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How to Make a Tempting Christmas Cookie Tray (Plus Recipes!)

It just wouldn’t be Christmas without the classic baking tray, piled high with all your family favourites. But have you ever wondered, what makes a good baking tray? Besides secret-grandma-baking magic?

Your holiday baking tray is more than just a collection of dainties that you like. It’s a curated collection of sweet treats that appeals to as many people at the party as possible. The key is in the mix and presentation. We want this goodie tray to be irresistible to all who pass!!

Okay, I may have put a bit too much gravitas on the Christmas baking tray, and possibly have over-thought this, but I know that if you’re reading this, you secretly want to have a holiday cookie tray that has no leftovers.

How Many Cookies Do You Need in a Cookie tray?

You don’t need to go crazy with the cookies. For a small tray, I like to have 3-5 varieties. For a larger tray, 5-10 varieties is nice. Put at least 6 of each kind of cookie on the tray, and more for a larger tray.

Group each variety together, and try to put cookies of different colours side-by-side. For example, the gingerbread cookies will look good beside the shortbread, but not as great beside the brownies.

If you don’t have any goodies that are brighter coloured with sprinkles or icing, consider adding a few colourful candies to the tray to make it pretty.

What Mix of Cookies Makes the Best Baking Tray?

While there’s no perfect answer, here’s the mix I like to have on my tray:

  • One decorated cookie: gingerbread, sugar cookies, or anything with sprinkles and icing.
  • One chocolate-based item: browies, chocolate cookies, fudge.
  • One item that contains jam or fruit: jam-jam cookies, mini cheesecakes, or squares and tarts with apples, cranberries, or raisins.
  • One square: Nanaimo bars, Oh Henry Bars, or whatever your favourite square is.
  • Shortbread or treat with a shortbread crust
  • One Kid-Friendly item. This may be the same as the decorated cookie, but it could also be something like candy cane cookies, a cupcake with icing, or anything with candies, icing, or sprinkles.
  • Something with nuts. This is best to avoid if you know you’ll be serving someone with allergies or are baking for a bake sale or situation where you don’t know who will be eating yourself. However, if it’s for your extended family with no nut allergies, it’s always nice to have something with almonds, walnuts, or peanut butter on the tray.

You can have one of each of these varieties, however, some of them will have to overlap or be skipped if you have a smaller tray with less varieties.

Now on to the recipes! Here’s some of my favourite recipes that I love to make for Christmas and often end up on my baking tray.

The Best Christmas Baking Tray Recipes

Take your holiday baking tray from ho-hum to simply irresistable. Here's a delicious mix of dainties you'll want to include this holiday.

Cranberry Butter Tarts

A Christmas variation on classic butter tarts.

Classic Melt-In-Your-Mouth Shortbread

The best and easiest shortbread recipe you will find. A secret ingredient makes the shortbread extra smooth.

White Chocolate Dipped Snowflake Shortbread

Take those classic shortbread cookies up a notch with this beautifully decorated version.

Cheesecake Brownie Bites

An unexpected and decadent addition to the baking tray.

No Bake Peppermint Mocha Cheesecake Bites

Coffee, chocoloate and mint combine for a different and festive treat.

Chocolate Covered Rice Krispie Christmas Tree Treats

Easy and kid-pleasing, the extra effort is worth the smiles you'll see when you serve these delicious Rice Krispie Christmas Trees.

Hutzelbrot: a German Fruit Bread Recipe for People who Hate Fruit Cake

Like fruit cake? Me neither. But this fruit bread is pretty delicious and a nice addition for those craving something less sweet.

Gooey Cinnamon Buns

No dry cinnamon buns here! Here's the gooey cinnamon buns you're craving.

St. Lucia-Inspired Cinnamon Buns

When your attempt at St. Lucia buns goes all wrong, you make these St. Lucia Day cinnamon buns instead.

Haskap Berry Tarts

Use the haskaps in your freezer for a delcious and unexpected addition to the dainty tray.

Easy Sour Cherry Tarts

A basic recipe for sour cherry tarts with options for how sweet or sour you like your cherries.

Highly Addictive Almond Roca

I challenge you to only eat one pieces of this almond roca. Make it and watch it disappear.

Easy & Delicious Christmas Fudge

Practically fool-proof fudge that makes a delicious and creative Christmas gift.

