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The Cut Flower Handbook

Select, Plant, Grow, and Harvest Gorgeous Blooms

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The Cut Flower Handbook

By: Lisa Mason Ziegler, Jessica Graven
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The bouquet-growing bible gardeners have been waiting for! Learn the ins and outs of growing gorgeous blooms at home with professional flower farmer Lisa Mason Ziegler of @gardenersworkshopfarm.

*2025 GardenComm Silver Laurel Media Award Winner*

Whether you’re cultivating fresh-cut bouquets for yourself, family, and friends or for others on a small commercial scale, you’ll go from sowing seeds to cutting armloads of colorful, long-lasting blooms with ease. Lisa’s unique approach and easy-to-follow advice on multi-season planting and harvesting uses the natural warm and cool weather cycles present in almost all growing regions to maximize cut flower production.

This logical and nature-driven method is also a signature hallmark of her super-successful online flower-farming courses, and it’s one that translates equally well to both small urban backyards and large rural flower farms.

Growing your own cut flowers means you can avoid bouquets laden with pesticides (who wants that on their wedding day?) and you can skip the trips to your local flower shop or grocery store to pay big bucks for a bouquet that has racked up more airline miles than you could ever hope to.

Included in this essential cut flower growing handbook are:
  • 50 extensive flower profiles divided into their preferred season of growth. Cool-weather favorites include poppies, snapdragons, and bells of Ireland. Warm-season beauties include zinnias, sunflowers, and celosia.
  • Planting tips for a succession of blooms that carry over from one growing season to the next without any additional work from you.
  • Illustrations showing how to pinch plants for more blooms, how to make your cuts, how to erect support netting to keep your flowers straight and upright, how to dig a planting bed, and more.
  • Over 200 photographs of the best cut flowers for home gardeners to grow, the most effective methods for their care, and the most productive ways to organize them in the garden.
  • Advice on caring for a cutting garden, locating the best planting site, starting plants from seed, making the harvest, prolonging the life of your cut flowers, and so much more!

The Cut Flower Handbook is the perfect balance of inspiration and education for anyone interested in bringing more beauty into their lives by growing cut flowers at home. Crafts & Hobbies Gardening & Horticulture
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Critic reviews


“Lisa Ziegler’s love of flower farming shines from every page of this lovely book, and any gardener is sure to be caught up in her enthusiasm. More importantly, she provides the details that will make a flower business successful. I highly recommend this book!” —Lynn Byczynski, Author of The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower’s Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers; Founder, Growing for Market magazine; Owner, Seeds from Italy
—Lynn Byczynski, Author of The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower’s Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Fl

“Lisa Ziegler’s love of flower farming shines from every page of this lovely book, and any gardener is sure to be caught up in her enthusiasm. More importantly, she provides the details that will make a flower business successful. I highly recommend this book!” —Lynn Byczynski, Author of The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower’s Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers; Founder, Growing for Market magazine; Owner, Seeds from Italy
—Lynn Byczynski, Author of The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower’s Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Fl
“The Cut Flower Handbook is everything you need to know to take the guesswork out of planning, planting, and growing beautiful cut flowers (and finally getting the timing right!). Concisely covered and beautifully arranged, Lisa Ziegler has created the most useful and practical resource for every budding flower grower!” Joe Lamp’l, Host of public television’s Growing a Greener World, Founder of joegardener.com and The joegardener Show podcast, and the Online Gardening Academy—Joe Lamp’l, Host of public television’s Growing a Greener World, Founder of joegardener.com and The
“The Cut Flower Handbook is everything you need to know to take the guesswork out of planning, planting, and growing beautiful cut flowers (and finally getting the timing right!). Concisely covered and beautifully arranged, Lisa Ziegler has created the most useful and practical resource for every budding flower grower!” Joe Lamp’l, Host of public television’s Growing a Greener World, Founder of joegardener.com and The joegardener Show podcast, and the Online Gardening Academy—Joe Lamp’l, Host of public television’s Growing a Greener World, Founder of joegardener.com and The
“Want to start growing cut flowers? Start here! Lisa covers it all.” —Antonio Valente, Specialty Cut Flower Grower at antoniovalenteflowers.com
—Antonio Valente, Specialty Cut Flower Grower at antoniovalenteflowers.com
“Want to start growing cut flowers? Start here! Lisa covers it all.” —Antonio Valente, Specialty Cut Flower Grower at antoniovalenteflowers.com
—Antonio Valente, Specialty Cut Flower Grower at antoniovalenteflowers.com
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