The Farmer Bailey Blog

3 Porch Farm shares the keys to success with your new Heirloom Mums.

Farmer Bailey is proud to sponsor The Flower Podcast, a deep resource of education and inspiration for flower farmers.

Think like a plant to grow your best Lisianthus ever!

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 initiation in Lisianthus is a complicated relationship between day length, light intensity and temperature.

When it comes to using Hellebores as a cut flower, locally grown is always best.

Is PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz the color of the year? 

An All-Star team of farmers gathered in Madeira for fellowship and a bit of work.

Farmer Bailey hosts Karl “Stick Man” Vahrmeyer Jr, expert grower of branches at Green Park Nurseries.

For the first time, Farmer Bailey is providing a variety of bare root perennials and woody plants straight from Holland.

What's your zone?

Whip up a cup of something nice, and join Farmer Bailey and young plant expert JP Williams for a Live chat. 

Take a few steps to prepare your fall-planted plugs for their cold winter nap, and a bright spring bloom.

Nigella is easy to grow, but so hard to get started!

Lynn Resch of Fleurs du Bien shares her experience growing irresistible New Choco.

Bailey welcomes Steve and Mandy of 3 Porch Farm to Instagram Live on Wednesday, October 4.

Extend your season and liven up autumn bouquets with Heirloom Mums.

Are plugs an expensive shortcut or an important input for a successful flower farm?

Act fast to add brand new Campanula 'Evergreen', 'Mont Blanc' and 'Kilimanjaro' to your farm.

Bailey thinks like a plant to troubleshoot common problems in cut flower crops like Asters, Cosmos, Snapdragons, Stock and annual Phlox.

When Christy Muck of Wild Blossom Hollow posted her glorious Didiscus harvest on Instagram, we had to reach out to learn more about how she did it.

Join Bailey on Instagram Live for an in-depth chat about Fall Planted Perennials, Wednesday August 23 at 9am PT/Noon ET/5pm GMT.

Val and Bailey dive into the many reasons why all flower farmers should join the ASCFG, whose mission is education and connection.

We're pursuing pleasure while planting posies.