At some point it would be great to see a “how to” on cutting different woodies, stem length you’re shooting for and how you bunch them (all bunches of 10?). I imagine there are significant differences from cut flowers.
I think you have found a really great niche here. I haven’t seen anyone else talking about details of woodies on gardening channels I watch. I’m learning a lot here, such as that if you cut back/harvest the smokebush early in the season, you get nicer looking foliage. Great to know!
Your welcome. I'm glad that you found it helpful. I do agree. I don't see many people talking about this...it took me a lot of research to find the information...and trail and error 🤣
Here in RI we have so many hydrangeas, esp native white varieties. They're so much hardier than the Endless Summer varieties which I've found to be the most gorgeous but the wimpiest in my yard.
Yes, the ones that bloom on old wood are so much more reliable here in MI as well. The endless summer varieties are so hit and miss here and are never as happy. I've tried...maybe I should do a whole hydrangea video...they are almost their own topic.
Great video with lots of info. I luv hydrangea and would luv to know where you get your hydrangeas wholesale or on lower cost as we are looking to plant a long row of them.
We (my husband and I) are loving the woodies series. Thank you for all the information! We have a lot of deer pressure here at our farm in NW Arkansas. How do you deal with deer in your area?
Oh, I am glad that you are enjoying the series. We have deer all around us but so far they have never eaten any of our flowers or gardens. The deer have a lot of other food I guess as we are surrounded by row crop fields. Our neighbors also have a dog outside so that helps.
@@abundantbloomsflowerfarmsounds like they have plenty to eat so not messing with your flowers! Sorry one more question I did not ask originally… what is the brand you have for your gothic high tunnel? We are thinking about getting one and have applied for an NRCS grant.
@@christineh948 no problem. It's from Nifty Hoops...so far it's been great. They are build for wind and snow load. We just got dumped with over 12 inches of snow over the course of a few days and I never had to bump off the snow as it sheds naturally because of the way it is built and it has a double layer of plastic with a fan between the two layers of plastic. Yes, I think the deer leave us alone bc they have lots of food....I feel sad for farmers where that is not the case.
@@abundantbloomsflowerfarm we have a herd of dear around here. I think the most we’ve counted at one time was 14. Thank you for the name! We live on a hill with no wind barrier, so it’s helpful to know it is built for wind and snow. We had a recent snow in Arkansas and some farmers had there tunnels collapse due to snow that they did not keep up with sweeping off the snow. We don’t want that to happen with that kind of investment.
Great info Ruth Ann! Can you talk about pricing at some point? I am also interested in knowing more about how you take orders? Sounds like you take advanced orders, are you using Rooted to do this? Or are the advanced sales outside of the app? Thank you!! super helpful.
Thank you. I do have several videos on how I actually sell the flowers. Check out my playlist on selling flowers to florists...in the title of one it says something about pricing too.
❤️❤️❤️. I am so excited for mine to come! My order got messed up and I kinda freaked out that I was not going to get them...but they fixed it...so we are all good.
@ They reduced my order of those and I’m bummed about it! Also your ninebark results are wildly different from my year 1! I spring planted though and got like no useable cuts in year 1 and clearly your fall planting made such a difference! My year 1 smokebush results are similar to yours so now I’m excited to see my year 2 smokebush!!
Yeah...that fall planting makes a big difference. I have fall planted snowberries and spring planted them and the results were very different (like I said in the video 🤣)
Yesss I also didn’t really harvest off my spring planted snowberry! My issue is we are still too hot in fall here to get them planted successfully! I tried a fall planting of hydrangeas this last fall and lots of loss 😳
This is so great info since I need to plant intermittent hedgerows in my field due to the crazy wind we get here. Thank you so much for your amazing information on these woodys. I really fell in love with using them last season in mixed bouquets. I have a hydrangea on our property we are selling that I used last season for bouquets and this specific one out of the three I have I LOVE BUT I don't know what variety it is and I tried to propagate it from cuttings and it didn't go well because it was late in the season. I am hoping to get some cuttings that propagate before we sell the house as it is way to huge to dig up and bring with us to our new property.
Yes! Hydrangeas as really great. I am excited for mine to continue to mature. My mature ones are amazing. There are so many great varieties out there. Last summer another local grower had this star hydrangea that I had never even seen before. It was incredible! They are just such a cool plants. I hope you can take cuttings. I have thought of doing that but in the spring I always get crazy and don't get it done.