Cranberry Butter Tarts

A Christmas baking tray isn’t complete without a delicious, gooey butter tart. . . at least if you’re Canadian. There are many thoughts about what makes the perfect butter tart–homemade or pre-made crust, plain, with nuts, or with raisins?

I present a fourth filling option–dried cranberries. Cranberries add a nice sweet-tart taste to the butter tart and are an unexpected option. So get out your recipe cards and add this one to your Christmas tart recipes section. You have a section for Christmas tarts, don’t you? 😉

Full disclosure: I have no interesting story about these cranberry butter tarts. They were literally created because I didn’t have nuts or raisins and I wanted to try something different. I don’t want to insult your intelligence by adding a story that has no purpose in this post. So scroll on down and get your recipe!

Yield: 16 tarts

Cranberry Butter Tarts

Cranberry Butter Tarts

A Christmas variation on classic butter tarts.

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 beaten egg
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tbsp cream
  • 1 cup dried cranberries
  • 16 tart pastry shells

Instructions

    1. Combine all ingredients (except shells) into a med high pot.

    2. Stir until combined and melted and remove from heat when boiled.

    3. Fill tart shells.

    4. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.

    5. Cool and serve.

© Kristen Raney
A Christmas baking tray isn't complete without these cranberry butter tarts--especially if you're Canadian!! This easy, homemade recipe will some become a holiday favourite! #buttertarts #recipe #Canadian

10 Easiest Annual Cut Flowers to Grow From Seed and 2 to Avoid

Growing a cut flower garden, whether it’s a small plot in your backyard or for profit as part of a flower farm is extremely rewarding. While many perennial flowers make beautiful cut flowers, the true heart of a cut flower garden is annual flowers grown from seed.

Starting flowers from seed can seem intimidating, but it’s quite easy once you get the hang of it. I’ve compiled a list with pictures of my favourite annual cut flowers that are easy to grow, plus a list of those which are harder for beginners. It doesn’t mean you can’t grow the harder ones, they’re just a bit more challenging!

How Long Does it Take to Grow Cut Flowers from Seed?

The days to maturity of each annual flower will vary. The seed packet of each flower variety will give a range of how long the flower needs to grow. Most cut flowers that I grow have a range of 70-100 days to maturity.

One confusing thing about the term “days to maturity” is that it measures the time it takes from the seed being in the ground to the first bloom that opens. This means that you might have 70 days until the first bloom, but it might be more like 80 or 85 days until the flower really gets going.

This is probably not a problem in places with longer growing seasons, but I live in zone 3 in Saskatchewan, where we only have 90-100 growing days depending on what the frost decides to do that year.

Because I have a short growing season, I start almost all of my cut flowers indoors, then direct seed a second crop of the seeds with a shorter number of days to maturity. This way, I’m guaranteed flowers even if we have an early frost and something unexpected happens at either end of the growing season.

When Do I Start Flowers From Seed Indoors?

Generally, I start my flowers 4-6 weeks before I intend to set them outside. I have started them earlier, but I find that they are difficult to harden off and take forever to get going. I’m working on refining my hardening off process, and I promise to share it with you when I find something that’s a little more fool-proof.

That said, there are some varieties that need to be started 8 weeks or more before you intend to plant. Check your seed packets to confirm when it’s best to plant.

Where is the Best Place to Buy Cut Flower Seeds?

You can buy cut flower seeds at your local garden centre or from online seed companies. If you don’t care too much about specific varieties and colours, it’s fine to pick up whatever you find at a garden centre or even a big box store.

If you’re looking for specific specialty colours or the prettiest flowers to blow up your IG feed, you’ll probably need to order online. I’ve compiled a list of the best places to buy seeds for a cutting garden in Canada, the US, and Europe.

Related: The Best Places to Buy Cut Flower Seeds Online

The Best Annual Cut Flower Seeds for Beginners

With all that out of the way, here are my favourite easy-to-grow cut flowers that are perfect for beginners. At the end of the list, I’ll also include others which I think you should avoid, either because they have really long days to maturity, or are difficult to grow.

1. Amaranth

Amaranth is one of the easiest possible flowers for a beginner, especially the Love Lies Bleeding variety pictured here. Direct sow early in the spring, basically forget about them (an occasional watering is appreciated) and collect the blooms in the fall.

