Succession Planting Cut Flowers - A Complete Guide // Northlawn Flower Farm 

Thank you, Danielle!! This is just perfect!! Have you considered writing a cut flower book or workbook?? You certainly should-you have such expertise and experience and I’ll bet it would be a bestseller!!! 💐💕

Here's a great tip for succession cropping : when you pinch out the growing tip of cosmos and sweet peas, you can make them root in a pot, so you have more plants in different stages of growth. I think it works with zinnias too. I do this with basil and nasturtiums too. Growing tips of these plants can root easily in water, same for mint and rosemary.

We learn so much from you! Not only do our brains get healthier, so do our hearts as you spread this love of gardening. And you deliver this information in the most beautiful way…I love the way you were situated in a different setting as you covered the topics. The background scenery is beautiful!

Whew, that was a lot of information, but as usual, you broke it down into easy to understand sections. Thank you for providing such a valuable resource for growing cut flowers! ♥️💐🌷

Danielle! You've outdone yourself with this one! You've literally covered everything! I wish I would've had this video when I was first starting out!

Thank you! I found this very helpful! Going into my second year and it never occurred to me I could succession plant glads and lilies. 😄

Wow! This video was just packed full of such useful and practical info. I know I'll be watching it a few times again during my season planning. Thank you!!!

Wow! Awesome. Thank you for breaking this down into understanding how to do succession planting. It always seemed so overwhelming and you have just helped me so much. Your presentation is so pleasant and professional. You should have a show on pbs.

So helpful!! Your bi-weekly and 4 week planting group plan make so much sense!! Simple and effective. Thank you for sharing your knowledge in such a warm and accessible way Danielle :)

Thank you so much for this information. I need to watch again and take notes. I grow flowers for my own enjoyment and would like to succession plant to have color more consistently. I also want to try some new varieties. Your knowledge and experience is so helpful and inspiring. I dislike when people make comments on videos about what the people are wearing or other unrelated subjects but I have to comment, your skin and make up look flawless!

Fascinating. I just need a house and garden now lol. A interesting tip I learned I think it was from my grandma that would be VERY helpful for anyone that doesn't know is peonies when the buds are in ball form right before they open and are still in a tight ball you can cut the stem and keep it in the fridge for up to a month to have a succession of peonies. When you take it out it will just progress normally and open up. Also another reason why you want to cut peony when it is near opening but still in a ball bud is then you get NO ANTS in your blooms! I don't know if this will help anyone but freesia bulbs are not very expensive and they are south african bulbs which make them really easy to keep dormant they don't need cold, they are heat dormant bulbs. You can keep them dormant for a year. They also only grow around 12 inches and can be planted very close to each other and in containers, so they are very easy to succession plant and reuse every year. They can get multiple spikes of blooms some are very fragrant some slightly. The bloom spikes can last up to 3 weeks when cut! They have really cool doubles now. I actually am in an condo and grow them in succession in a few pots under LED lights very easy and rewarding. I do a doubles mix and the heirloom alba which are the most fragrant. You can have like 15 bulbs in a 8 inch pot and can get 15 bulbs for like 6 dollars easy they are on sale frequently and because they are south african heat dormant bulbs they are always easy to buy and ready to go to plant! David Austin roses are also really amazing they have succession of flowers and amazing different flower structure go on the site and take a look. So you can have roses over a long period of time. They have amazing scents too. The only downside is they aren't super long lasting cut flowers maybe 5 days and the flowers can be so massive with so many petals some varieties the heads can slightly nod. You can order them in the USA nowadays which is really cool. They are great for the home gardener for cut flowers in your home but won't last weeks if you sell cut flowers but I guess that isn't a big deal if you only use a small amount and cut some in large bud in the arrangement.

Thanks, Danielle! This was super helpful. I'm growing in zone 8b in western Washington state. Last year I tested my space with lots of cutting flowers and gave many to friends and neighbors. This year, I'm hoping to succession plant and sell bouquets from the house. This video really has helped me in clearly mapping out my space and my calendar. Thank you! And, happy gardening. :)

OH MY those amaryllis flowers are gorgeous behind you....

Thanks for the great video! I'm just getting into cut flowers. I've been gardening 15+ years but I usually just enjoy them in my yard. This last summer my daughter and I had a blast giving bouquets away. Thanks for the lists of flowers to try. I'm in Utah in a desert. I don't deal with powdery mildew, blight etc. We deal with need to keep moisture in our soil. Thanks

Dried flowers on the Christmas tree🎄. Festive, colorful, and a great reminder flowers are gifts from God to us.

