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Flowers for Sale: Growing and Marketing Cut Flowers - Backyard to Small Acreage (Bootstrap Guide) [Paperback]

Lee Sturdivant (Author), Peggy Sue McRae (Illustrator)

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Paperback: 197 pages
Publisher: San Juan Naturals,U.S.; Reprint edition (1 Dec 1992)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0962163511
ISBN-13: 978-0962163517
Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14 x 1.3 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 524,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Everything you need to know to start a cut-flower business. Which flowers to grow; How to harvest and condition flowers; Where to sell; How to price; How many successful growers operate. Part one: How you can start a simple supermarket bouquet business. Part Two: Interviews with growers, buyers, and sellers. Part Three: The Cut Flower Catalogue lists hundreds of varieties of perennials, annuals, bulbs, tubers, trees, vines, shrubs, and herbs that can be successfully grown and sold.

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Amazon.com: 4.3 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Like visiting a gardening friend, 28 Feb 2000

By Joann Harrison - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Flowers for Sale: Growing and Marketing Cut Flowers - Backyard to Small Acreage (Bootstrap Guide) (Paperback)

If you are thinking about selling cut-flowers this book is straight talk from one who has 'been there'. Nothing important has been overlooked. The chapters on harvesting,conditioning,pricing and marketing are outstanding. Personality profiles of individual flowers lets the beginner choose with confidence.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Conditioning Advice Ever, 3 April 2007

By Pat Patterson "Happy Farmer" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Flowers for Sale: Growing and Marketing Cut Flowers - Backyard to Small Acreage (Bootstrap Guide) (Paperback)

Yes, she spends a great deal of time chatting with growers, but this book has the BEST info on conditioning that you will find in a mass-market offering. Just as top chefs will alter recipes so that no one can duplicate their materpieces exactly, most flower growers are very tight-lipped about their secrets and will write pages and pages without giving specifics. Lee manages to extract wonderful information from her subjects.

Horticulture and marketing specifics are available in hundreds of other places: only here will you find a reliable guide to the best cut flowers and real, plant-specific conditioning practices. I used her advice for Cleome and won a blue ribbon at the county fair (the flowers lasted 2 weeks in the vase!). I use this book as my ultimate guide to plant selection and conditioning, and she has never steered me wrong.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great information from growing to conditioning flowers, 9 Mar 2001

By rkfergie - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Flowers for Sale: Growing and Marketing Cut Flowers - Backyard to Small Acreage (Bootstrap Guide) (Paperback)

great information. she interviewed growers and marketers of all types of florals, dried and fresh. her advice about growing, cutting, conditioning and marketing will be invaluable. written so that the layman understands. i like the many interview with people actually doing this (not a bunch of academic morons with no life experience just spouting rhetoric.).

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