Step By Step (see below for full details): 1. After blooms are spent, remove flower stalks all the way to foliage. Keep all leaves intact, continue to water plant when it become dry. 2. In early fall allow the plant to experience two early frosts outdoors, just enough for the leaves to die back. 3. Cut back foliage and remove bulb and root balls from the pot. 4. Once bulb and roots are fully dry, wrap individually in newspaper and store in a dark space in the garage or othe

Here at Petals we are committed to growing as many of our flowers locally, organically, and from seed. Seeds require three basic things...

In 2017 we decided to buy and build a greenhouse. In a series of follow-up posts I will detail the steps we took to prepare the site,...