Cut Flower Farm Tour | Early Summer Australia | Noble Flowers

It's early summer and despite floods and freakish cold weather, we have flowers! I'll take you on a comprehensive walk through the flower farm.
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BACK STORY
May 2020 we started a flower farm in North East Victoria, Australia. Moroni, utilising his Agricultural Engineering skills, and Phaedra drawing on her years of artistic pursuits. Neither of us had grown flowers, neither had farmed. We didn't have any large equipment, and we had started up on a very tight budget.
Our climate zone is: In Australia we are right on the edge of Mild Temperate (Zone 6) and Cool Temperate (Zone 7). In the USA this is close to zone 8B. Our lowest temperature in Winter is around -5 degrees Celsius, our top temperature in Summer reaches up to 42 degrees Celsius at least a couple of times each Summer.
This is the story of our farm, our florist business and our lifestyle. Enjoy!
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[@BatoulYassine-e7t]

Thanks for video keep going greeting from morocco

[@phaedragardeness]

Hello! Thats awesome you are watching from Morocco! Thanks for letting me know!

[@explorewithbaruah]

So big flower farming 🕊️

[@phaedragardeness]

Thankyou!

[@nicomyth]

I feel like a dried wreath of dusty Miller and Sea Holly would be so gorgeous.

[@phaedragardeness]

Oh that would be so beautiful!!! Which reminds me I need to plant more dusty Miller (I’d forgotten! So Thankyou!!).

[@YTEEsenior]

If you have a wildlife problem, you should purchase a trail camera and that will identify your pest on video.

[@phaedragardeness]

Years ago we had them! We should get some again, it was kinda fun checking the photos too.

[@janeb1400]

Hope you had a lovely family day yesterday. Lazy Boxing Day today 😉

[@phaedragardeness]

Hello! Thankyou! Yes we are having the biggest rest!!!! The week between Christmas and New Year is perfect.. no one knows what day it is.. we don’t do much haha.

[@flowerfolkfarm3553]

Hi gorgeous one!! So great to see your update and tour! Gosh it’s been crazy this season!! The weather and now weed pressure is crazy!! This is only my second season & I have had weather problems during both, including hail storm damage last season & now flooding this season 😅 baptism of fire!! How good is feverfew?!! I’m loving it to! This is my first year of doing sea holly & I love it!! Totally understand your stance with dahlias 😉 I like your thinking 🙌🏼 Blessings for the new year lovely!! Cheers to you and many many blooms!! 💐💝🌼 xx

[@phaedragardeness]

Hi Anita! You always leave a lovely comment 💕. You’ve had a very rough introduction to flower farming 😩. Hang in there, I think we will always have something to deal with but the flowers (what survives) make up for it. Yep… the weeds are insane. So hard keeping on top of them now. I’ve been going around cutting seed heads off before they mature so at least they don’t spread. Xx

[@madonnaschmid7707]

Great tour! Glad you keep pushing along, it will turn out wonderful:)

[@phaedragardeness]

Thankyou so much!

[@ButterflyBox89]

Have you thought about raising the beds using a hugelkultur technique. It might be a project you can do in autumn and might help with the flooding as essentially you’ll be keeping the plant roots above the flood line and stopping the plants from going anaerobic. It’s a technique that I’ve used a few times after a friend of mine who started a small farm introduced me to it. But I keep thinking maybe it would be a good solution. And happy holidays 🥰

[@phaedragardeness]

I had to google that! What a great idea!!!! We have all of the resources we need too. I’ll show Moroni. Thankyou! Merry Christmas!!

[@life_with_ty12]

Your garden is amazing

[@phaedragardeness]

Wow Thankyou so much Tyler!!

[@riverunner9978]

So glad to see you have encouragement! Great progress in the flowers. I’ll enjoy watching your harvests. I have to sew floating row cover for all my shrubs and items deer like. Here the deer eat and consume right down to the roots. You could look for deer tracks they are easily identified.

[@phaedragardeness]

Yikes that’s terrible! How destructive!!! Thankyou for your comment!

[@nettypets]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and all the best for 2023.

[@phaedragardeness]

Thanks Nettie!!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you also!

[@sarahmunoz14]

Great tour! Nice to see all you have happening. I have only successfully grow one type of pumpkin vertically (smaller Connecticut Filed pumpkin). I don’t bother anymore and give space to smaller winter squash like butternut,honey nut, spaghetti squash. My favorite cooking pumpkin (Long Island cheese) gets to sprawl. Funny bout the weeding raspberry. I pulled mine to replace with dahlias and it took several rounds of weeding to get up runners and roots. Switched to thornless blackberries in wine barrels. Most people might think it smells too strong but I make a lovely bouquet with sage leaves/flowers and sunflowers. I use the lemon balm and oregano too besides mint and basil. Happy holidays!

[@phaedragardeness]

I hope my pumpkin will grow over my arbour!!! I have butternut too.. will it not climb? I can’t believe our friends weeded the raspberries THAT good. I was devastated. I love the idea of thornless blackberries in wine barrels!

