Two Sisters Flower Farm is small, family-owned flower farm growing + selling specialty cut flowers in West Michigan (Gardening Zone 5b). Over the years, we've expanded our offerings to include even more seasonal favorites: like heirloom pumpkins + potted mums in the fall, and fresh evergreen porch pots in the winter.
Here at Two Sisters Flower Farm, we're dedicated to helping you celebrate the magic of every season. Follow along as we show you exactly how we plan + grow a full year of in-season blooms.
How do you do the section that you direct sow? Is it also under the mulch or is it on the top? If it’s under do you just place 2-3 seeds in a hole of the plastic?
Wow, so good! I love your transparency, it is really good food for thought, truly. Thank you for sharing this. Having to figure out what works for your particular circumstances and being honest with yourself, being able to let go...thats hard but finding out, its a must and being ok with it is huge. This is still a struggle for me, not following the crowd but what works for me. This year is my biggest garden, i nearly killed myself...haha but, what i discovered is i need to let go of some of the flowers, and I'm ok with it! Lisianthus and Ranunculus are not my strong suite and so i decided after this year, no more. I felt the stress leave my body almost immediately. Im glad i have tried them but, have to let go.
Hello, I just watched your video on forcing tulips. Do you have a follow up video with the dates and the temperatures that you had to keep your tulip bulbs at for early bouquets. I’m a flower farmer in upstate Vermont and I’m thinking about doing this process For next year for Mother’s Day and Valentine’s . Any information on temperature and dates that it took the tulips to bloom would be helpful. Thank you so much. I enjoy all your videos very informative. Darci
I'm a prepper gardener, and like you said, you can throw them in where nothing else will grow and up they go. I like Mammoth Jerusalem Artichokes (sunflower tubers) and Grey Stripe Mammoth.
I will say all of your information helped me to get the right equipment and items to get my setup goin ! It has worked very well. I find the amount of water to be the greatest challenge but am getting better! thanks for the great video!
this was my first year growing spring flowers that were fall planted. they have been amazing ! but alot of work when theres other work that has deadlines too ! i am going to keep growing them but change my volume and strategy just a bit to get it all done! it is hard with one person doing the majority of the work! thanks for the honest and helpful content on all your videos !
Or like me you just make hubby hook up the tiller and start making beds everywhere 😅. You need A TON of flowers to crank out beautiful bouquets consistently. Weeding is the bane of my existence. Especially since I hate landscape cloth and refuse to use synthetic chemicals.
I live in Michigan too and just planted some beautiful roses . I have a very big bag of different flowers seeds but I didn't plant them yet . I don't know if it's too late to plant them now or they should be good
I love this plant. I’m gonna have to get a few more of them and different colors so far all I have are the white ones and I love everything about them the flowers the leaf structure. They are just beautiful.
I’m starting this year. I feel that the market isn’t saturated because not everyone grows the same flowers nor do they sell the same way. So many options available. This video was so amazing and informative. Thank you so much for sharing. **Another reason we’re not saturated is because there’s still flowers being brought into the US from other countries 😢 we need more flower farmers🎉🌼🎉🌼
I would love your 1/4 acre plan but we dont have any land. Can you make something similar but for like a home garden. Maybe like 10x20 feet? I would totally buy that.
I’m growing mums this year . They tell me to put down white rock or 57 rock . Is sand better? It sure is more cost effective! I have the injection system and all irrigation components but I would like to see how that works. Maybe to late for a video but still interested. I’m in Tennessee just above the Mississippi Alabama line zone 7B. Thanks Daniel
Another great video with lots of helpful information. I was never much of a daffodil fan until I was introduced to the double varieties. They're so beautiful.
This video was so helpful. I know one of the varieties that I planted new last year was Sir Winston Churchill. I'm hoping that they multiply quickly. I am very interested in your fall sale of these bulbs. Do you recommend that we just contact you in September?
I do only grow them in crates...ranunculus + anemones are a bit tricky in our climate. I'm hoping to get a video filmed in the near future sharing our process.
I would love to have 6 shelves for my grow racks, but I can barely reach the top of the 5 tier shelf 🤣and honestly I can't so that is where I store things I don't need all the time.
Great information, I agree with you completely. This winter was my first season of cool flowers and a new new home and I have a better idea what to plant a lot of and what to plant less of and what I started too late in the season and need to fall so for next year. I like the shorter videos also
A flower farm has been my dream for a few years, and this year I am starting super small, with plan to go bigger next year in two spaces, well two types of flowers. This is my tester/learning year. And I am still currently employed full time and the figuring out of what can be done when is the hardest part. For instance I also make garden content, so I was planting bulbs by flashlight this morning so I could record what I was doing, while praying no spiders or snakes snuck up on me and swatting away the annoying gnats this time of year. This has given me hope that all this is not in vain. Thank you!
It's always a hard balance! And I can relate so much to your experience right now. The good news is that it often gets better so keep on going, I'm cheering you on!
Perfect video! I am 3rd year flower farmer. So refreshing to hear your thoughts! I will definitely change my thought process and already feel like I have gained back a lot of time and energy! Love your videos- simple, direct and so full of great information! Thank you and please continue to do more of the same!
Thank you so much for your kind words! Love that you're gaining time + energy as you gain clarity around what works well for you! Wishing you much success this season!
You're not wrong. A lot of people jumping on the flower farming bandwagon with a copy and paste strategy they are getting from other RU-vidrs and a certain flower breeder etc. EVERYTHING in farming is about individual context. Skill, property, needs, goals, objectives, time etc are different for everyone. Sometimes not even by choice. Also, profitability isn't about scale or how many varities you can grow. I've found that being lean and consistent has been the best strategy for profitability in my context. While leaving a little room for experiments each season. Great video. Gotta give kudos to any growers, RU-vidrs etc that are pushing back against the trends and acknowledging the importance of context. Personally, I can't wait for the day I can find a way out of tulips. When I was a veggie grower I absolutely hated growing indeterminate tomatoes. Tulips are now my tomatoes.
I've binge watched many of your videos as I'm fairly new to all of this. I'll need to watch this again after I know more because i don't know what what hardy annuals are and had a hard time following along. 😂 Keep up the great work!
Glad the content is helpful (even if you're not yet quite sure what hardy annuals are 😉) I have a feeling you'll catch on to all this flower growing stuff fast so keep up the good work!
Makes sense! I love your idea of single variety bouquets. My sweet peas, scabiosa and anemone transplanted in the fall are just blooming in May - as the self-sown zinnia, cosmos, and marigolds are popping out the ground. I had envisioned March and April cool flower harvests... but its all overlapping!!
The campanula shown in this video were grown from plugs that I purchased from a plug wholesaler. I have grown it from seed before though and believe it came from Johnny’s Selected Seed ✨
Such a great video! I really appreciate the comprehensive information about starting seeds indoors. I want to find lights like yours and add more trays to my meager seed starting set up. Once I take off the humidity some I use plastic wrap to cover the cells with no germination and that really helps.
With just a few raised beds, no good way to start seeds and bad knees, my focus this year is growing flowers for myself and to just share. I want to try hardy annuals so i dont have to spend so much on watering and deal with the heat of summer here in Missouri 5b. But will I be sorry if I devote my beds to those and dont do tender annuals? I guess the only way to know is to try it for a season or two...🤷♀️
I love this plan! It sounds like you've really thought this through and you're right...the only way to know for sure is to try it out for a season or two. Wishing you the best in luck as you find what works best for you!
Thanks for sharing your experiences with growing cool flowers. I do grow them, and I love campanula. My challenge is finding enough room for warm season annuals with beds full of nigella, snaps, larkspur, etc.
