"**■*— fxmi ’ smm - m 24 ' 1893 Everything You Need To Know
S i To A Cut Flower Business
’ll FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. tions: How to get into the cut flow- collecting flowers and greenery
***" l411 1 with 1116 cut flower business gel- er business, wWhat to grow that’s from the wild.
JM I I ting bigger every year, many gar- saleable, where to sell what you The book also includes intcr-
I deners are curious about how to grow. views with flower growers, buy
[ market homegrown flowers. Detailed planes are offered for ers, and sellers in three different
i j | A newly-released book written starting a supermarket bouquet states. These include Saturday
| | for small or beginning cut-flower business, which incules selling, Market flowers sellers to interna
|| market gardeners has 200 pages pricing, display, equipment, tional flower brokers, from U-pick
r I i packed with information. “Flow- harvest and conditioning tech- flower farms to one grower who
I ers For Sale” answers the ques- niques, business and tax details, makes $650,000 on less than an
I acre of flower production.
Mi 11 Included is an extensive listing
J y -j/ of the varieties of perennials,
nnnnnaaa| _ a| _ |: - | * i-jir. ■ --- -£ annuals, bulbs, tubers, trees, vines,
¥ . , . □□□□□□□□□□oot ITV I I shrubs and herbs that can be used
Little surprises dropping into tics, Butch strolls along the tops of If i“ " 1 * 1 successfully in growing flowers
our everyday lives are the sprink- their pen gates. And. when r m li j /T\\ 1 7T? T> C commercially,
les on the ice-cream-cone of life, washing bottles at the sink, Butch fJ H I W The author Lee Sturdivant
Some provide momentary hops up on a bucket of lime kept 1/ A T W writes from first-hand experience,
flashes of joy and memories to be handy for disinfecring pens and CAT T* She lives on a I2oxlBo-fecl town
savored- a bouquet of dandelions paws my knee if I haven’t yet fed |H ff I|c /X I H lot, where she started a cut flower
lovingly offered in die chubby him and his fe iine pals their T V/1V KJI IM JM J business a few years ago. Sturdiv
hands of a beloved child, a whiff of breakfast. ant writes that ' on a typica i June
mint stirred while walking in the Butch accompanies us to the day> she can cut and sdl 2 0 blue
meadow, a falling star some spe- ponds, to the garden and hangs Ornwino- anil Mfli-Wfiiitr delphiniums for $2O. 10 mixed
cial thoughtfulness of a friend. around the shop with whoever s \if growing ana IVlarKeting bouquets for $4O, 40 stems Sweet
Other surprises physically 1m- WO rking there, often perching him- p llt Flnw<»rc William for $7, and two wedding
ger for longer periods of time- the se if high up on a tractor seat to \*UX F IOWCFS bouquets for $35.
Mother’s Day climbing rosebush observe the proceedings-and the _ , _ That is more than $lOO worth of
now eight-feet tall and growing, an sparrows in the rafters. Backyard to flowers a day from a small lot. If
unexpected wax-job for the car, Late one evening last week, a , Small Acreage trends continue, the cut flower
the geese that accept us as neigh- newborn bull calf still in the calv- , & business will gel even more profit
bors during their six-month annual , ng area 0 f the old bank bam > 1L able. People are willing to pay
visit at the pond, a cluster of red needed to be fed a bottle of fresh, more for flowers than for fresh
tulips you forgot you planted last warm milk. I crawled through the fruit and vegetables.
fall - , gates, roused the baby from his maMEYou should leam how to arrange
And then there s Butch. snoozing spot in a pile of soft hay, \ flowers to increase appeal. It is of
Butch nearly got stepped on the and began feeding him supper. rellßWpgßiprime importance to protect cut
first time we met. I was high- Suddenly, a loud cat scream- flowers from premature willing,
tailing it around the comer of the and u was a scream- split the quiet All the little details to set up a pro
garage, late for morning calf feed- of the barn at dusk. Tomcat fight, I / f m fitable business and the pitfalls to
samc H co^L ha a 8 fi , gurcd- Unt ‘! movemcnt sevcral / W avoid are given in the 200-pagc
showed up on farm Something was struggling in the mBUBIBHBBHK I book is written in an cas>-
from good question He s never midd i e of a pile of ralher wel man . to-read slylc from a first . pc rson
shared that secret of his past; we urc between two rows of old stalls. perspective,
suspect some cowardly pet owner Something furry and darkish- To order a copy of “Flowers For
who couldn l bother spaying their co i ored an d very unhappy. Sale,” send $14.95 plus $1 for
cat dropped off this donation. Butch. Stuck in a cat’s version postage to San Juan Naturals, PO
When I reached down to pick us 0 f q U i c ksand. \'l' * >' Box M 2 s, Friday Harbor, WA
ihis fcw-ounce, mewing, bundle of The ca )f g ot a b o ulc break while 98250.
striped dark tiger kitten, he j climbed over another gale and
snuggled against my neck. Rubbed retrieved one very messy, very . ___ tf / closfd Sundays nfw vfab
my check. And promptly stole my smelly, VERY irritated cat. TOWN AND COUNTRY EASTER MONDAY, ASCENSION DAY,
hcarl - t( Which, in his haste to flee this pre- POURED WALLS WHIT MONDAY, OCT. 11, THANKSGIVING,
Butch is a ‘people cal; he dicament, left me with a scratched sr-W nii.iiiiif CHRISTMAS»DECEMBER 26m
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