Thank you so much, your videos are always so helpful and I love listening to you! After growing veggies for years, I have started a cut flower garden last year that is so much fun. I'll watch this video again tonight an take notes! :-) Greetings from Germany, Zone 7b

Well that was extremely helpful. Thank you Danielle! I'm expanding my garden and also the varieties I'm growing, so lots of new things, and it's a little overwhelming. Thank you for your positive attitude, you are my inspiration! In my dry zone zinnias go strong all season, which I'm thankful for because the 3b season is very short. Your take on Nigella was also helpful, I was wondering why the second wave was so short! I will definitely be succession planting those! I'll be referring back to this video often. Thanks again. And look at all those amaryllis! 😁👍

This is by far the best video I have seen on this topic. I would also love you to share 2 others things about this topic: 1. your process for planning on the graft paper & what your calendar looks like & 2. your seed starting tips/ where you begin and when. You did this with the sunflower & glads. Do you do anything in the house or with winter sowing - outside but in protected containers. Thank for for all of your sharing.

You are a remarkable teacher with a gorgeous smile 🥰. I absolutely LOVE your arrangements and you have certainly inspired and enlightened me . Thank you ❤️

This was the best comprehensive video on just plain gardening. The fact that plenty of us would love to have flowers blooming in Sept, but haven't cracked the code to doing that. Thanks for offering your wealth of knowledge.!

Just watched this again after a first year of committed cut flower growing. And yes, I have learned SO much through failure. Tonight is first night below freezing and, while I was able to squeak out a fourth of a last planting of Pro-Cuts, I am leaving so many at the almost-there stage! It seems they can take some cold, but I'm not optimistic as these temps will continue for the next week. Painful lesson learned. So much important material covered here. Thank you for this post. Helpful indeed, and perfect timing.

Great job on this topic! I don't sell flowers, but this will work when planting in one's a landscape. It will give my landscape seasonal longevity is mass. This will be year two for me to grow annuals from seed under lamps. I have alwAys relied on perrenials, shrubs and trees_ but have really come to love growing annuals.

Thank you for always keeping the flower growing process real. I find your own experiences very helpful. Happy growing.

I’ve always been intimidated by succession planting, but you broke it down into simpler terms and included information about pests too. You also have the calmest voice so I tend to listen before bed and fall asleep to your videos. The next day, I’d watch the parts I fell asleep to. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge, Danielle! 😂

Such fantastic information! I can already tell that this video will be on repeat for me 😊 I sowed Procuts in succession last season and like you, I had sunflowers from June to late Fall. I did a few other successions of Zinnia and Cosmos but I need to do better on both of those. As always, I love your style of teaching, thank you! 💚

Great video! Clear, organized, and loaded with great information. Thanks so much!

What a wealth of information you shared! Thank you! This will be my second season growing cut flowers this made the idea of succession planting much more doable. I did some in my first year but with no real plan or schedule in mind. This video helped me so much and now I am ready to plan out my growing season with much more confidence. Thanks again!

So incredibly helpful the way you explained all of that Danielle! We will be taking these tips as we’re in the midst of garden planning flowers & veggies!

As of 2021 I am a new home gardener and I was getting overwhelmed with what to do this year with planning. I got very excited and bought a bunch of seeds and wondered where to start. I nor anyone I know gardens and I have no other source for information besides the internet and honestly local nurseries aren't that great of a source of info. I also live in southeastern PA and you always have videos that are easy to understand, informative, and keep me on track for the season. If I had one gardening channel to watch for the rest of forever it would be yours! I'm always rewatching your videos and perusing your garden for inspiration. Thank you so much for all of the hard work and thought you put into your videos! You didn't miss a thing!

Thank you, Danielle, this video is such a generous offering to us! I am a first year grower on a quarter acre - my learner year - and there are definitely things yiuve highlighted that I would have completely missed!!!

Thank you Danielle, this is so useful! Could you do a video on staking? I find it a very diffucult issue and fail at it in my garden :-)

One of the most helpful videos I’ve seen thus far on succession planting, thank you for breaking it down and making it simple!

Excellent information Danielle 💕 Thank You so much 🌸💐🌸

Another great video!

Danielle - what great information! Thank you for the deep dive. I'm getting ready for year 2 and am going to really work the calendar and do succession planting. My first experience with it was with pro cuts late last summer - I really pushed the dates on planting some at the end - and like you said - it wasn't very expensive to throw in 50 plants and voila! They all grew in plenty of time here in central Ohio. Please keep these types of videos coming!

