good good um but it's a place where you put all the Cut Flower info Cut Flower catalogs whether it's an add me Lily catalog a cut fire brochure from cicada or the seed companies of just a cut fire products you're not going to go there and see petunias and impatience it's nothing but cut flowers books if actually somewhere here they should be able to find books out here if you want the actual paper cups most of them there are paper copies some there's not paper it's just online only but the paper ones that have them here somewhere I don't know where did it come in the mail you have to ask for them individually they don't just send them automatically okay yeah um but but if you can go to that website it's got lots of great information there's also on there where you can sign up for my Cut Flower email list where I send an email out a couple times a month sometimes just reminding you it's time to order this if you want it order your peonies now because the deadline's two weeks from now um sometimes I just don't want to talk my cabbage worms on Cut Flower kale so it's not always trying to sell you something it's just awesome information yeah I wasn't sure where they were right yeah out on your left um The Gardener's Workshop is an online website lots of free information she does every Wednesday 11 30 a free ask the farmer on Instagram just whatever you want to ask her and I'm doing it for next week she's on vacation so I'm next Thursday next Wednesday 11 30 to be me and this is Eastern time so 10 30 central time um lots of free information on her website plus Josh has online classes you can take if you want to do that growing from Market is a monthly newsletter it's only 11 months ago I think they take December off growingfitmarket.com you can either get the printed one it's geared to a lot of vegetable growing for growing from market like selling at farmers markets but there's always a column in there for cut flowers currently at Steven Gretel from Sunny Meadows Farm who's writing the column um blue Bloom beat e-newsletter that's a new newsletter started about three months ago by um grower talks which is a ball company here um you can sign up for that at growertalks.com newsletters and then I have my Cut Flower email list which if you go to the Cut Flower website at ballceed.com cut flowers you can sign up for that and that's my email list some books you definitely want to read if you haven't read the flower farmer by Lynn bazinski she is retired now but she started the uh growing from Market magazine but then she sold it because she wanted to retire she's old older now she's retirement age um but her her book is growing flowers everything from starting to see what to grow how to grow it and it's on the organic principle so if you don't have to do organic but the book is written for organic growing and then she also wrote a book called The Hoop house handbook which is all about growing cut flowers and hoop houses both of those are available from growing from market and I'm pretty sure the ascfg also sells both of those books there's a really big thick almost like encyclopedia book called specially cut flowers by Alan Armitage and also Judy lauschmitt the association cut flowers help with that one the new addition it's lots of information not a lot of pictures so if you're a book reader it's great but it's really detailed it tells you what variety to grow when to plant it how fertilizer all that kind of stuff and then there's another book called Woody cut stems um earlier I talked in the last talk about the Woody stems like hydrangeas and things like that it's a book that's done by langrier and John Dole but it's now published by the ascfg because the original publisher didn't want to publish it anymore you can find it on Amazon for a couple hundred dollars but asafg is selling for about 60 and they print on demand but it's a real thick book if you want to grow any Woody shrubs as a cut stem you should have that book there's one of the book I didn't put on this called post Harvest care and handling of Fresh Cuts flowers and greens again it's a book from the ascfg it's again an encyclopedia kind of book has a picture of every flower you can imagine when to pick it and how to take care of it after you harvest whether it needs to be in a cooler Flower Food strip the stems whatever you do to take care of it another great book to have I'm happy to answer your Cut Flower questions but if you need help entering order and stuff you suppose it's called the color Lake office

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