Jeanne d'Arc Living English

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We’re visiting Jane’s enchanting and evocative flower universe. Here, you can come by almost all year round to pick your very own bouquet of flowers in her impressive cut flower garden. This highly sustainable trend is becoming more and more popular,

Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom

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When I first moved from London to Perch Hill, a small farm in East Sussex, I had a vague dream of giving up my job as a hospital doctor and staying at home to grow cut flowers. From the age of seven or eight, I’d loved picking flowers and then arrang

Home

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Bernard Mentoor cultivates the most beautiful show chrysanthemums on his property in Johannesdal, just beyond the Helshoogte Pass outside Stellenbosch. His hobby not only gives him a great sense of joy, it makes his wife Anne happy too. “Because he i

Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom

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Cutting a stem does cause a flower a certain amount of shock but there’s lots to do to give it a happy indoor life. One of the most helpful tricks is to gather your flowers early in the day, while it’s cooler and the bloom is full of energy. The cool

In The Moment

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Cutting a stem does cause a flower a certain amount of shock but there’s lots to do to give it a happy indoor life. One of the most helpful tricks is to gather your flowers early in the day, while it’s cooler and the bloom is full of energy. The cool

The English Garden

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Peony season is here, and never have we been happier to see their fragrant, blowsy blooms. These perennials flower for a relatively short period, from late May to June, offering their first signs of life in warm spring weather when the red leaf buds

The Gardener Magazine

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Spring is the season of cut flowers! Whether straight from the garden or store-bought, bringing flowers indoors is a guaranteed way to spread the spring magic. However, the magic may disappear if your flowers are withering away in a vase on the count

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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When you plant a deep magenta-coloured chrysanthemum, you’re also planting a wish for good health. The colours of chrysanthemums have special meanings, including red for love and devotion, yellow for happiness and joy, and white for loyalty and hones

HEIRLOOM GARDENER

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WHEN LYNN BYCZYNSKI first authored an article on flower farming for MOTHER EARTH NEWS back in 2002, she estimated that “an acre of well-grown and marketed flowers is worth approximately $25,000 to $30,000 in sales.” Fifteen years later, cut flowers c

In The Moment

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Cosmos is one of my absolute favourite plants. It gives you the highest square-inch productivity of any cut flower, so for every square foot that you plant, you’ll get more buckets of cut flowers from that square foot than you will with any other pla

Capper's Farmer

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To prolong freshness in cut flowers, each day trim them at a 45-degree angle, about 1/2 inch from the bottom of the stems, while holding them underwater to keep air from entering the stems. Some horticulturists suggest adding a commercial flower pres

Woman's Weekly

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Britain has enjoyed a cut-flower trade for hundreds of years, from nurserymen specialising in plants such as tulips, to West Country growers sending daffs and violets by express train to London’s Covent Garden Flower Market. Sadly, by the 1970s, tra

Farmer's Weekly

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The production and marketing of South Africa’s cut flowers are struggling to recover from the negative impact of the COVID-19-related national and international lockdowns. According to industry insiders, while there had been some recovery since lockd

Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom

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Cosmos is one of my absolute favourite plants. It gives you the highest square-inch productivity of any cut flower, so for every square foot that you plant, you’ll get more buckets of cut flowers from that square foot than you will with any other pla

Woman's Weekly Living Series

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Greet guests with a fresh flower Christmas wreath hung on your front door Time to make: 2hours  Spruce and pine Eucalyptus parvifolia Ivy or holly or ruscus Myrtle or pistache foliage Five large red roses Spray roses Red berries Florist

Country Life

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THE fashion pendulum swings as keenly in the plant world as it does in fashion and hardy garden chrysanthemums—a completely different beast to those gaudy garage-forecourt sprays—are having a revival of fortunes. This is partly driven by changes in t

The English Garden

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Ben recommends cut-flower beginners start with hardy annuals, such as Calendula officinalis ‘Indian Prince’, cornflower ‘Blue Ball’ and sweet peas. Phacelia is more usually regarded as a green manure, but Ben rates it as a cut flower: “If you grow it

Garden Gate

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If your garden is adjacent to a wild area where deer live and roam, then you know how damaging they can be to a garden when they stop by to browse. Since it’s likely that deer are going to sample everything in your garden once, it’s a good idea to sk

Country Life

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I’M effectively a gardener now,’ confesses Zara Gordon Lennox, chatelaine of Gordon Castle in the Highlands of Scotland. ‘I help with the mowing, the weeding… we’re all working incredibly hard because we’re so short-staffed due to the crisis.’ It’s n

Farmer's Weekly

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The fynbos cut flower industry is on the path to recovery following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the latest estimates for protea flowers up 15% on the previous year. This was according to Karien Bezuidenhout, manager at Cape Flora SA, wh

The Gardener Magazine

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For just a small investment (the corms are cheap and available in single and mixed colours), you can plant gladioli in batches to enjoy their tall flower stalks from early summer to the onset of next winter. Plant them in bold groups of about 25 corm

NPR

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The scientists introduced genes from two other flowers that allowed the mums to mimic the chemical process producing blue pigment. This might be applicable to other flowers, like roses and lilies.

Amateur Gardening

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THE latest Woolman’s catalogue carries over 20 colourful pages of chrysanthemum cultivars, and I very much hope this indicates gardeners are renewing interest in this so-useful autumn garden and cut flower. I grow a three or four-row bed across the v

Garden Gate

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Autumn gardens are a feast for the senses — bold color combinations, pungent scents, the crunch of crisp leaves under your feet and a cool nip in the air. To many gardeners, it’s the perfect time of year. You can relax a bit because the hard work of

The Saturday Evening Post

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It won’t be long until chrysanthemums arrive in full force. These quintessential autumn beauties hit their stride just as other flowers call it quits. But all mums aren’t created equal. Perfect for a seasonal blast of indoor color, floral mums have s

Woman's Weekly

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1 Remove all packaging and ties from the foliage and flowers. 2 Snip away the bottom of the stems by about 5cm and remove any outer petals from the roses that are looking lacklustre. 3 Fill a couple of buckets with some water and a little cut-flower

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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SPECIAL BULB OFFER SEE PAGE 170 FOR MORE DETAILS Gardening is all about the promise, a belief in all your tomorrows. That’s why now – as you prepare to shut down for the winter months ahead – you’ll be planning and plotting your spring garden. Those

Home

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If you’d like to grow chrysanthemums, buy one as an indoor plant and then transplant it into your garden later. These potted plants are usually available at nurseries and retail stores throughout the year in almost every colour possible. Some have si

The Gardener Magazine

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Argyranthemum ‘Grandaisy Red’ is a new intergeneric hybrid that is a cross between an annual chrysanthemum (painted daisy) and a perennial daisy bush. The result is a free-flowering, tough and bushy plant that grows up to 35 – 45cm tall with bright a

Amateur Gardening

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The large flowers of this annual aster, with their incurved petals growing on upright stems, could be mistaken for incurved chrysanthemums. This plant brings colour in late summer when others are past their best. Flowers: June-October. H: 70cm (27in)