The Farmer Bailey Blog

Double Campanula Evergreen, Kilimanjaro & Mont Blanc

Cutting-edge double flowered Campanula are back for fall planting.

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Thrips in Your Flowers

Learn to identify and prevent thrips damage to your flowers.

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Peonies in Year 1-3

Why do peonies take three years to reach their cut flower potential?

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How to File A Claim

Plugs arrived in disarray? We're here to help.

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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.

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Limonium & Statice for Spring 2025

If you’ve had your eye on Limonium from tissue culture, don’t delay: quantities will be extremely limited after August 1.

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What is Plant Tissue Culture?

Tissue culture propagated plugs yield bigger, taller, fuller flowered, and FAR more productive plants than seed-grown strains. 

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WATCH: How to Fall Plant for Spring Blooms

Jump-start your spring season with fall planting.

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Introducing Pansy Flamenco

Flamenco, true to its fiery name, can handle autumn's chill and even dips into freezing temperatures while young.

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Peony & Eremurus Updates

Wholesale Peonies by the crate and Eremurus launch on June 20.

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Charming Campanula with Linda Doan

Fall-planted Campanula is a May queen.

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Bonus Farmers Market Q&A with Bailey and Thomas

Farmer Bailey managing partners and veteran farmers market vendors Thomas & Bailey answer viewer questions in this honest Q&A.

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WATCH: Farmers Market Success Webinar

Farmers Markets can be a powerful sales channel for flower farmers, but are they right for you and your business?

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*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. 

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Fall Planting for Spring Blooms: Orlaya

Fall plant delicate Orlaya for the longest stems and earliest blooms.

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Flourish at the Farmers Market

Are farmers markets right for you?

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Find Local, Seasonal Flowers Near You

Explore this handy flower-finder for Mother's Day and Dia de las Madres bouquets.

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Heirloom Chrysanthemum Growing Guide

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

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Heirloom Chrysanthemum Restock

Don’t miss your chance to extend your season and add quintessential autumn beauty to your bouquets.

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How to Shop Ready to Ship

An important update to Ready to Ship flash sales.

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A La Carte Weddings: From Seed to Ceremony

Scott and Jennifer Joray share their top tips for implementing A La Carte Weddings for farmer-florists.

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WATCH: Simplify and Streamline Your Wedding Season

Veteran farmer-florists share their decades of hard-earned insight into growing, marketing, and delivering wedding flowers in this video webinar.

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Power Your Flowers: Building Thriving Customer Relationships

Grow a customer-focused flower farm business with Lennie's top five tips.

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Power Your Flowers: Record Keeping Systems

"My farming life got easier, more profitable, and way more fun once I learned to measure what I was doing so that I could improve what I was doing."

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