In the Garden with Flower Hill Farm

Welcome back to In the Garden with Flower Hill Farm, where we dig into the beauty, rhythms, and practical magic of growing a garden you love. Join Nicole from Flower Hill Farm for thoughtful conversations, seasonal inspiration, and real-world gardening wisdom. Powered by Botanical Interests, your trusted source for high-quality seeds and gardening know-how.Whether you are planning your next harvest or just want to enjoy the beauty of your garden, this show is your invitation to grow with intention.

In this episode, Nicole talks small-scale flower farming with Galena Berkompas, owner of Micro Flower Farm in Vancouver, Washington. Galena shares how post-partum depression led her to jump headfirst into a career growing flowers. 

Together, Galena and Nicole share the best annual and perennial flowers and foliage to focus on for beautiful cut arrangements with a small footprint. They talk about how easy it is to fall in love with dahlias, and the thousands that Galena grows on her farm! Curious about breeding your own dahlias? Galena details the process of hybridizing dahlias to create new, exciting varieties. To cap it off, Nicole and Galena reminisce about their recent flower-themed trip to Europe. 

If you want to know how to grow a bounty of flowers in a small space, are interested in breeding your own varieties, or want to hear about flower farming as a career, this is the episode for you!  

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🌼 Follow Our GuestsGalena BerkompasWebsite: https://microflowerfarm.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@microflowerfarm

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/microflowerfarm/

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🌸 Seed of the Day: Pansies and Violas

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Welcome back to In the Garden with Flower Hill Farm, where we dig into the beauty, rhythms, and practical magic of growing a garden you love. Join Nicole from Flower Hill Farm for thoughtful conversations, seasonal inspiration, and real-world gardening wisdom. Powered by Botanical Interests, your trusted source for high-quality seeds and gardening know-how.Whether you are planning your next harvest or just want to enjoy the beauty of your garden, this show is your invitation to grow with intention.In this episode, Nicole spends time with Brie Arthur, a.k.a. the Plant Lady. Brie’s books, The Foodscape Revolution and Gardening With Grains, inspire home gardeners to rethink what a beautiful yard can look like. Their conversation begins with foodscaping, the movement to grow edible plants in your ornamental landscape, with tips for growing food amongst your flowers and perennial plants while maintaining a beautiful garden. Join them as they chat about working around and with your HOA, tick safety after contracting Alpha-gal syndrome, and the joy of sharing the love of gardening with the next generation. If you're curious about growing more food in your current garden, making gardening magical for kids, or just need a little spring inspiration, this is the episode for you! Have a gardening story to share? Send a 30-second (or less) video to [email protected] for a chance to be featured in an upcoming episode and receive a special thank-you gift.🎧 Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and follow along on YouTube for behind-the-scenes clips, garden tours, and exclusive episodes.🌼 Follow Our GuestsBrie ArthurWebsite: Brie Grows: Practical Gardening AdviceYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BrieThePlantLadyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/brietheplantlady🌱 Special Offer for Listeners:Get 5% off all online purchases at BotanicalInterests.com with code INTHEGARDEN🌸 Seed of the Day: Holy Basilhttps://www.botanicalinterests.com/products/tulsi-holy-basil-seeds

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Welcome back to In the Garden with Flower Hill Farm, where we dig into the beauty, rhythms, and practical magic of growing a garden you love. Join Nicole from Flower Hill Farm for thoughtful conversations, seasonal inspiration, and real-world gardening wisdom. Powered by Botanical Interests, your trusted source for high-quality seeds and gardening know-how.Whether you are planning your next harvest or just want to enjoy the beauty of your garden, this show is your invitation to grow with intention.

In this episode, Nicole chats with Marryn Mathis, the “Sweet Pea Queen” and author of SWEET PEA SCHOOL: Growing and Arranging the Garden's Most Romantic Blooms. They talk all things sweet peas, including what makes them so special and their favorite varieties. 

Marryn shares her best tips for succeeding with sweet peas, with details on timing, germination, pinching, and fertilizing. She also shares the process and rewards of hybridizing sweet peas to make new, exciting varieties. 

If you're curious about how to succeed in growing one of the world’s most charming and fragrant flowers, this episode is for you! 

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🌼 Follow Our GuestsMarryn MathisWebsite: https://thefarmhouseflowerfarm.com/

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/thefarmhouseflowerfarm

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🌸 Seed of the Day: Sweet Peas

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Welcome back to In the Garden with Flower Hill Farm, where we dig into the beauty, rhythms, and practical magic of growing a garden you love. Join Nicole from Flower Hill Farm for thoughtful conversations, seasonal inspiration, and real-world gardening wisdom. Powered by Botanical Interests, your trusted source for high-quality seeds and gardening know-how.Whether you are planning your next harvest or just want to enjoy the beauty of your garden, this show is your invitation to grow with intention.

In this episode, Nicole sits down with Meagan Lloyd of Meg Grows Plants and The Garden Girls Podcast to talk about chaos gardening, preserving the harvest, and gardens as a sanctuary when the world feels dark. Meagan shares how she discovered the magic of chaos gardening and how it’s changed the way she grows.

Together, Meagan and Nicole chat about their favorite plants to grow, and Nicole gets inspired by Meg’s clever ways to preserve her harvest, from easy pickles to making tomato skin powder for future soups. They chat about what they’re growing now, along with their favorite tools and seeds to work with this time of year. 

If you're curious about chaos gardening, preserving, or tapping into the pulse of your garden’s ecosystem, this episode will inspire you! 

Have a gardening story to share? Send a 30-second (or less) video to [email protected] for a chance to be featured in an upcoming episode and receive a special thank-you gift.

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🌼 Follow Our GuestsMeagan LloydWebsite: https://meggrowsplants.substack.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@meggrowsplants

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meggrowsplants/

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🌸 Seed of the Day: Peas

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Welcome back to In the Garden with Flower Hill Farm, where we dig deep into the beauty, challenges, and joy of gardening! Join Nicole from Flower Hill Farm as she shares her passion for plants, flowers, and the stories that grow alongside them. Each episode is packed with inspiration, practical advice, and real talk from one of the most colorful gardens. Powered by Botanical Interests, your trusted source for exceptional seeds and gardening wisdom.

In this episode, Nicole sits down with one of her most trusted mentors, Dave Dowling, cut flower specialist with Ball and Colorlink, for a conversation about all the world of cut flowers has to offer.

Dave shares firsthand knowledge from working alongside some of the world's leading horticultural companies. He and Nicole dig into the best varieties for growers at every level, smart strategies for selling more flowers, planting timing, and the secrets behind growing those dreamy, picture-perfect ranunculus.

Looking ahead, Dave shares exciting flower trends for the upcoming season and offers rare behind-the-scenes insight into what breeders are developing for gardeners right now. Dave and Nicole give us a glimpse of their upcoming trip to France and Amsterdam, where they'll be visiting some of Europe's most celebrated cut-flower growers firsthand.

If you've ever wanted to grow armfuls of beautiful blooms, understand the business side of flower farming, or simply sell more of what you're already growing, this is the episode for you.

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🌸 Seed of the Day

King Size Silvery Rose Strawflower

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