What Way Is Best For Keeping Cut Flowers Fresh?

Q: I love fresh cut flowers, but am really bad at keeping cut flowers fresh. Can
someone please tell me how to keep cut flowers fresh?

Eagle Creek Earns Veriflora Certification

Eagle Creek Growers continues its quiet and methodical approach to
sustainable business practices by earning VeriFlora certification. The
VeriFlora program provides stringent sustainability performance standards for
growers addressing environmental accountability, the health and well-being of
workers, their families and communities, and product quality.

How-To: Dried Petal Wreathes

March 31, 2010 Claire Lee, Craft

You don’t have to throw cut flowers away after they have passed prime. In the spirit of upcrafting, San Francisco crafter Claire Lee shows you how to get the most out of your flowers by making gorgeous petal ornaments or miniature wreathes.

Add Some Garden Zing With The New ‘Zest’

March 30, 2010 Floragem

The past few years gardeners all over the
country have been adding a colorful zing to their gardens with petunia Lemon
Zest. Now there is a new flavor to try – Orange! Petunia Orange Zest has the
same great garden performance as the best selling original Lemon Zest but with
juicy orange blooms.

Florverde Launches Its

March 30, 2010 Asocolflores

The Florverde certification program, with over 170 participating flower farms,
launched its Sustainable Flowers campaign in conjunction with the United
Nation’s declaration marking 2010 as the International Year of Biological
Diversity and the celebration of the diversity of life on the planet and
joining in the fight against the loss of biodiversity around the world.