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4 Reasons Why Growing your own flowers is better than buying
By admin | February 7, 2008
1)Price. -Â The price of a few packets of seeds and a little water, fertilizer, and sometimes pesticide are the only costs for gardeners. Even if you add the value of your labor, the result cost is a savings over store-bought bouquets.
2) Availability. For one reason or another, not all varieties of flowers that do well as cut specimens can be found in local flower shops. Your selection of blossoms for arrangements can be increased tremendously by growing your own.
3) Freshness - You just can’t get a fresher product than a flower cut from your own backyard. If conditioned correctly, the flowers you grow for yourself have the potential of lasting much longer than those supplied by a florist.
4) Design Control - By growing cut flowers, you have the opportunity to design arrangements without the constraints of high cost or limited availability. You can use leaves from landscape plants for foliage to fill in arrangements. By combining home-grown varieties with exotics from a flower shop, you can come up with unlimited possibilities.
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