2. Calendula

Calendula is a multipurpose flower in the garden. It’s a beautiful and versatile cut flower, it is a beneficial flower in the vegetable garden, and it’s leaves are great dried in homemade beauty products. Who knew a flower that’s so pretty could have so many uses?

3. Cosmos

Cosmos are a wonderful cut-and-come-again flower. There are so many beautiful varieties available that you don’t have to just stick to the basic ones. Try the cupcake, double flowering, or lemon varieties.

4. Pincushions

Pincushions are amazing because they look good at every point in their life cycle. Whether you cut them when they’re just emerging, in bloom, or as a seed pod, they look interesting in the vase.

5. Rudbeckia

Rudbeckia is available in both perennial and annual varieties. This beautiful flower will bloom in late summer and last all the way into the fall until a hard frost.

6. Snapdragons

Snapdragons are easy to find in garden centres and big box stores if you aren’t able to start them from seed yourself. Look for the Madame Butterfly and Rocket varieties to ensure they grow tall enough for cutting.

Snapdragons are surprisingly hardy, and will survive the first frost of the season.

7. Stock

Stock is not a cut-and-come-again flower, but it’s so pretty and so easy to start from seed that it still makes my list. My stock plants also survived the hardening off process in the spring the easiest.

8. Strawflowers

Strawflowers are hands down my new favourite cut flower to grow from seed. Almost every seed I planted came up, they last a long time in the vase, are a cut-and-come-again flower, and are easy and fun to save seeds from. Just make sure you purchase a tall variety, and not a dwarf one that’s meant for pots.

9. Sunflowers

A fall garden isn’t complete without sunflowers! You don’t have to stick with just the yellow ones either. There’s a whole range of beautiful blooms in brown, red, pink, and orange too, with many variations in between. Choose branching varieties so you get the most blooms possible.

10. Zinnias

In my opinion, zinnias are the backbone of a cut flower garden. There’s so many varieties with gorgeous, vibrant colours, in any size. They’re easy to start from seed, and grow well direct soon too. For something different, try growing the Zinderella and Queen Lime varieties.

Cut Flowers Beginners Should Avoid

While I’m a firm believer that you should plant what you love, I also think a head’s up as to what might be difficult for beginners is good too. The following flowers on my list are either hard to grow, had some surprising negatives for them, or require an extra long period to maturity.

Please remember that it’s my personal opinion and what is difficult in my zone 3 garden on the prairies, might not be as difficult where you live.

Poppies

Okay, okay, stop sharpening your pitchforks! I love poppies, but here’s why I think they might not be the best choice for beginners.

  1. Icelandic poppies are finicky to grow in a short growing season. I was able to get them to work by starting them in compostable newsprint pots (Icelandic poppies don’t like to be transplanted, but have a longer period of maturity that doesn’t work in my growing zone). Clearly, from the photo above, I was able to get them to work. However, I don’t think most beginners would be willing to do all the extra steps.
  2. Poppy Blooms are short lived. Last year I planted Thai, Shirley, California, and Icelandic poppies. No matter what variety it was, the blooms barely lasted.
  3. Poppies tend to Re-Seed themselves. This can be a great thing or a terrible thing. The poppies I planted from seed two years ago reseeded themselves and I was thrilled. However, you might not be so thrilled if you didn’t know that poppies would reseed and you didn’t want them there every year.
  4. Poppy stems aren’t that strong. Again, this isn’t the end of the world. But I find it really annoying when I want to put them in a bouquet with other flowers.

Lisianthus

The lisianthus flower is stunningly beautiful, much like a rose. However, it takes around 200 days to mature and requires very specific growing conditions. Again, I realize that this flower is not impossible to grow, and with a bit of research you can figure it out. But if you’re a beginner, it’s probably best to wait a few years before you tackle it.

P.S. This is the only picture in this post that isn’t of a flower grown by me in my garden.

Ready to grow your own beautiful cut flower garden, without the hassel?

I’ve taken all the guesswork out of creating a cut flower garden with my e-book, Cut Flowers Made Simple. It’s the perfect way for beginner and intermediate gardeners to start their own cut flower garden with or without seed starting.

Click on the picture to find out more or get your copy.

