Close-up on the variegated banana, because this plant does not look real. Every new leaf unrolls with its own pattern of green and white marbling, and no two come out the same. She lives in the backyard garden with the flower farm and might be the most dramatic thing I grow. Zone questions welcome,

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what one morning's flower harvest would have cost me at the store. 🌸 Part 2 of the cut flower garden vs store bought flowers breakdown. I took every stem I picked from my backyard flower farm to my local farm market and priced them one by one. Zinnias $2.00/stem · marigolds $1.80 · cosmos ~$1

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Pulled out an entire statice plant by accident this morning. Big oopsie. The silver lining: found this caterpillar hiding in it, so he's getting relocated to a new plant, and I'm cutting all the good statice stems off before this one goes to compost. Nothing wasted in the backyard flower farm, not

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How much does a cut flower garden actually save you? 🌸 Cost of flowers from a backyard cut flower garden vs buying flowers at the store — Michigan flower farm, zone 5b. This is one morning harvest from my backyard flower farm — two buckets and a mini bucket, with my assistant Moonbeam supervisin

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Replying to @lovedbyheather full tour of my August cut flower garden in my backyard in zone 5b Lansing, MI i’m definitely a chaos gardener, but it makes it really fun cause you’re always surprising yourself. What you can find in your own garden. #cutflowergarden #zinnias #backyardgarden

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After my first year growing Amaranthe, I can’t help but show it off. my massive red amaranthus plant, explaining how it's my favorite and takes flower bouquets to the next level. #creatorsearchinsights #growingamaranth #amaranthus #gardening #cutflower

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Someone left a gift on my free flower stand today — burlap bows, a stack of jars, and the nicest handwritten card. This is what the pay it forward flower stand has turned into. I’ve met so many people from this community because of it. The flowers are great, but the people are better. Stay tuned be

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#onthisday

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Lisianthus - I can stop won’t stop loving these on my flower farm #lisianthus #flowerfarm #coolplants #cutflowers #coolshit

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@Starbucks gives away free coffee grounds for your garden. The program is called Grounds for Your Garden, and they'll hand you a huge bag of used grounds to work into your soil for nutrients or toss in your compost. This morning's haul: a coffee, a pup cup, and free fuel for the flower farm. Just a

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🌸 Okay hear me out… a garden party at the flower farm? Picture it: tables set up right along the side, we walk the rows and cut our own flowers, I tell you everything I know while we arrange them, and there's tea. Because I love a tea party. 🫖 And Moon will absolutely be there. She's non-nego

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Part 2: getting lisianthus ready for the fridge. Clean buckets first — any bacteria left in there will clog the stems and the flowers can’t drink. I scrub, then add a CVBn tab to keep the water clean while they sit. Don’t pack them tight. Crowded stems bruise and trap moisture, which is how you get

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I'm showing off an armful of celosia I just picked, sharing that I mostly grow plume celosia and love it as a filler. I mention I'm not sure of the exact varieties but I don't grow the brain-looking ones. #creatorsearchinsights #celosia #plumecelosia #flowerfarming #cutflowers

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Part 1: processing lisianthus for cold storage, because these lisianthus did not slow down when I cut them. I need to buy myself a week. This part is just how I pick and organize — what stage to cut at, and how I sort as I go so nothing gets lost in the bucket. Part 2 is the actual prep for the fr

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What’s blooming in my zone 6a garden in August, and everything is having a moment at once. Lansing, Michigan. The zinnias are having a moment. The lisianthus is having a moment. Sunflowers, celosia, dahlias, cosmos, and the asters, which are stealing the whole video. Tell me what’s having a m

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Making propagation bouquets — houseplant cuttings arranged like a flower bouquet. If you’re new here, I’ve had a lot of houseplants for a long time, and every summer they move outside into the shade because Michigan humidity is exactly what they want. Once I started making flower bouquets I couldn’

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Serendipity. That was the subject line of the email. A listener heard me talk about stroke warning signs on a GLP-1 podcast @ThePlusSideZPodcast and thought it was a strange tangent. She paused the episode right after that section on her way to work. That afternoon she called her mom like she do

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100 bouquets at the flower stand on Kipling Blvd. Take one, or give one. The stand’s been closed while I finished a big project and now everything needs a home. Please share with your local Lansing friends ! I’m also going on the road. Dropping bouquets at local hospitals this afternoon, but tel

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Growing lisianthus from seed is the reason I’m insufferable in July. These are Voyager 2 Lavender, started from seed back in winter, and I’m cutting them nearly every day now and holding stems in the fridge for a big lisianthus project. #lisianthus #lisianthusfromseed #cutflowergarden #flowe

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Fasciated snapdragon in the cut flower garden and I’m losing it. The stem came up flat and ribboned instead of round — like three stems fused into one wide band — and the top is crested over like a celosia instead of a normal snapdragon spike. This is called fasciation, a mutation in the growing ti

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Maria Rising-Pets & ‘25 Bride