The Farmer Bailey Blog
Preventing Fusarium in Cut Flower Crops
Like it or not, Lisianthus growers will get to know Fusarium. Horticulturalist Bobby Bowen breaks down how to deal with the fungus among us.
What is Plant Tissue Culture?
Tissue culture propagated plugs yield bigger, taller, fuller flowered, and FAR more productive plants than seed-grown strains.
WATCH: How to Fall Plant for Spring Blooms
Jump-start your spring season with fall planting.
Godetia Growing Guide
Our Godetia Growing Guide is packed with cultural tips and best practices on growing, caring for, and harvesting the stunning satin flower.
*New* Daucus Growing Guide
Our new Daucus Growing Guide is a complete reference on how to grow, harvest and handle this lovely, fuss-free filler.
Fall Planting for Spring Blooms: Orlaya
Fall plant delicate Orlaya for the longest stems and earliest blooms.
Heirloom Chrysanthemum Growing Guide
3 Porch Farm shares the keys to success with your new Heirloom Mums.
Floret on The Flower Podcast
Farmer Bailey is proud to sponsor The Flower Podcast, a deep resource of education and inspiration for flower farmers.
How to Prepare Plants for Extreme Cold Snaps
Cold weather on the way? Colder than you had hoped or planned for? Colder than you've seen in 30 years? Here are some tips to help your plants survive.
Bloom Groups, Demystified
Bloom initiation in Lisianthus is a complicated relationship between day length, light intensity and temperature.
Cultivating Winter with Helleborus Gold Collection
When it comes to using Hellebores as a cut flower, locally grown is always best.
PANTONE Peach Fuzz 13-1023 in Flower Form
Is PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz the color of the year?
Sweet Peas & Friendship
An All-Star team of farmers gathered in Madeira for fellowship and a bit of work.
WATCH: Growing Winterberry Holly, Snowberry, and Hydrangea
Farmer Bailey hosts Karl “Stick Man” Vahrmeyer Jr, expert grower of branches at Green Park Nurseries.
WATCH: All About Bare Roots
For the first time, Farmer Bailey is providing a variety of bare root perennials and woody plants straight from Holland.
WATCH: Bailey talks young plants with JP WIlliams
Whip up a cup of something nice, and join Farmer Bailey and young plant expert JP Williams for a Live chat.
WATCH: Preparing for Winter
Take a few steps to prepare your fall-planted plugs for their cold winter nap, and a bright spring bloom.
Chocolate Cosmos 'New Choco'
Lynn Resch of Fleurs du Bien shares her experience growing irresistible New Choco.