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Vegetables Love Flowers – Purchase a book here.
Watch Lisa’s introduction video!
Learn how to have an organic garden where good bugs eat bad bugs, pollinators are abundant and the beautiful bouquet on the table came from your garden! Lisa tells all as she shares why flowers are the missing piece in many gardens–that flowers complete the circle of life to growing an organic garden. Flowers attract pollinators, beneficial insects and other good creatures. Read more…
Vegetables Love Flowers – Author & Photographer
Lisa Mason Ziegler the author is joined by Bob Schamerhorn, the award winning nature photographer of Vegetables Love Flowers. Lisa shares the message of the book — grow a cutting garden and nature’s most powerful forces will come and set-up housekeeping in the garden. Bob tells how he captured it all and brought it to life on the pages of the book. Read more…
Grow Cut-Flowers for Profit 
Learn the ins and outs of field grown cut-flowers for profit from veteran flower farmer Lisa Mason Ziegler. She discusses tips for getting started, who you can sell to, what to grow and how to sell cut-flowers commercially. Flower farming can become a part of your homestead or your urban home with little investment. Ziegler’s urban 1-1/4 acre cutting gardens produce thousands of stems each week in season.
A Spring-to-Fall Cutting Garden 
You will go home with the knowledge to have non-stop fresh cut-flowers from spring until frost from your own garden. Lisa will share what to plant, how-to manage, and harvesting a small home cutting garden that will supply a weekly abundance of long-stemmed beautiful cut flowers all season.
Growing Great Spring Flowers
Lisa shares her experiences growing hardy annual flowers such as snapdragons, sweet peas, bells of Ireland, pansies and many other spring beauties. Revisiting cool-season gardening, a common practice in days gone by, will change spring in the garden forever. Lisa’s book Cool Flowers was based on this popular program. Read More…
Growing your own Summer Bouquets
Learn how to have a small designated flower bed (3’ x 10’) as a cutting garden for a season full of gorgeous cut flowers. Following Lisa’s recommendations your garden will produce a bounty of cut flowers to fill your home and enough to share with friends. Lisa’s book The Easy Cut-Flower Garden was based on this popular program. Read More…
From the Ground Up
Learn how to start seeds and your garden soil organically. Program includes how to plant seeds directly in the garden and starting indoors using the English method soil blocking. Lisa reveals the steps she follows to prepare the garden for abundant growth and low-maintenance. Read More…
Restoring Pollinators: Grow Organic
Learn why every vegetable garden and landscape must include flowers and eliminate chemical use to attract and maintain pollinators and other beneficial insects. Providing a place for them to live, raise babies and to eat will transform the garden and benefit the environment. Read More…
Robyn Pickeral says
January 28, 2019 at 12:00 pmI am looking for a speaker for our Farmington Garden Club meeting on March 19@5:00. Our topic is spring flowers with an emphasis on tulips. I would like to know if you are available and if so what would your fee be. I look forward to hearing from you.
Lisa says
January 28, 2019 at 8:19 pmHi Robyn, Thanks so much for thinking of me for a program but I committed through the fall of 2020. Best of spring to you.
Lisa
Ann McCaskey says
September 29, 2017 at 10:18 amJust saw a couple of your presentations at Mother Earth News fair at Seven Springs. I wasn’t planning to attend Vegetables Love Flowers, but I did and learned a lot! The presentation was interesting and informative, I hope to see you there next year!
Martha Moore says
March 21, 2017 at 1:07 pmLisa it is Martha Moore at The Tuckahoe Garden Club of Richmond, Virginia. I was wondering if you might be able to do a spring program for us in March 21, 2018 on a “Spring to Fall cutting garden”with the pop us shop in tow. The other option might be April 18, but I need to confirm when Historic Garden Week is. You know we have many who are already devoted to your zinnia seeds from 2014 when you came to pour plant sale, but wanted to give some good growing tips to some of our new novice gardeners, and old seasoned gardeners as well. What are your speaking fees? Please advise and let me know if you might be able to come. We would love to have you!!!
We would schedule your meeting where there is good av unless you don’t need it.
Lisa says
March 24, 2017 at 10:26 amHi Martha,
I sent you an email–thanks!