Spring cut flowers that fill the blooming gaps!

[@ogadlogadl490]

This is THE most informative “cut flower” channel, I believe you speak to us who are in the middle ground of learning, we aren’t novices and maybe not an expert such as your self. I appreciate all the work you are putting into your videos. Thank you!

[@floristsonfarms]

Awe you are so kind, thank you for your encouragement and I’m so glad that you are finding my videos helpful! ❤️

[@conniegodyn6616]

Love the annual/perennial combo ideas. As always, gorgeous bouquets 😊

[@floristsonfarms]

Awesome, hope it was helpful and thanks so much for your support and encouragement!

[@kathystarnes6744]

Fantastic information! Thank you!💚💚💚

[@floristsonfarms]

Glad it was helpful!

[@OregonShearwater]

Such great information! So glad Jess introduced us to you in her interview! ❤

[@floristsonfarms]

That was such a fun interview, Jess is amazing!

[@mienkedezoete2146]

Great video and love that you show your bouquets along with the flowers that you’re highlighting. Looking forward to seeing more from you 😁

[@floristsonfarms]

Awe thanks so much, I so much appreciate your feedback! I’m fairly obsessed for floral design; but I also think it’s important to share the designs so others can see the possibilities of what we can do with these flowers, to inspire, to teach, and in this video, to see the flowers in the context of their seasonal counterparts 😄

[@marcelocardosogama]

Your arrangements and bouquets are sooo fabulous! Not only beautiful, they have a distinctive mood, something that would certainly make me feel cozy being around them.

[@floristsonfarms]

Thank you so much for your kind words!

[@3kidmama]

Such a very helpful video, even for those of us in much colder zones. Thank you for putting all of this together - and GORGEOUS bouquet inspiration too!

[@floristsonfarms]

❤️ Thank you so much, I figured the chronology of blooming could be applied anywhere, whether it’s more concentrated or more spread out. So glad it was helpful to you! I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts, thank you so much!

[@LindasFlowersandVegetablesGard]

Great video, very informative, Thanks for sharing! Subscribed your channel and looking forward next video!

[@floristsonfarms]

Oh awesome, glad to hear it was useful and thanks so much for your support, Linda!

[@LisaMonique]

You are my new favorite channel. I want to grow everything you are growing and put together beautiful bouquets except I don’t want to do it as a business. But my daughter is a part-time florist and she can come cut from my garden if she needs to.

[@floristsonfarms]

Awe goodness, thank you so much for your kind words! I think that sounds like the perfect plan - we don’t always need to be growing to sell for our efforts to have value . I’ll be gardening and designing from my gardens long after I retire from serving my community with flowers. I’m thinking your daughter is going to LOVE the experience of getting to work with seasonal flowers from the garden just like I have!

[@heikedeubner9073]

Glad to have come across your channel on this useful topic. One flower I would add to the spring gap palette is sweet William. Useful even before the buds open, as a green filler.

[@floristsonfarms]

Oooh yes, thank you, such a good one! I didn’t mention it but it is there in many of the photos! 🙌🏻 Thanks for sharing! Love to know which are you favourite to grow?

[@heikedeubner9073]

@@floristsonfarms Tough question, I love them all. Sweet William is such a workhorse, not to mention fragrant! Sweet peas are another favorite. And I really would not want to be without the spikes (delphinium, foxglove, snapdragon, gladiolus) in the garden and in my bouquets.

[@floristsonfarms]

Likewise!

[@KJKang-fd7he]

love the variety of filler, and your garden is full of flowers

[@floristsonfarms]

Filler is so important! Thank you so much!

[@EvelynM-vlogs]

Since I live in Campbell River on Vancouver Island and am also a zone 8b with the same weather patterns - mostly - I have subscribed to compare notes! I love the fact that we can garden all winter, its the best time to work on soil health.

[@floristsonfarms]

Oh I so agree! It also means the hardy weeds keep in growing; but it’s worth it when we can get out in the gardens throughout the winter! What is your zone in Campbell River? My parents are in Bowser and I think they are a touch warmer than me, maybe a zone 9 🤔

[@EvelynM-vlogs]

@@floristsonfarms My zone is 8b as well, although I am pretty sure our winters and summers are both slightly milder than yours. I actually think the winter weed growth contributes to soil health so I am happy to have them in the winter, but planting season.....

