by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jan 3, 2024 | Blog, Cool Flowers, Lisa Live
This series is brought to you by TheGardenersWorkshop.com. Making it possible for flower lovers at all levels to grow and enjoy flowers and to build businesses based on flowers! Cool-Season Flower Chronicle Videos Below ⇓  ⇓  ⇓  ⇓ Listen to each week’s...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Feb 6, 2021 | Podcast
My first episode y’all!!! As I am aligning my thoughts to share with you, I thought I would take you along as my season is already unfolding here. Do you peek under the row covers? I find it to be the scariest thing this farmer can do in mid-winter. Links to my...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Feb 29, 2020 | Cool Flowers
Returning home from travel to my Cool Flowers garden is almost as good as reuniting with Stevie and Tuc. The bupleurum plants pictured are just one of many cool-season hardy annuals that are patiently sitting and waiting for their time to shine in my spring garden....
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jan 9, 2020 | Cool Flowers
I stumbled into learning about cool-season hardy annual flowers a couple of decades ago. My interest had been sparked by flower farming and I wanted to jump in with both feet, but we were heading into winter, what now? While I knew practically nothing about farming at...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Sep 10, 2019 | Cool Flowers
Who are these flowers? The cool-season hardy annuals that light spring on fire and are some of my favorites. I’m talking about some of the better known flowers like bachelor buttons, poppies, and larkspur along with some unknowns like bupleurum and the famous but what...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Aug 3, 2019 | Lisa Live
Revisiting the Cool Flowers concept. Cool-season growing is difficult to wrap our heads around, but once you get it— you will love cool-season gardening! Pretty much no matter where you live you can plant cool-season hardy annuals, we all may just plant them at...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jul 27, 2019 | Lisa Live
Reviewing when to plant cool-season hardy annuals. Once you find the sweet time of planting this group of annuals you will come to love and understand them more. Purchase Cool Flowers here
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | May 4, 2019 | Happening on a Flower Farm with Lisa Mason Ziegler, Lisa Live
This week on Lisa Live, I’m sharing my blunder with Cool Flowers this season. This error resulted in disease spreading and puny plants. What’s pulling me through this flower free spring? Summer is coming!!! Founder of The Gardener’s Workshop and Flower Farming School...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Apr 6, 2019 | Lisa Live
This week on Lisa Live! having a look at the first beds made of the 2019 season and visiting the baby transplant room. Update on the Cool Flowers garden. Founder of The Gardener’s Workshop and Flower Farming School Online . Author of Vegetables Love Flowers, Cool...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Mar 28, 2019 | Organic Gardening
Floating Row covers can prevent so many problems in the garden, I’m not sure if I would still be gardening if it wasn’t for them. They help prevent pest damage, protect plants from the elements and so much more. I am never caught without row covers on...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Feb 2, 2019 | Lisa Live
Talking hydrangea pruning tips, hellebores, and a baby plant room visit for the surprise I found! Plus how I sprout bupleurum. Lisa Mason Ziegler, award-winning author of Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers, owner of The Gardener’s Workshop, Flower Farming School...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jan 20, 2019 | Lisa Live
Discussing the cold weather that is coming, what’s going on in the transplant room, and what I cut for church flowers tomorrow. 
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Oct 10, 2018 | Fall/Winter Gardening
Fall gardening offers unexpected gifts. It is like a savings account or investment, do the work today and reap the bounty later. While spring and summer gardening have their own benefits–fall is invigorating for me. Temperatures have cooled off, leaves are...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Mar 1, 2017 | Organic Gardening
I am often asked how I use row covers on my farm. Below are the reasons to use, how to use, and when to remove. In all installation during warm-to-hot weather hoops are recommended to create more air space under the cover. I use the lightweight floating row cover...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jan 29, 2017 | Fall/Winter Gardening
A winter morning walk in my garden reveals so much. As I stroll, I find myself stopping, standing, and watching more than walking. This chilly morning there is no wind, so much is going on. To the naked eye my place looks pretty barren compared to summer when it is...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jun 26, 2016 | Cool Flowers
Have the spring garden of your dreams! View Anytime! Want the study as soon as it is posted? Sign up to have it emailed to you each week! Join me each Friday for 10 weeks (one week for each chapter) of digging in deeper on how to grow and enjoy the most coveted spring...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jan 17, 2016 | Fall/Winter Gardening
I always feel like I can’t count on January. I just never know what to expect and this year is proving to be no different. We have gone from 70 degrees the end of December straight to sleet, snow and ice in January. Its tough enough to know what to wear each...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Nov 18, 2015 | Cut Flower Gardening
Sweet Peas Royal Mix Fragrant sweet peas are undoubtedly the one flower I have grown over the years that creates a stir in folks like no other. Memories come to the surface with just a lift to the nose, ah, the sweet scent of days gone by. Perhaps it was grandma or...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Nov 18, 2015 | Fall/Winter Gardening
Leaf Week 2015 is on! November is always a good month on the farm for me. While it brings the end to the season, it also is full of planning and planting for spring. I am harvesting the bounty of fall, planting for spring and thinking of next summer. There is no...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | May 31, 2015 | Events
As spring is rapidly moving into summer, I am always surprised by the variety of flowers we grow. To think we can have sweet peas and zinnias at the same time seems crazy– but it’s true. Each weekly harvest this time of year changes so much. It seems like...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Mar 27, 2015 | Cool Flowers
 Our March hardy annual garden. This is the moment I relish in with my close connection to our farm and her seasons. It’s coming on the end of March and it has been a roller coaster ride month for sure—a few days in the high 60’s and even a 70 degree day, along with...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Mar 6, 2015 | Cool Flowers
While many of us (me) are wringing our hands over all the cold, snowy, icy weather—cool flowers are proving to be the cool customers that I’ve come to know and love. They survive winter in spite of my doubts—even after 18 years of witnessing their amazing...
