Southern Oregon serves as home to over ten flower farms of varying size. Local agriculture may be synonymous with pears, wine, and cannabis, but floriculture is an important part of the agricultural landscape as well.
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As a flower farmer, it has taken me years of trial and error, observation, and perseverance to understand what flowers can be grown in the Rogue and Applegate Valleys of Southern Oregon, and when they can be grown. “Seasonal flowers” is a term that refers to the window of time when a flower naturally blooms in a given locale.
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For years I struggled on a steep learning curve with successfully growing dahlias. Gophers, cucumber beetles, earwigs, slugs, very few weeks of blooms before frost, few stems per plant…the list of challenges was long. But now I can say, I think that I’ve figured it out, and YOU CAN TOO.
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Choosing the right time to sow seeds during the planting season can mean the difference between success and failure in growing flowers from seed.
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