[@karenhaddad322]

INcredibly helpful information. I'm just buying land now to start growing flowers in Colorado Springs, CO. It's a tough environment for growing flowers but I'm up for the challenge! Your content is excellent.

[@floristsonfarms]

Awe thank you so much! How exciting to be starting a farm! I wish you much success!

[@sarahlovesdonuts9601]

Your garden does look like a lot to me! My are sleeping under snow. I’m enjoying my break before the frantic push to get the beds ready and planted. Thank you for sharing all that you do.😁

[@floristsonfarms]

Aaah yes, I’m feeling the push right now, gotta get all my seeds on and get the beds prepped! Woohoo, pretty soon we’ll have beautiful fresh flowers again!

[@margielliott6389]

Very nice video. Love your use of perennials. Thank you so much for your very informative and music free content. Appreciate learning from you. 😍

[@floristsonfarms]

Thanks so much, Margie, for your kind feedback. I haven’t always done music free; but that is really important for me to know (and with a video like this I thought it would compete too much with my voice, haha). Thanks again! I will endeavour to keep making videos like this :)

[@cottagecreekfarm3800]

Thank you for this video! I will be a first time flower farmer this year and need all the tips I can get! Your video helped a ton!

[@floristsonfarms]

Oh what fun, I hope you have a great first year! All the best to you and I’m so glad my video was helpful to you! Whereabouts are you farming?

[@holubeckmila3334]

New subscriber here ❤!Love love your bouquets ❤️

[@floristsonfarms]

Awe thank you! Glad to have you here!

[@hansejr]

Your bouquets are stunning.

[@floristsonfarms]

Awe thanks so much 🥰

[@amysgardenstead2879]

Just found you. Your bouquets are gorgeous and just my style. Thank you for sharing!

[@floristsonfarms]

Awe thanks so much Amy! I appreciate that, so glad to have you here!

[@aubreymuller3870]

Love all your variety of flowers 😍😍 keep it up!!

[@floristsonfarms]

Thanks so much, Aubrey!

[@gray_f]

Your bouquets are so lovely!😍

[@floristsonfarms]

Thank you for your kind words!

[@crystalwebb5725]

New sub! Loved the break down of your flowers for bouquets. Thx

[@floristsonfarms]

Hi Crystal! Welcome, thank you for being here and thanks for your feedback!

[@InnaTrofimenko-m8m]

Hi! Thank you for such an informative and beautiful video! I was so excited to find out you’re also in zone 8b, just like I am! Would you be able to do a video on how you overwinter anemones? Also, do you grow ranunculus? If you do, do you plant them in spring or fall? Thank you 😊

[@floristsonfarms]

Thanks so much for watching and for your feedback. In the past I have planted in the fall; but I’m not very experienced with the ranunculus. I have a friend who is an expert at ranunculus and grows so many near me…hmm…maybe I can entice her to let me tour her field and we can all learn from her! For the anemones, I would love to do that, thanks so much for your requests!

[@rbrown2746]

I never thought of using Brunnera for cuts

[@floristsonfarms]

Let me know how it goes for you!

[@Atina974]

❤

[@floristsonfarms]

Thanks for watching!

[@estherbilinsky3680]

Absolutely beautiful! Would love a video on your allium lineup. Have you had any luck using cammassia as a cut? Thank you!

[@floristsonfarms]

Perfect, I’m actually putting an allium lineup together, I’ll be able to release it in a couple of months once I’ve seen my last variety! 🙌🏻 I haven’t worked with cammassia before, no :)

[@theflowerlady3040]

I’d be interested in hearing what varieties your beatiful honeysuckle are.

[@floristsonfarms]

I have several unidentified ones; but the one in the video is probably a Goldflame honeysuckle 😄

[@Speakupok]

I wish you were my neighbor lol

[@floristsonfarms]

Hahaha!

[@stephanieh8089]

Great video! Do Brunnera leaves make a good cut for foliage? They look like they'd frame a hand-tied bouquet really well.

