How to Beautifully Arrange Flowers from Your Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Growing and picking flowers is an art. Ultimately, arranging flowers in a beautiful manner is the goal of cut flower gardening. Here, Rachel Nafis discusses the different ways you can design your own arrangements, from practical guidelines to purely aesthetic ones. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3t8gUUn Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/46qmUGl Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/46s9zO2 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/46ohR9A Learn More: 21 Flowers For The Perfect Fall Cut Flower Garden When To Plant Dahlias: The Best Time Of Year Connect With Rachel Nafis: Rachel Nafis is an urban flower farmer based in San Diego, California. Her urban farm, established in 2019, is composed of 8 different cutting gardens in her neighborhood, where she grows for a 30-member bouquet subscription, flower shops, and event florists. Instagram Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I don't know how to arrange maybe anything.
0:06.2	I'm not much of an aesthetic gardener, maybe a vegetable garden.
0:09.8	I know how to set up okay.
0:12.3	But when it comes to flowers, something I'm growing a lot more of lately, I do not arrange
0:17.7	them.
0:18.7	Well, I guess technically I do arrange them.
0:21.1	I'll put them in a vase.
0:22.3	But we do have Rachel Davis back on the show in urban flower farmer base here in San Diego
0:27.4	in my hometown.
0:29.3	We've been talking about growing flowers, how your farm's set up, Rachel.
0:32.8	But when it comes to cutting those flowers and making an arrangement, I'd imagine like
0:37.6	you're building those bouquets for your bouquets, CSA, right?
0:41.3	And are there like general principles that make a good arrangement because I have to confess?
0:45.4	Like when I see them, I can tell if one looks good.
0:48.3	I can't really tell if one looks bad unless it's like atrocious, right?
0:52.3	But I also can't tell why it looks good.
0:54.7	My brain just doesn't get it.
0:55.9	So I'd love to learn.
0:57.4	Yeah.
0:59.9	Well, so typically in floral design, we talk about focal flowers, filler, foliage, secondary
1:08.6	flowers and accent flowers.
1:11.8	But something just to kind of break that down from a gardener for a home gardener, you
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