Where does a gardener's passion for plants come from? Well, for this flower farmer in Clarksville Tennessee, it came from her grandmother. Dahlias, zinnias, marigolds and amaranth are just some of the pretty flowers she has available for purchase at her flower stand at the end of her driveway. She plants and harvests throughout each growing season.
They grow a lot of things at Bloomsbury Farm. On this visit, Jeff Poppen explores the flower fields where they grow many different types of annual flowers to be used in pre-made bouquets or a U-pick opportunity. Amaranth, gomphrena, sunflowers, marigolds, celosia, borage, and straw flowers are just a sampling of the flowers being grown on this farm.
Troy Marden hosts a fresh florals workshop with famed floral designer J Schwanke of J Schwanke's Life in Bloom. Learn how to set a mood with the flower colors chosen for an arrangement. Plus, these two designers share tips for creating structure in a vase, and for longer vase life.
