Floret Farm's Bloom to Seed: Growing, Harvesting, and Saving Seeds for Beautiful Flowers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781797247090)

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Floret Farm's Bloom to Seed: Growing, Harvesting, and Saving Seeds for Beautiful Flowers

$37.50

Floret Farm's Bloom to Seed: Growing, Harvesting, and Saving Seeds for Beautiful Flowers

$37.50
Format: Hardcover
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Grow, harvest, and save your own flower seeds with this beautifully photographed, expert guide from bestselling author and Floret Farm founder Erin Benzakein.

Discover the rewarding art of flower seed saving with this comprehensive guide from a world-renowned flower farmer.

Drawing on years of hands-on experience, extensive trialing, and careful research at her celebrated flower farm, Erin Benzakein shares everything gardeners need to know to successfully grow, harvest, collect, clean, and store flower seeds for future seasons. Whether you're tending a cutting garden, cultivating a small flower farm, or simply saving seeds from a backyard patch, this essential reference makes the process approachable, achievable, and deeply inspiring.

  • Filled with hundreds of lush photographs and step-by-step instructional images.
  • Guides readers through every stage of the seed-saving process--from selecting plants and harvesting at the proper stage to drying, threshing, cleaning, and long-term storage.
  • Detailed growing and seed-saving profiles for 50 beloved flower varieties, including dahlias, sweet peas, zinnias, and many more.
  • Practical guidance for gardeners of every skill level.
Both an indispensable gardening resource and a celebration of the beauty and resilience of flowers, this stunning volume encourages readers to deepen their connection to the natural world while learning the timeless, empowering skill of saving seeds.

  • FROM A TRUSTED FLOWER-GROWING AUTHORITY: Written by bestselling author and Floret Farm founder Erin Benzakein, one of the world's most influential voices in flower farming and seed saving.
  • THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO FLOWER SEED SAVING: Comprehensive, approachable instruction covering growing, harvesting, drying, threshing, cleaning, and storing seeds. Features detailed how-to photography and step-by-step guidance.
  • 50 FLOWER VARIETIES COVERED: Includes in-depth seed-saving profiles for popular flowers such as dahlias, sweet peas, zinnias, and more.
  • STUNNINGLY PHOTOGRAPHED: Filled with hundreds of lush photographs showcasing flowers, gardens, tools, techniques, and the beauty of seed in Floret Farm's signature style.
  • INCREDIBLE VALUE: Seed saving is increasingly important for gardeners interested in sustainability, biodiversity, self-sufficiency, community building, and the local flower movement. This guide brings Erin Benzakein's sought-after techniques and expertise to a wide audience in an accessible format.
  • PERFECT GIFT FOR GARDENERS & FLOWER LOVERS: An inspiring gift for home gardeners, flower farmers, flower enthusiasts, florists, seed savers, and fans of Floret, Erin Benzakein, and her books, including Cut Flower Garden, A Year in Flowers, and Discovering Dahlias.


Author: Erin Benzakein
ISBN-10: 1797247093
ISBN-13: 9781797247090
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2027
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
By Erin Benzakein
By Erin Benzakein
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Celebrated flower farmer Erin Benzakein is a world-renowned expert on growing and arranging seasonal flowers. She is the author of Floret Farm's Discovering Dahlias, the New York Times bestseller Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers, and Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden, winner of the American Horticultural Society Book Award. Her work has been featured across notable publications, including Martha Stewart Living, Better Homes & Gardens, Sunset Magazine, the New York Times, Magnolia Journal, and Country Living. She is the executive producer of Growing Floret, an Emmy-nominated documentary television series about the farm, which debuted on the Magnolia Network in 2021. She lives and farms in Mount Vernon, Washington, with her husband, Chris.

Chris Benzakein is the photographer behind the vibrant images of Floret Farm's Discovering Dahlias and Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers. He is continually documenting the brilliant beauty of the farm's flowers through his camera lens. Chris has filmed all of Floret's educational programs and contributed to the filming of the second season of Growing Floret, which received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lifestyle Program. Chris lives in Mount Vernon, Washington, where he farms alongside his wife, Erin, and uses his background as a mechanic and helicopter pilot to help manage the day-to-day operations on the farm.

Eric Budzynski is Floret's seed specialist and heads up all aspects of seed production on the farm, including roguing, harvesting, and expertly cleaning everything that comes in from the field. Prior to his work with flower seeds, Eric spent more than ten years growing vegetable seed on organic farms in the Pacific Northwest. He lives in Anacortes, Washington, with his partner and two children.

Susan Brown is a copywriter and editor at Floret and lends her expertise to a wide range of writing projects, both in print and online. Before joining the team, Susan worked as a freelance editor for academically focused publishers such as Oxford University Press, where she copyedited nearly 500 books. She lives in San Diego, California, with her husband.

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