I do not cut up the woody stems...but some of my florists strip off the bark with a knife at the tip and they say they have no problems with them hydrating. I use chrysal hydrator in the water when I harvest most woodies.
Thank you for this great insight. I wondered if the shrubs would benefit from a preventive insecticide treatment, and if yes, what would it be. Also, I have a question, regarding the hydrator you use. What brand do you recommend? Could you explain more about this treatment? Finally, do you have experience with Cytisus? It blooms around Mother's day, I saw it in bouquets but I have no experience whatsoever. Thank you again for your video and useful tips.
I have only sprayed by snowberries with BT to prevent the caterpillars...and yes it helped a lot. I use the Professional 1 hydrator from Chrysal. I just use it according to the instructions. I have no experience with Cytisus...I've acutely never heard to that. Sorry. 🤣
Coral Berry is the one from spring Meadow that I growing and then all the snowberry varieties that Farmer Bailey has available. I think it's more the older snowberry varieties that do that...and Farmer Bailey is marketing for cut flower growers...so those varieties are also really good. Any others I would have to do the research on the specific variety.
This was all amazing! Thanks for sharing. For your glitters and glows viburnum is that a variety you like for flowers or for berries? Do you have any varieties you recommend specifically for flowers?
The Glitters and Glows is primarily for the blue berries they produce in the fall...but I can also be cut for the spring flower. I know a lot of people like a snowball viburnum in early spring. The nice thing with the flowers is that they are ready early...for me I have a variety (I don't know the name), but the flowers bloom early on the heels of the tulips...so it's so nice. I am trying to expand my viburnum for early spring. My next video will be the expansion that I planted in 2024 and I added A LOT of viburnum and will get into all those specific varieties in that video.
@ awesome! Excited to hear more. I’ve really been enjoying your videos. I’ve been pondering if viburnum could be well suited close to Mother’s Day in my area so I’m especially looking forward to more on that one. Also the hoop house has been a nice back drop for the recent ones.
@@torimarie7659 Yes, I actually just recorded my next video...and I talk specifically about viburnum and Mother's Day blooms...of course depends on your climate..but I am aiming for Mother's Day viburnum as well!
I have been looking for a productive green ninebark, and I have Tiny Wine, but it's not green. Could you verify that the green one you have is Tiny Wine? On spring Meadows it shows it as a dark leaf as well. Edit: found it under tiny wine gold, and it's no longer being sold 😢
not a flower farmer so limited knowledge, when you say you put stems immediately in a hydrator what are you referring to? is this a place or a solution?
Keep doing what you are doing! What a blessing! I am learning so much!!
Oh thank you! That is so encouraging! More to come!
I love your informative videos! Keep them coming ❤
❤️ Working on more right now!
At some point it would be great to see a “how to” on cutting different woodies, stem length you’re shooting for and how you bunch them (all bunches of 10?). I imagine there are significant differences from cut flowers.
Yes, I will add that to the list of questions. Thanks for the feedback.
In Sweden the name of Smoke bush is "wig bush" since the blooms look like big curly hair 🙂
Oh that is interesting...yes, I can totally see that. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much for this. One of the most useful & informative videos I have watched on the topic of flower farming.
Wow! That really means a lot to me. Thank you. I am glad you found it helpful.
Fantastic advice - really very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Really helpful video. Thank you!
Your Welcome. Thanks for watching!
I think you have found a really great niche here. I haven’t seen anyone else talking about details of woodies on gardening channels I watch. I’m learning a lot here, such as that if you cut back/harvest the smokebush early in the season, you get nicer looking foliage. Great to know!
Your welcome. I'm glad that you found it helpful. I do agree. I don't see many people talking about this...it took me a lot of research to find the information...and trail and error 🤣
Yes! Everyone just refers you to Dave Dowling 😅
This is the best video Ive come across in a long time, thank you!!!
Oh Thank you! That is so kind and encouraging.
Looking forward to your next video!! You do an awesome job at explaining things!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I’m obsessed with this channel! Such great information.
I'm glad that you found it so helpful. Thanks for watching.
Here in RI we have so many hydrangeas, esp native white varieties. They're so much hardier than the Endless Summer varieties which I've found to be the most gorgeous but the wimpiest in my yard.
Yes, the ones that bloom on old wood are so much more reliable here in MI as well. The endless summer varieties are so hit and miss here and are never as happy. I've tried...maybe I should do a whole hydrangea video...they are almost their own topic.
