Starting a flower garden or flower farm can be incredibly rewarding, but choosing the right flowers is key—especially for beginners. You want blooms that are easy to grow, require minimal maintenance, and produce plenty of flowers throughout the season. If you’re ready to enjoy a garden full of color and fragrance without the stress, this guide will introduce you to the best low-maintenance, high-yield flowers that are perfect for beginners.

Dreaming of a thriving cut flower garden that not only fills your home with beautiful bouquets but also turns into a profitable business? Whether you’re a backyard gardener or an aspiring flower farmer, learning how to maximize your blooms is the key to success. Growing cut flowers for profit is about more than just planting pretty blooms—it’s about choosing the right flowers, optimizing growing conditions, and knowing how to harvest and sell them effectively…

Do you dream of growing beautiful flowers while running a profitable business? Starting a flower farm can be a rewarding way to connect with nature, be your own boss, and turn a passion for flowers into a thriving business. On the flip side, it is also one of the hardest, most labor intensive jobs you can have. I don't want to only paint it with rose colored glasses, I want to be transparent about the reality of running a flower farm.

Dahlias are a favorite among gardeners for their stunning blooms and long growing season. To keep your dahlias thriving year after year, it's important to properly dig, divide, store, and wake up your tubers during the late fall and into winter months. In this guide, I will walk you through everything you need to know, from lifting your tubers in the fall to planting them out around Mother’s Day weekend.

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As winter settles in, many people tuck away their gardening gloves and wait for spring. But for flower farmers like me, winter isn’t a time to step back—it’s an opportunity to lay the groundwork for next season’s blooms. Here at Ross Flower Farm in the beautiful Skagit Valley of Washington, I’ve come to embrace winter as a season of preparation, care, and quiet anticipation.

As a growing flower farmer, every season is a new opportunity to learn, refine, and improve. With each passing year, I discover more about what works best for my farm, and 2025 is no exception. This year, I’m taking a more intentional approach to seed planning by expanding my seed inventory tracking and fine-tuning my sowing schedule. My goal is to make well-informed decisions about when and how to start seeds, setting my flowers up for success from the very beginning.