The Cut Flower Handbook: Select, Plant, Grow, and Harvest Gorgeous Blooms [Hardcover]

The bouquet-growing bible gardeners have been waiting for! Learn the ins and outs of growing gorgeous blooms at home with professional flower farmer Lisa Mason Ziegler of @gardenersworkshopfarm.

*2025 GardenComm Silver Laurel Media Award Winner*

Whether you’recultivating fresh-cut bouquetsfor yourself, family, and friends or for others on a small commercial scale, you’ll go from sowing seeds to cutting armloads of colorful, long-lasting blooms with ease. Lisa’s unique approach and easy-to-follow advice onmulti-season planting and harvestinguses the natural warm and cool weather cycles present in almost all growing regions to maximize cut flower production.

This logical and nature-driven method is also a signature hallmark of her super-successful online flower-farming courses, and it’s one thattranslates equally well to both small urban backyards and large rural flower farms.

Growing your own cut flowers means you canavoid bouquets laden with pesticides(who wantsthaton their wedding day?) and you can skip the trips to your local flower shop or grocery store to pay big bucks for a bouquet that has racked up more airline miles than you could ever hope to. 

Included in this essential cut flower growing handbook are:
 

• 50 extensive flower profilesdivided into their preferred season of growth. Cool-weather favorites include poppies, snapdragons, and bells of Ireland. Warm-season beauties include zinnias, sunflowers, and celosia. 
• Planting tips for a succession of bloomsthat carry over from one growing season to the next without any additional work from you.
• Illustrationsshowing how to pinch plants for more blooms, how to make your cuts, how to erect support netting to keep your flowers straight and upright, how to dig a planting bed, and more.
• Over 200 photographs of the best cut flowerl3ž