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Posted by beth47-romania Romania (My Page) on Wed, Jan 23, 08 at 9:26
| We are a small Christian charity based in North-eastern Romania - we try to help the poor with projects like market gardens, etc. We have been very successful with vegetables, but last year we tried to branch out into the cut-flower market - with mixed results. We got some very beautiful flowers, but a lot more burnt up in the greenhouse because of heat and we lost more in transport. Our families transport on foot, bicycle or horse and cart (mostly) and so transporting flowers is an issue. Can anyone give us some ideas as to which flowers will grow well in our climate and be hardy enough to handle being transported in the way described and still be nice enough to sell? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your prompt response. |
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RE: cut flowers (question)
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| Beth, you might want to check out the cutting garden forum. Depending on your zone, lilies, dahlias, sunflowers, delphiniums, statice, millets, grasses, echinops, yarrow, zinnas. Good luck. |
RE: cut flowers (question)
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| Thanks Bryan - appreciate the heads up and will definitely check it out... |
RE: cut flowers (question)
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| I had good luck with sunflowers. I bought the branching type and one called "Florist Mix". If you can pick them when it is cool,say early morining they seem to hold okay. If you pack them with bottles of water that have been frozen that also helps. Re-cutting the stems at market and putting them immediatly in fresh water will help them hold up pretty good even when it gets hot. Buy seed that says it doesn't polinate for best results. |
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