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From Reviewer Mary Ann Newcomer: Home in Bloom by Ariella Chezar
Ariella Chezar is the author of The Flower Workshop and Flowers for the Table and a master floral designer who has appeared in numerous magazines, including Opray Daily, Martha Stewart Living, and...
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Keeping it Local: Why Consumers Buy Flowers Close to Home
National Gardening Survey 2024 Since 2021, Slow Flowers Society has sponsored cut flowers questions included in the National Gardening Survey, a study of more than 2,500 households in the U.S. We...
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Ode to a Garden Bench
My one-of-a-kind bench returns home after more than a decade away This bench was designed by Jean Zaputil 20-plus years ago as part of a fundraiser for the Washington Park Arboretum. In the early...
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From Reviewer Mary Ann Newcomer ~ The Cut Flower Handbook: Select, Plant,...
For all of you in the Slow Flowers movement – or any of you thinking about digging in – this is a must-have book for your library. All the nuts and bolts of the cut flower business are covered here....
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From Reviewer Mary Ann Newcomer – A Year in Bloom: Flowering Bulbs for Every...
A Year in Bloom: Flowering Bulbs for Every SeasonLucy Bellamy Every year, I confidently state, “I will not be buying hundreds of bulbs next year! No way! Come mid-September, the boxes (and boxes) are...
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Slow Flowers Journal – Fall 2024
Celebrating the Season: Harvest + Holidays Cover image (c) Matt McDaniel,On the Cover: Seen through the doorway of a vintage glass greenhouse, a sweetheart table is festooned with autumn flowers and...
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From Reviewer Mary Ann Newcomer – The Land Gardeners: CUT FLOWERS
The first two words that come to mind for this book are LUSCIOUS and RICH. If I may borrow a line from the introduction, “the reality of the country and its seasons…” Everyone, every gardener, should...
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Gold Media Award for Slow Flowers Journal
Gold Laurel Award for Slow Flowers Journal Slow Flowers Journal and BLOOM Imprint have received the GOLD LAUREL MEDIA AWARD from GardenComm (Garden Communicators International) in the Consumer...
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The Allure of Amaryllis
Slow Flowers Revisited for Week 52 In 2023, I devoted a full year to revisiting my 52-week project that became a book called Slow Flowers, published in 2013. Each week, I reinterpreted the...
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HARVESTING AND POST-HARVEST CARE FOR CUT FLOWERS
Adapted from Slow Flowers: Four Seasons of Locally-Grown Bouquets from the Garden, by Debra Prinzing (St. Lynn’s Press) Harvest and Post Harvest Care advice from Slow Flowers book Gathering fresh...
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