[@floristsonfarms]

Thank you! I haven’t tried the foliage, now I’m curious as well 😄

[@kathrynplett8386]

@@floristsonfarms I think with quick dip they will do well, cut in advance to see for sure.

[@kathypope3010]

Thank you for another great video. Once again, the photography is top notch. This is the reference tool I needed for when I can start to add perennials. Could you please tell me what variety the gorgeous dark sweet peas are at 9:28? Thanks. Oh, and also do they have good fragrance? Thanks for all your time and hard work putting these vids together.

[@floristsonfarms]

Oh thank you so much for watching and for your feedback! That sweet pea is from the Elegance series - I got her in an Elegance Formula Mix from William Dam Seeds. It’s a cut flower series that was developed for shorter day length and cooler climates but with the ability to handle some summer temperatures. They have long stems and, yes, they smell amazing!

[@ChristinaSinnemann]

Thank you for making such awesome videos. They are so helpful! I am over on the island near parksville and looking to add Dutch Iris to my bouquets in the dreaded gap season. Do you treat yours as an annual or perennialize them? Can you store them in cooler without the bulb? TYIA

[@floristsonfarms]

I have family out that way! Dutch Iris can perennialize in the right conditions - in dry warm soil. I’ve have good results from digging them up, storing, and then replanting them in the fall. For me in my soils, they do return if I just leave them alone; but the numbers do slowly dwindle and I need to replenish them every several years. For cooler storage, yes, I dry store up to two weeks in the cooler.

[@ChristinaSinnemann]

Thank you for the info! I have ordered some for this fall, keen to give them a try for spring bouquets!

[@connielynn7236]

So glad I found you! This is such a helpful video. I’m going into my second year as a flower farmer and I really want to amp up my perennial game. Did I see lilacs in your bouquets? If so, what varieties do you grow? I’m in zone 8a and I didn’t think I could grow them here. Your bouquets are beautiful!

[@floristsonfarms]

Hi Connie! You’re right, you did spot lilacs, and I didn’t mention them just because they are a technical crop. Done right, they produce every two years for us, long grade A stems that I do not sell cheap. So I felt lilacs needed to be on their own video eventually! Also, they are basically only around for a few days so essentially they didn’t fit into this video because they aren’t available really during my gap season (they are already done). So anyways, my main white lilac which gives me about 75 stems every 2 years I actually don’t know the variety because it came with the farm! If you Google though for the best lilacs for cut flower production, there are some good resources out there. I love lilacs and I do highly recommend them for a diverse cut flower farm!

[@connielynn7236]

@@floristsonfarms thank for all this information! The house I grew up in had a hedge of lilacs in the backyard, so they are very nostalgic for me. I will do some research on which varieties will grow best for us here in the southeast US. I just thought they were only hardy to zone 7.

[@floristsonfarms]

I’m sure you can grow them there! Enjoy your research and shopping!

[@rbrown2746]

At 6.17 is that red flowering quince? I would love to seed a video on what woodys you recommend too

[@floristsonfarms]

I think what you are seeing there is the red ranunculus; but I do use quince! It’s a wonderful spring blossom to incorporate!

[@MichaelMotyer]

Love your videos! Is the geranium Rosanne? How do you condition that.

[@floristsonfarms]

Thank you! Which one? There are two perennial geraniums shown in the video

[@MichaelMotyer]

I was thinking the purple one

[@floristsonfarms]

Gotcha! I’ve had mine for so many years (and got it as a clump from a family member) so I don’t know for sure; but I don’t think it is Rosanne. I googled for it, and it looks more like geranium x magnificum “Rosemoor “, a dark blue violet colour. I don’t find it needs special conditioning if you’re using the flower stems. The individual leaf stems, on the other hand, might be a bit too soft early in the spring (I do use the leaves in the late summer and fall and they hold up well ). For the flowers, I try to get them in bud stage; but it’s worth noting that the flower doesn’t last long and what I find beautiful and long-lasting with them is the petal-less pods. The ripening seed pods turn a lovely reddish colour as well. Hope that helps!

[@wiwingmargahayu6831]

some people eat steamed torch ginger flower or kecombrang flower or kantan flower

[@floristsonfarms]

Wow that’s amazing! I had no idea!