The Farmer Bailey Blog

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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Meet Bobby, your Farmer Bailey Horticulturalist

Horticulturist Bobby Bowen joined the Farmer Bailey team to support you in your flower growing journey.

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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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Farmer Feature: Shanti Rade of Whipstone Farm

"Farming is never boring and I don’t think I will ever want to give it up. Finding inspiration in new areas of farming is really what keeps me going."

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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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Congrats to Flying Penguin Farm!

Riah won a copy of Flower Farming for Profit, Lennie Larkin's new guide to growing a successful cut flower business. 

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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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Helleborus Ice n' Roses Combo Sale

This old-fashioned garden perennial is long-lived, deer resistant, shade-loving and magically appears when absolutely nothing else is blooming.

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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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Power Your Flowers: Crop Planning

Flower Farming for Profit author Lennie Larkin shares her top tips for a great season ahead.

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Floret on The Flower Podcast

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

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Congrats to our Gift Away Winner!

Chand Ahuja of Great Ring Farm won a copy of Flower Farming for Profit, an essential new book for growers.

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WATCH: Lisianthus Forever

Think like a plant to grow your best Lisianthus ever!

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Happy Groundhog Day?

Voles, gophers and mice, oh my!

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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.

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Bloom Groups, Demystified

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

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Cultivating Winter with Helleborus Gold Collection

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

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Farmer-Florist Profile: Colin Stark of Stark Blooms

Colin tells us why he ditched bespoke suits for muck boots, what he treasures most about his farmer lifestyle, and his favorite Farmer Bailey crops.

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Martin Luther King and the Flowers of Hope

In a striking portrait by photographer Steve Schapiro, King and American political scientist and diplomat Ralph Bunche stand among fellow civil rights leaders wearing vivid flower leis.

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PANTONE Peach Fuzz 13-1023 in Flower Form

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

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Sweet Peas & Friendship

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

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