[@sarahmunoz14]

@@phaedragardeness They will climb. I plant 2 butternut on a trellis/arbor (3ft wide). It’s good to help them by tying ( I use garden Velcro tape) the vine especially where they develop heavy fruit.

[@minipenandme]

Funny about the dahlias this time last year I had heaps and I thought I have done something wrong when I transplant them when I saw you having problem with dahlias I didn’t feel so bad I’m not the only one even though I’m sorry that neither of us had beautiful days but I’m glad to see that your farm is okay after all that water and flooding you are beautiful young couple you’ll make it and I do wish you all the luck and Merry Christmas

[@phaedragardeness]

Hello Thankyou! I think the weather was just too cold and wet in Spring for the Dahlias. Most of us had issues!!

[@cheriedodd9358]

Good on you for keep going despite the flooding etc you have had! Do you have any tips for stopping earwigs eating dahlias? Thanks for showing us your gardens 👍

[@phaedragardeness]

Thankyou! Apparently you can make a beer trap with linseed oil (like how you do it for snails, but with linseed). I haven’t tried that. But if you leave damp rolled up newspaper around the garden they crawl in there and you throw the whole thing in the bin!

[@mimosaheritageplantfarm3296]

Great tour, thanks. I have a apricot tree. I live near Orange NSW so cool climate. It thrives. Gone through drought too. It's been in around 5 years. I think you would be successful with one. My favourite.

[@phaedragardeness]

Oh wow! Orange is colder than here. Do you have it in the ground or a pot? I’ll try again!

[@mimosaheritageplantfarm3296]

@@phaedragardeness in the ground. Out in ooen paddock.

[@EvelynM-vlogs]

rabbits will chomp on gladiolas as well as sunflowers according to google. Deer on the other hand, don't like glads. I sell all my left over (dinnerplate) dahlia tubers as started plants. In Canada - the westcoast, this came out on xmas eve afternoon.

[@phaedragardeness]

Ah thats a great idea to sell them as started plants! Wish we thought of that, we know for next season Thankyou! Yeah I don’t think it’s a deer either, I think we would have noticed it!

[@EvelynM-vlogs]

@@phaedragardeness now if someone could tell me what eats a lot of my green poppy pods every year? Grrrr.

[@hungariancottageadventure77]

lovely our, re the deer problem I think you'd see droppings much bigger than the rabbit but similar in shape, I get deer in my Hungarian garden they always leave droppings. Happy Christmas to you and your family.

[@phaedragardeness]

Merry Christmas!! I don’t think it’s deer.. there is no signs now we have looked harder. We have some very destructive birds here called cockatoos… and it might be them.

[@kendyb9555]

Re:your sun flowers being eaten we've had cockies do this exact same damage! Not sure if you have them near by, but keep an eye out for them.

[@phaedragardeness]

Ohhhhh we have them around I didn’t think of that! Ok I’m going on the lookout!

[@kendyb9555]

@@phaedragardeness They are destructive little buggers at times. I've had them eat leeks to the ground just for fun and pull out my garlic plants too as well as completely destroy cauliflower heads. I wouldn't have thought it was cockies until one day their poop gave them away! ha ha

[@maylyang7332]

That is deer ate them. I have same problem with my flowers.

[@phaedragardeness]

We have never seen deer here!

[@helenmcintosh9747]

were in Australia are you x

[@phaedragardeness]

Hello! We are North East Vic - 30mins out of ALbury Wodonga ;)

[@PeonyandRoses]

Tesselar was such a disappointment for me… bought gladiolus bulbs from Tesselar and they were infected with a fungal infection, I had to destroy them and disinfect the soil; hydrangea and purple fountain grass arrived almost dead - couldn’t save hydrangea but I’ve managed to save the grass by cutting it right back. Will never buy again from them.

[@phaedragardeness]

Oh no!!!! I have purchased a lot of glad bulbs through them and I haven’t had a problem but that would be so disappointing :(. I’m glad you could save the grass!

[@ebonyknox8473]

Thanks so much for the tour! But.. where was Jamesy? We play "Where's Jamesy" in each video I watch with my 2.5year old daughter!! Also, are you growing any Cliffs Salmon dahlia this year?

[@phaedragardeness]

Oops!!! I can’t think why he wasn’t in this one!!! We do have Cliffs Salmon in I think? I had some!

[@NATALIE_W_]

Could be a hare that's chomping off your plants. I have the same issue here every new plant has to be guarded or they just chomp them off.

[@phaedragardeness]

They got a heap of our young new trees 😭.

[@thepotager9816]

Kangaroo, deer, rabbits, possums?

[@phaedragardeness]

Someone suggested Cockatoos!! They might be right!

[@MachingaSpiritTree]

I think a sulfur crested bit my sunflower off the stem

[@phaedragardeness]

They are very destructive 😭