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  • From: wakely11 AT swbell.net
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: row crops
  • Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 20:54:47 -0700


I'm a fairly new flower farmer in Oklahoma (Zone 7--aka the grasshopper
zone) and a member of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers.

In this area we grow zinnias, snaps, celosia cristata, celosia flamingo
feather, strawflowers, rudbeckia, purple coneflower, bells of ireland,
foxglove, larkspur, lavender, lisianthus, sunbright sunflowers (ASCFG
flower of the year for 2000) and even know some growers in Texas who
grow spectacular specialty delphinium in the field. Some of us start
everything from seed and some buy plugs. Just don't grow any of the
"floristy" looking stuff. The more you grow what looks like stuff out
of "granny's garden" the better the customers like it. Last year at
farmers' market I sold all the zinnias I grew plus sunflowers, wild
sunflowers, and other wildflowers (that had good stems) that I gathered
in the pastures around me. My customers were crazy about the bouquets.

Good book is The Flower Farmer by Lynn Byczinski and Specialty Cut
Flowers by Allan Armitage (the flower farmer's bible).

Nancy Wakely
Grand Canadian Farm




  • row crops, wakely11, 05/30/2001

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