Would luv to hear series on hydrangea
Do you have Snowball Viburnum? Your details are fabulous! Thanks for all your hard winter work!
I planted some in by 2024 planting...that video is coming next.
Great information and love your presentation!!!!!!
Another great video! What brand do you use for a hydrator?
I use the hydrator solution from Chrysal. I do also talk about hydrator in my video on how to achieve high quality for cut flowers.
Great info, thanks for sharing! Congrats on 1k subs! 🎉
Awww! Thank you!
Great video with lots of info.
I luv hydrangea and would luv to know where you get your hydrangeas wholesale or on lower cost as we are looking to plant a long row of them.
I get them from Spring Meadow Nursery.
We (my husband and I) are loving the woodies series. Thank you for all the information! We have a lot of deer pressure here at our farm in NW Arkansas. How do you deal with deer in your area?
Oh, I am glad that you are enjoying the series. We have deer all around us but so far they have never eaten any of our flowers or gardens. The deer have a lot of other food I guess as we are surrounded by row crop fields. Our neighbors also have a dog outside so that helps.
@@abundantbloomsflowerfarmsounds like they have plenty to eat so not messing with your flowers! Sorry one more question I did not ask originally… what is the brand you have for your gothic high tunnel? We are thinking about getting one and have applied for an NRCS grant.
@@christineh948 no problem. It's from Nifty Hoops...so far it's been great. They are build for wind and snow load. We just got dumped with over 12 inches of snow over the course of a few days and I never had to bump off the snow as it sheds naturally because of the way it is built and it has a double layer of plastic with a fan between the two layers of plastic.
Yes, I think the deer leave us alone bc they have lots of food....I feel sad for farmers where that is not the case.
@@abundantbloomsflowerfarm we have a herd of dear around here. I think the most we’ve counted at one time was 14.
Thank you for the name! We live on a hill with no wind barrier, so it’s helpful to know it is built for wind and snow.
We had a recent snow in Arkansas and some farmers had there tunnels collapse due to snow that they did not keep up with sweeping off the snow. We don’t want that to happen with that kind of investment.
Great information! Thank-you for sharing.
Could you do a video or talk about how exactly you harvest with hudrator?
Yes, I will add that to the questions. I'm glad that you found it helpful.
@ thank-you!
I def struggle with harvesting woody shrubs.
Yeah 1000!! Great, great video... your channel is going to be big!! 😊
Thank you! That is so sweet of you to say!
Great info Ruth Ann! Can you talk about pricing at some point? I am also interested in knowing more about how you take orders? Sounds like you take advanced orders, are you using Rooted to do this? Or are the advanced sales outside of the app? Thank you!! super helpful.
Thank you. I do have several videos on how I actually sell the flowers. Check out my playlist on selling flowers to florists...in the title of one it says something about pricing too.
Lots of great info. Thanks for sharing. Love the art work from your daughter.
Thank you. ❤️ The artwork is now in the hoop house safe and sound.
Excellent content, thank you!
I'm glad you found it helpful!
LOVE! Such good info! I gotta get some woodies planted.
YES! Plant them now....cut on them for decades....well...most of them...usually. But they are a great investment.
I’m getting the new smokebush too and I’m so excited about it!!
❤️❤️❤️. I am so excited for mine to come! My order got messed up and I kinda freaked out that I was not going to get them...but they fixed it...so we are all good.
@ They reduced my order of those and I’m bummed about it! Also your ninebark results are wildly different from my year 1! I spring planted though and got like no useable cuts in year 1 and clearly your fall planting made such a difference! My year 1 smokebush results are similar to yours so now I’m excited to see my year 2 smokebush!!
Yeah...that fall planting makes a big difference. I have fall planted snowberries and spring planted them and the results were very different (like I said in the video 🤣)
Yesss I also didn’t really harvest off my spring planted snowberry! My issue is we are still too hot in fall here to get them planted successfully! I tried a fall planting of hydrangeas this last fall and lots of loss 😳
@@abundantbloomsflowerfarm What is the variety name of the Smoke bush blooming on new wood?
Yea! You have over 1000 subscribers! Congratulations!
Thank you! That is so sweet of you! YES!!! I am excited. Thanks for watching and celebrating with me.
These are really helpful. Thanks!