So what do you think? Any flower you think should be added to this list? I’d love to hear about it in the comments!

Why Won’t My Christmas Cactus Bloom? (And What to Do About it)

The ground is covered with snow and winter is officially here.  But wait!  A glimmer of hope and sunshine are sure to appear amongst your houseplants.  It’s time for your Christmas cactus to bloom!

But what happens when it doesn’t?  How do you get a Christmas cactus to bloom?  And how do you care for your Christmas Cactus afterwards?

Here are 5 common solutions you can try before you give up on your poor Christmas cactus.

P.S. the “Christmas Cactus” in the pictures is actually a Thanksgiving Cactus.  I’ll explain more about that in point number five.

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The Best Companies to Purchase Cut Flower Seeds for your Backyard Flower Farm

You’ve been stalking your favourite flower growers on Instagram and you’ve decided that it’s finally time to take the plunge–you’re going to grow your own backyard cut flower garden.

But where do you get annual cut flower seeds? The ones in the big box stores and garden centres are nice, but they’re usually not the Floret-style-Instagram-friendly ones that stole your heart and made you want to grow flowers.

Don’t worry. I’ve compiled a list of seed companies that sell annual cut flowers to the backyard gardener–for Canada, the US, and Europe. Being from Canada myself, the Canadian list is the most extensive, but there is enough in the other lists to get you started on your cut flower gardening journey.

How to Choose Which Flower Seed Company to Buy From

After you read my list of companies to purchase flower seeds from, you’re going to likely get overwhelmed. While it’s nice to order a little bit from everyone, it’s also the fastest way to completely blow your budget. Here’s a few of the questions I ask myself when I’m trying to choose which 2 or 3 companies I will order from that year.

  • Is the company in my geographical region? (Not a requirement, but it is a big consideration if you are buying perennials.)
  • Could I also purchase my vegetable seeds there? Sometimes it’s nice to order both your flowers and vegetables from the same place.
  • Which company has 75% or so of the items on my must-have list? I will often go with the company that has the bulk of the flowers that are on my wish list, then buy smaller orders from one or two other companies. And usually a small fall purchase of something or other makes it’s way into my online cart too.
  • If you’re ordering from a different country–Does the price of exchange make it worth buying? Sometimes that specialty flower is just not worth the 30% markup that the exchange brings.
  • Also if you’re ordering from a different country–Will the seed be allowed over the border? The laws between the Canadian and American border are tightening, and sometimes the flower company can not honour your order because it gets stopped at the border. Perennials are a no-go in general.
  • Do I really want specialty colours and varieties, or am I happy with basic cut flowers? If you’re happy with basic cut flowers, you can likely find a decent-enough selection with the company you order vegetables from. If you need the special colours and varieties, then it is 100% worth it to order the bulk of your order from a specialty grower.

There is no right or wrong answer in deciding where to purchase annual cut flower seeds for the year. I hope these questions will help you clarify your answer.

When is the Best Time to Purchase Annual Flower Seeds?

If you are reading this in April or May, it is likely too late to get the best selection. The most popular varieties of cut flowers go out of stock within days of the seed company opening the website for business. If you love a company, you must get on their email list and stalk them on Instagram. It’s the only way to ensure you will know when their shop is open for business.

If you’re looking for perennials, dahlias, or ranunculus, flowers like these will often go on sale in the fall around September/October and will be shipped out in the spring. You can still usually purchase them in the spring, but the most popular varieties are usually not available.

Want to start a backyard flower farm on the cheap? Here’s how one flower farmer did it.

Now, on to the list!!

Please know that I have not personally purchased from all of these companies, although I have from most of the Canadian companies and a few of the American ones. In the case of companies where I have not personally purchased, I have researched their site with the thought in mind, “If I could purchase from this company, does it have enough selection and specialty varieties for me to want to do so?” If the answer is yes, it made the list.

Finally, if there’s a company you think should be on this list, please let us know in the comments!

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Canadian Companies

1. Incredible Seed Company

The selection may not be as large as some other companies, but what is there is very on-trend, and all seeds that the Incredible Seed Company sells are heirloom varieties, so you know you can save the seeds. The Tower Chamois Asters and Charbaud Picotee Dianthus mix are on my must have list.