Thank you Danielle This video helps so much with the overwhelmed feelings and confusion of all the different opinions out there. This going to be a very useful tool. If you ever do decide to write a cut flower book - I will be first in line to get one. thx again

My family just bought our first home and this is my first time getting to plant flowers. I love learning about all the different types of flowers you grow and how to care for them. I just bought gladiolus corms, zinnia, sweet pea, snapdragon, and sunflower seeds! Super excited to watch them grow! thank you!

New subscriber here. Wow! I am so glad I found you. I think this is the first time I have ever taken notes while watching a RU-vid video. So much good information. I am super excited to try out these methods and get more of a sense of control over what sometimes feels haphazard. Thank you for your excellent content.

Appreciate the details! Thanks so much. I’m thinking I need more lillies 😀

This is super helpful Danielle! I actually just referenced you in my new video post today about succession planting on glads cuz I basically learned this concept and practice from you! 💜 you probably just made my flower harvests fuller and richer this year 💙

This is a great trial on succession planting! I really didn’t know how to do it but knew I wanted to do it, thank you! Hugs and love from Texas!

I love this simple way of keeping track of succession planting! I was doing it with a few plants , but only had a real plan for sunflowers. Thank you so much!

Hi this is Gene Smith I do memorial Park in New Kensington Pennsylvania and I have 30 gardens out there they're just beautiful I've been doing it for about 18 19 years so if you ever get a chance to come up this way come and see it thanks a lot bye-bye hun I've learned a lot from you too

Great information! I am not a flower farmer but I grow a few cut flowers for family graves at the cemetery next to our house and for family in general, myself included. We live in a rural area and in the house my husbands grandparents built. They gave the local church land for the cemetery and in return had burial plots allotted to them and their children. They have since passed and so we have a few close relatives including my husbands sister and mother in that cemetery. My mother and father recently passed but I have to drive an hour away to visit graveside. I did not buy flowers for any gravesides this last year. I cut them here at home which was a good feeling and heartfelt for the rest of our family who knew that I’d grown everything we had put on the graves of our loved ones. We are on 13 acres, much of which is covered in Douglas fir trees as a crop for lumber and pasture for our horses. I still have an abundance of ground for growing flowers and veggies. I did zinnias, branching sunflowers, dahlias, gladiolus, snapdragons, salvia, gomphrena, marigolds, baby’s breath and cosmos as cut flowers last year. The bells of Ireland I had planted years ago. They reseed themselves every year and are kind of a thug and a pain to control. Does no one else experience this? Most say that direct seeding them does not work. They came up the second year after sowing the seeds in spring for me in zone 8B. Now they are prolific in that bed. I weed them out so they can be managed for the rest of the snaps and other plants I want to grow but it hurts my heart to do it. I’ve gotten in all my orders for so many more seeds and fillers this year because of your videos. All this to say that I appreciate your channel and you.

Danielle, this is so helpful! I've struggled to wrap my mind around succession planting. Thank you!

Thanks so much!! Your presentations are always terrific. My wife and I always love watching your videos. :)

Thank you!!!

This was so helpful! This will be my first year. I've been so intimidated to get started. Your videos are the most hopeful I've found. Planning the layout, what grows well next to each other and succession planning has been hardest. Thanks for all your helpful videos Danielle

Danielle, thank you so much for this wonderful video! Took so many notes while watching. You present things in an easy to understand way and have really de-mystified succession planting for me! Much appreciated video! Thank you.

I don’t know if I’ve ever said it before, but I love your channel and how you explain/teach about gardening. I’ve learned a lot already. My garden (I do container garden 🪴) has exploded in beauty! Thank you and God bless you, Danielle! ❤️❤️❤️ Btw, I love the long videos!! 😊

Amazing! Thank you so much for this information. I have been spending hours on trying to gather this exact information. I am so grateful for all of your hard work and willingness to share. Thank you!!

This is amazing Danielle thank you! I’m doing succession sowing (more like seasonal sowing) for the first time this year. Last year, I had that big beautiful flush of flowers from a single planting and I want to try to build on that and have something all season! ❤️❤️❤️

Hi Danielle! I just wanted to take the time to let you know how much I appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos. You truly turned my day around today. Thank you for reminding me to feel inspired and optimistic about life! I hope all is well.

Thank you Danielle, this is so valuable to me . Using a calendar would make things less confusing. You are my favorite teacher. Linda from Carlisle, Pa.

Thank you Danielle for sharing. I enjoy your videos and have definitely learned alot from you. I am in Western North Carolina and I am starting my first year of flower farming spring of 2023. I super excited !

Again! Another video so full of valuable and relevant information. Thank you sooo much Danielle!!

Thank you for sharing Danielle that is some really great advice. I have not even tried succession planting yet. So I wanted to try it this year and hear from someone who has experience. Thanks again!!

