So in my opinion, the secret to being everybody's favorite neighbor or favorite friend is always

having the opportunity to show up with a handful of blooms at the ready. And the way you do that

is you have a cut flower garden in your yard that you can easily snip a few blooms and make

someone's day with. So today, I went back into the archives for the Best of

Growing Joy series where we're bringing back old episodes and giving them new life. And I'm bringing

you a conversation with a flower farmer and friend of mine, Brooklyn, of Blooming Hill Farms.

She's a Denver-based urban flower farmer and founder of the Cool Choice Plant Studio for Kids.

And in this conversation, we break down cut flower gardening for beginners.

We're talking easy annuals, faithful perennials, pinching, deadheading, and how to really

confidently have a cut flower garden this year with no fear, right? Because it's all about

experimenting and

obviously growing joy. So without further ado, here's Brooklyn.

Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for

plants successfully,

but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more joy in our lives by doing so.

I'm Maria, former plant killer turned happy plant lady, author of Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness, speaker, podcaster, and most importantly, your new best plant friend.

On Growing Joy with plants,

you'll find conversations about house plant care, gardening tutorials, and wellness through the lens of plants. Plant care is self-care on growing joy. I'm so excited for this conversation.

I'm excited too.

It's been a little bit of a long time coming, but it's the right time.

You're one of my new plant friends that I met on Clubhouse and who I want to be when I grew up because you're a cut floor farmer.

And the more that I think about garden planning, the more I get obsessed with flowers.

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