Also, they stock cracker jack marigolds, which are not the most common cut flower, but one of my favourites for its versatility in both the cut flower garden and the vegetable garden. My baby also enjoyed ripping up the blooms I gave her to play with last summer. 🙂

2. Edgebrook Farm

I might be making a pretty big claim here, but I would consider Edgebrook Farm the Floret Farm of Canada. They are completely revamping their cut flower selection and I am marking my calendar for December 2nd, 2019. If you are wanting to get into flower farming for profit, the seed selection at Edgebrook can’t be beat.

I really appreciate that you can filter their cut flowers by colour or form, and that they have an extensive selection of dahlias. New to cut flowers? I highly recommend the Garden collection of dahlias. Its a small but beautiful collection that will get you hooked on the wonderful world of dahlias. No ugly big-box-store-varieties here!

3. Veseys

I personally love Veseys because it is truly one-stop-online-shopping for everything plants. The selection of vegetable seeds, cut flower seeds, and perennials is all really good. New to flower gardening? The perennial kits are a no-brainer way to start a flower bed.

Veseys is also one of the few places that has bulk quantities of seed and perennials that you can order as a gardener and not a farmer.

Last year I ordered calendula, zinderella peach zinnias, and my queen lime series of zinnias with great results.

(Slightly unrelated–if you do order flowers from there, you must hop over to the vegetable section and order yourself a packet of Sunset Orange Paste tomato seeds. Amazing fresh taste, great for making tomato sauce less acidic, each plant has TONS of tomatoes, and if you ripen them indoors they do not go bad quickly.)

4. Whistling Prairie

Whistling Prairie is a flower farm in Southern Saskatchewan and Dawn has one of the most beautiful & honest accounts on Instagram. When she opens the cart for seed, bulb, or dahlia sales, the flowers fly off the shelves. This year I was able to score two varieties of ranunculus, and I hope to purchase more if I can just get it together and get on the site immediately when it opens! It’s worth the trouble, as the tulip and dahlia varieties she carries are so gorgeous.

Related: The 36 Best Cut Flowers You Can Grow

5. Antonio Valente Flowers

I wish I new Antonio in real life, because when I read his captions on Instagram, I want to cheer for team flowers every time. And I’d love to sit down, drink coffee, and chat flowers. Oh who are we kidding, I’d want to see the farm! Anyway. . .

Antonio Valente Flowers carries a Floret-style assortment of dahlias, tulips, ranunculus, anemones, and narcissus. His offerings usually sell out fast, so get online ASAP when the shop opens for best selection. My favourites are the Cornel Bronze dahlias and Renown Unique tulips.

6. Dahlia May Flower Farm

Dahlia May Flower Farm is a family farm offering bulbs, corms, subscriptions, and bulk flower purchasing for DIY wedding flowers in the summer. The tulip bulbs always go quickly, but I was surprised to see when I was researching this post that almost all the ranunculus varieties were still available. If you haven’t grabbed any yet this season, head on over and order yours.

7. Brecks

Looking for perennials as part of your cut flower garden? Brecks is the place. You can filter the perennials be zone, exposure, colour, height, bloom time, and usage. Make sure to check the Cut Flowers box under usage to make sure the perennials you buy will have long enough stems. The Super Saks are a great deal if you have a large space to fill.

As for my favourites, the Pink Hawaiian Coral peony, October Sky dahlia, and Creme de la Creme phlox are on my must-have list.

Brecks is a Canadian company, but they also ship to the US and internationally.

8. Unicorn Blooms

Unicorn Blooms is another flower grower with a swoon-worthy Instagram account. They have large quantities for flower farmers, and smaller quantities for home gardeners. If you’re a Canadian Flower Farmer, this is one of the go-to places for Floret-style flowers in large quantities in Canada.

The offerings were quite small at the time I wrote this post, however, I know that they are continually updated depending on when its time to plant a certain flower. Get on their mailing list or check back often for availability.

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American Companies

As a Canadian, I am always very excited when American companies ship to Canada. I have included a note about the ones that ship here. If you are a Canadian purchasing from an American company, please note that you will not be able to purchase any perennials, some annuals, and occasionally your order will not be allowed to cross the border.

If you are an American reading this list, I would love to know what companies you would add.