Amazing video! Such great detail. I'm going to have to watch it again. I would love to succession plant more. I have a very small space in my backyard that gets full sun. You gave me a lot to think about. You did an amazing job giving the outline then explaining each step. Well done!

Ditto all the positive comments. Thank you also for including the gorgeous amaryllises in your shots!

Danielle thank-you 🧤👒🦘🐨🇦🇺😎Karen from Australia

wow! Great video, so helpful! I'd like to see a video on foliage bush fillers. I live in tuscany and it's similar to a zone 8b/9a.

How do you spell the name of the filler flower after the celosia, in your bi weekly succession (19:05) in the video ? my spelling is awful ! Your videos are my favs! You have been so helpful. I had my first rookie year 2021 of just growing flowers for family and friends! ! Now 2022 the farm flower stand starts as soon as the daffodils are up and blooming ! You are AMAZING ! keep up the great videos.

Sooo helpful! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for this massively helpful video. It reminded me that I need to do better to prepare with season extenders. I’m in 4b (southeastern SD), and I would have been able to keep my snapdragons and zinnias going much later (into November!) if I had covered them. Lesson learned - be prepared. Thank you again!

Excellent video!

Wow you are just wow!!!

All your videos are helpful!

Thanks for the useful tips. I grow mostly perennials and shrubs in my garden, but my favorite annuals are nigella and batchelors buttons. I use these in my flower arrsngements. Love gladiolusbut I have gopher problems here. It is one of their favorites🤨

Thanks for sharing allllllll this info !!! 😁 Can't wait to see all your 2022 plants 😊

I adore cosmo foliage for bouquets. Probably more than the flower lol

I just want to pop in and say thank you! I’m just a small space home and community garden gardener but I have a huge desire to grow a cutting garden on half of my plot this year. I just want to enjoy bouquets from home and to share with family and friends. I’m learning so much from you, and I feel so peaceful and thankful as I watch you present information. Thanks for teaching us!

Very, very helpful! I keep referencing to this

Such a great video

You go Pennsylvania gurl!! Connie from GA saying. You do live in GOD'S COUNTY 🙏

Possibly the single most helpful and clear explanation of successional planting I’ve watched. Thank you very much.

Great info, this could totally be put into a spreadsheet I agree, I was surprised to learn cosmos were a cut flower. They don't last long

Nice knowledge - thanks

Fantastic vlog, Danielle. Thank you!

I would love an ebook or class on a planned garden with the purpose of cut flower production and a nice area to enjoy. Say a 25x25 or 50x50 growing area made into an interesting planting diagram with these sort of succession planting schedules & notes. This would be so fun, like a "grow along" small/medium scale (maybe there is a way to make it scaleable) project for us to gain skills.

Danielle, thank you for a treasure trove of information!

Thank you! Very helpful.

Loved this, very helpful. Thank you

So much good information! Thank you!

love you, watching this again

I have been putting in new gardens in North Georgia on a lake in zone 8. I’ve been very careful to plant what the deer don’t like (we love our deer). I’d never seen a Japanese Beatle but hoards of them showed up and trashed all my Canna. I tried to get a jump on it the 2nd year, but they still did 50% damage. I’ve ripped them all out! I have found with the very high moisture in the air from the lake, that Rudbeckia Black Eyed Susan & Sedum Autumn Joy just rot. I’ve taken them all out! I’m potting them all up to sell (I can’t throw a perennial away). I have also given up on the only plants I planted that just in case the deer wouldn’t eat: Limelights, Roses & Ninebark. They are now in containers on my raised deck. I just have to protect small tree trunks from their rubbing of ant and from nippling the new growth on my Windmill Palms. :) Trying more new things this year. LOVE finding you and hearing all your knowledge…what a lesson and time saver. THANK YOU!

This helps me so much. Even though I am in a different zone I can adapt your suggestions to my situation. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you, so interesting and helpful

I've been following your channel for about a year now and for some reason I missed it when it came out last year. This is by far hands down the best video on succession planting I have found so far. I'll be utilizing your advice a lot this year in 2023. Thank you.

Lots of great info...thanks!

Lovely video.

the best video I have ever watched!

Thank you so much! This video was great! So much awesome information!

brilliant!,amazing teacher.

I have been so inspired by you . Thanks you so much 🙏

What a wealth of good information!

thank you so much for this video!! so much useful info

This is the most helpful session ever! I am in NZ, a new seed sower and struggling to know what to sow and when 🎉

Thank you for this concise information packed video! I have been saving it for a time to take notes:)

Wonderful ....video very educational.

Thank you for this!!! I'll be doing succession planting and we are in Cincinnati zone 6b