Your Welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This is so great info since I need to plant intermittent hedgerows in my field due to the crazy wind we get here. Thank you so much for your amazing information on these woodys. I really fell in love with using them last season in mixed bouquets. I have a hydrangea on our property we are selling that I used last season for bouquets and this specific one out of the three I have I LOVE BUT I don't know what variety it is and I tried to propagate it from cuttings and it didn't go well because it was late in the season. I am hoping to get some cuttings that propagate before we sell the house as it is way to huge to dig up and bring with us to our new property.
Yes! Hydrangeas as really great. I am excited for mine to continue to mature. My mature ones are amazing. There are so many great varieties out there. Last summer another local grower had this star hydrangea that I had never even seen before. It was incredible! They are just such a cool plants. I hope you can take cuttings. I have thought of doing that but in the spring I always get crazy and don't get it done.
do you cut into the woody stems to get them to hydrate better? and what kind of hydrator are you using?
I do not cut up the woody stems...but some of my florists strip off the bark with a knife at the tip and they say they have no problems with them hydrating. I use chrysal hydrator in the water when I harvest most woodies.
Thank you for this great insight. I wondered if the shrubs would benefit from a preventive insecticide treatment, and if yes, what would it be. Also, I have a question, regarding the hydrator you use. What brand do you recommend? Could you explain more about this treatment? Finally, do you have experience with Cytisus? It blooms around Mother's day, I saw it in bouquets but I have no experience whatsoever. Thank you again for your video and useful tips.
I have only sprayed by snowberries with BT to prevent the caterpillars...and yes it helped a lot. I use the Professional 1 hydrator from Chrysal. I just use it according to the instructions. I have no experience with Cytisus...I've acutely never heard to that. Sorry. 🤣
@@abundantbloomsflowerfarm Thank you so much:-) for Cytisus small info: www.nps.gov/articles/scotch-broom.htm
Shameless plug for hubby's company 😏
Look at you grow ❤
@@ladetrucker haha….true! I mean they give us such great stuff!
Love this! Such good info. Where did you get your high tunnel from. We are putting one up in the spring.
Thank you. The tunnel is from Nifty Hoops...they were great...built for northern snow and wind.
@@abundantbloomsflowerfarm Thank you!
Can you give a list of snowberry varieties that do not get the black spots?
Coral Berry is the one from spring Meadow that I growing and then all the snowberry varieties that Farmer Bailey has available. I think it's more the older snowberry varieties that do that...and Farmer Bailey is marketing for cut flower growers...so those varieties are also really good. Any others I would have to do the research on the specific variety.
What is the name of the smoke bush variety that flowers on first year wood?🙂
It's called Magical Red Torch as far as I know it's only available from Farmer Bailey (but they are currently sold out)
This was all amazing! Thanks for sharing.
For your glitters and glows viburnum is that a variety you like for flowers or for berries? Do you have any varieties you recommend specifically for flowers?
The Glitters and Glows is primarily for the blue berries they produce in the fall...but I can also be cut for the spring flower. I know a lot of people like a snowball viburnum in early spring. The nice thing with the flowers is that they are ready early...for me I have a variety (I don't know the name), but the flowers bloom early on the heels of the tulips...so it's so nice. I am trying to expand my viburnum for early spring. My next video will be the expansion that I planted in 2024 and I added A LOT of viburnum and will get into all those specific varieties in that video.
@ awesome! Excited to hear more. I’ve really been enjoying your videos. I’ve been pondering if viburnum could be well suited close to Mother’s Day in my area so I’m especially looking forward to more on that one. Also the hoop house has been a nice back drop for the recent ones.
@@torimarie7659 Yes, I actually just recorded my next video...and I talk specifically about viburnum and Mother's Day blooms...of course depends on your climate..but I am aiming for Mother's Day viburnum as well!
I have been looking for a productive green ninebark, and I have Tiny Wine, but it's not green. Could you verify that the green one you have is Tiny Wine? On spring Meadows it shows it as a dark leaf as well.
Edit: found it under tiny wine gold, and it's no longer being sold 😢
YES! It's Tiny Wine GOLD and they don't sell it any more. I wish they did I would have bought more. 🥲
not a flower farmer so limited knowledge, when you say you put stems immediately in a hydrator what are you referring to? is this a place or a solution?
Great questions. Yes, it is a post-harvest care solution that flower farmers use in the water for the buckets that you harvest into.