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How do you grow your own cut flowers?

8 August 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Buying cut flowers on a regular basis can be quite costly, so why not try growing your own in the garden? They can be grown in their own cutting bed or mixed into a border to add to the display; either way you could raise enough flowers to have a constant supply of fresh blooms for your home. To get … [Read more...]

Looking After Cut Flowers

27 January 2009 By Leave a Comment

You may have heard the old wives tale about adding sugar to a vase of cut flowers, so here is how sugar affects cut flowers; basically the sugar is a nutrient and can replace those nutrients lost to the flowers when their leaves have been removed so the old wives tale was correct, add sugar to your … [Read more...]