1. Floret Flower Farm

Due to the popularity of their small-scale flower farming book, Floret Flower Farm is the go-to seed company for beautiful, on-trend flowers. If you are planning to purchase anything from Floret, I highly recommend signing up for their newsletter so you can mark your calendar when flowers and seeds are available for purchase.

The most popular varieties sell out FAST. So fast that if you don’t purchase on the opening day, you might not get what you want. They also ship to Canada, but some varieties are not allowed to cross the border–bread poppies & peony poppies, I’m looking at you!!!

If you loved the first Floret book, you’ll want to get on the waiting list for the second, A Year in Flowers, and the third book about Dahlias coming soon.

I couldn’t resist including a pic from my Floret-style photoshoot!

2. Johnny’s Seeds

Didn’t get your order in fast enough at Floret? Go to Johnny’s Seeds where you’ll find just as beautiful and on-trend colours and varieties. Excellent selection and good prices. Get your vegetable seeds there too, as the selection is very impressive. Johnny’s Seeds offers different quantities of seeds for flower farmers or home gardeners and they also ship to Canada!

3. Harris Seeds & Garden Trends

Harris Seeds has every type of cut flower seed you could possibly want in large quantities for flower farmers. Its sister company, Garden Trends, offers a similar selection in quantities more suitable for the home gardener.

I like the Double Click Rose Bon Bon Cosmos, Larkspur Cannes Mix, and their beautiful collection of Ornamental Kale.

Related: How to Create a Beautiful Cut Flower Bouquet

4. Select Seeds

Select Seeds also has an impressive variety of unusual and on-trend cut flowers. The Apricot Lemonade Cosmos are a must-have that I haven’t seen on any other seed companies page. There are over 50 varieties of zinnias and I really need the Eldarado one in my life (a double flowering salmon colour). The rare finds section is also worth a look. They also ship to Canada for a flat rate of $15

Double flowering buttercream and apricot stock.

5. White Flower Farm

No annual seeds here, but a very impressive selection of beautiful perennials. If you want to focus on perennial cut flowers, White Flower Farm is an excellent mail-order option. I’ve found over the years when I’ve researched them, that the website is always up to date, and whatever is seasonal and on offer looks so good, making me wish I could order there!

My American readers assure me that the quality of the perennials you order is second to none. I also appreciate how you can filter perennials by price, zone, growing conditions, colour, and more.

6. Swallowtail Garden Seeds

Swallowtail Garden Seeds is based in the US, but will ship to both Canada and Internationally for a reasonable flat fee. The selection is impressive and there are quite a few varieties that I didn’t see anywhere else in my research.

Must-haves for me include cupcakes pink zinnias, Queen lime with blotch zinnias, Gypsy charmer sunflower, and anything in the twinny snapdragon series.

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European Companies

I’m sure there are many other growers whose websites are in different languages, but these are the English-language ones I could find. If you know of any good growers whose website is in another language in Europe, please let us know in the comments.

1. Chiltern Seeds

They have over 1000 cut flower varieties for sale. Enough said.

2. Seedaholic

I love that Seedaholic has separate sections for cut flowers, dried flowers, edibles, and flowers that are good for natural dyes. Also a good selection of wildflowers and bee-friendly options.

3. Sarah Raven

A beautiful selection of unique cut flowers in trendy colours. I especially love the cut flower garden kit, which is a selection of easy to grow cut flowers perfect for the beginner gardener. There’s just enough of each variety to keep a backyard flower gardener in bouquets all season long.

4. Suttons

The Cut Flower Wall Chart and Growing Guide is very helpful for trying to plan your backyard garden. Even if you don’t live in the UK and the timings don’t quite apply to your situation, its still helpful for planning out enough filler, thriller, and spiller flowers for your garden.

Got all your flowers and looking for vegetable seeds? Here’s 20 more companies me and my readers recommend.

There you have it, 18 different cut flower places to order cut flowers online! I’d love to hear if there’s a hidden gem I’ve missed.

Ready to grow your own beautiful cut flower garden, without the hassel?

I’ve taken all the guesswork out of creating a cut flower garden with my e-book, Cut Flowers Made Simple. It’s the perfect way for beginner and intermediate gardeners to start their own cut flower garden with or without seed starting.

Click on the picture to find out more or get your copy.

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