Note: There are affiliate links to books and products mentioned in this post. While there are many valuable books I’d recommend purchasing for anyone wanting to get into flower farming, there are only three that I really consider “must owns” — for the growing side, that’s Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein and Cool Flowers by Lisa Mason Ziegler (or the updated version of the same book by the same author called The Cut Flower Handbook), and for the business side, that’s Flower Farming For Profit by Lennie Larkin, hands down. Flower Farming For Profit is the book I wished…
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With the exploding trend of the backyard flower farming movement, there have been a LOT of books released in the past few years on flower farming, cut flower growing, and floral design based on seasonal flowers. Because books are basically my love language, I’ve bought nearly all of them (#truth), but I only consider about a handful to be “must-owns.” The rest are awesome to have, yes, and I can never get enough information, pictures, and poetic musings on the profession I love so much, but when it comes to the nitty gritty of actually flower farming, you will get…