Growing Flowers Nursery Landscaping Guide
Growing Flowers In Your Yard
By Jennifer Dullard
Growing flowers can increase the variety of colors in your yard.
Instead of a backyard with just green lawn, you may place one
or two flower beds with a variety of flowers to bring a range
of colours in the spring and summer. There are a small number
of flowers that bloom in the colder weather, like flowering cherry
trees, which you may include in your yard, to result in longer
periods of blooming flowers in your yard.
If you want to sell some of your flowers, as a side income or
as a full time business, then you will need more growing flowers
in your yard. You may begin with a cutting bed in your yard, but
as demand for your flowers grows, then you may need to look for
reliable suppliers or find a few rural acres to grow plenty of
flowers to meet the demand.
Spreading Cheer With Flowers
Bringing flowers as a gift for a loved one or hostess is a time
honored tradition of expressing esteem and spreading cheer. Who
wouldn’t enjoy a beautiful vase of flowers? It would have to be
a person with severe allergies or a dour individual indeed! Everyone
who passes a flower shop or stand finds the displays tempting,
searching their mind for a reason to take some home.
Even in hard economic times, a bouquet of flowers goes a long
way towards lifting your spirits. Have you ever wondered how that
person with the flower stand got into the business? Many are just
ordinary people who love growing flowers. What started as a hobby,
bloomed into a small business. Let’s take a look at how they did
it. Perhaps you’ll find growing flowers might well become a business
for you too.
A Cutting Bed In Your Yard
Some home gardeners set aside a small plot in their garden for
what’s known as a cutting bed. Aside from their regular landscaping,
with artful drifts of wildflowers, annuals and ornamentals planted
around the lawn, the cutting bed is more utilitarian.
The long, straight rows of flowers are designed for production
rather than a public garden display. Growing flowers in the cutting
bed provides fresh blooms destined for vases all around the home.
Giving Flowers To Your Friends And Neighbors
Many a gardener has been astonished to find that their cutting
bed produces far more than they can use in their own home. These
happy gardeners start spreading the wealth around to their neighbors
and friends. Sooner or later, it occurs to the gardener that growing
flowers for a small business venture might produce a little extra
income, just by continuing to do something they already love.
When fall comes, the aspiring flower grower expands the cutting
bed to twice its original size, planting bulbs for spring, interspersed
with summer bloomers, just as you might in your landscape, thus
maximizing the cutting bed space.
Include The Popular Growing Flowers In Your Cutting Bed
When growing flowers as a business, you’ll want to choose flowers
with appeal to the general marketplace, such as lilies, tulips
and daffodils for spring and gladiolas, dahlias and daisies for
summer cutting. You can also clip sprigs of gypsophilia and fern
fronds from your regular garden as ’trims’ for bouquets.
So how do you find your market? There’s a huge number of options,
right in your own community. Restaurants are great prospects,
as are wedding and party occasions. Florists may also prefer to
buy from a local, quality source. Putting up flyers around town
and telling your friends and neighbors may be all it takes for
advertising, along with a little footwork to individual businesses,
such as restaurants.
Growing flowers can be a viable small business that provides
you with some extra cash. Your business may well grow, over time,
to a flourishing endeavor. Many others have done so. Why not you?
Selling Your Flowers At Local Markets
Other ideas may include selling flowers at local markets. You
can arrange for a stand in your local market, after gaining permission
to set up a stall. Before you set up a stand, find out what permits
are required to sell at each local market, so that you are not
faced with any financial penalties.
You may even arrange attending different markets, as some local
markets are only open on specific days and closed on other days.
So all you need to do is arrange a stand for your flowers and
you will be selling flowers at the local market.
By selling your flowers at the market you can confirm which flowers
are the more popular and continue to grow those in your cutting
bed. As demand for your flowers grows, you may need more space
to grow your flowers and you may find a lot of your yard is taken
up with your cutting bed. This is the time when you need to make
an investment and find out if someone else can grow your flowers.
Someone who has bigger facilities to grow commercial quantities
of flowers to meet the demand.
You may find, it is easier for someone else to grow the flowers,
and you can concentrate on the selling and continuing to grow
your business. The hard part is to find a reliable source. You
can ask around, talk to other traders and search on the internet
to find local reliable flower suppliers.
You may continue growing flowers in your yard, but to meet the
demand you may need to look at commercial suppliers.
About the Author:
Jennifer Dullard has written a number of articles on gardening
and landscaping including Wrought
Iron Outdoor Furniture, Metal
Window Boxes, Water
Proof Cases, Wrought
Iron Garden Gates, Growing
Tomatoes, Ornamental
Grasses, Container
Gardens, Window
Box Garden, Gardening
Container, Hanging
Baskets, Container
Gardening.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
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