Saturday, September 20, 2008

Growing Flowers For Pleasure And For Sale

Growing flowers can increase the variety of colors in your yard. Instead of a backyard with just green lawn, you may place one or two flower beds with a variety of flowers to bring a range of colours in the spring and summer. There are a small number of flowers that bloom in the colder weather, like flowering cherry trees, which you may include in your yard, to result in longer periods of blooming flowers in your yard.

If you want to sell some of your flowers, as a side income or as a full time business, then you will need more growing flowers in your yard. You may begin with a cutting bed in your yard, but as demand for your flowers grows, then you may need to look for reliable suppliers or find a few rural acres to grow plenty of flowers to meet the demand.

Other ideas may include selling flowers at local markets. You can arrange for a stand in your local market, after gaining permission to set up a stall. Before you set up a stand, find out what permits are required to sell at each local market, so that you are not faced with any financial penalties.

You may even arrange attending different markets, as some local markets are only open on specific days and closed on other days. So all you need to do is arrange a stand for your flowers and you will be selling flowers at the local market.

By selling your flowers at the market you can confirm which flowers are the more popular and continue to grow those in your cutting bed. As demand for your flowers grows, you may need more space to grow your flowers and you may find a lot of your yard is taken up with your cutting bed.

You may continue growing flowers in your yard, but to meet the demand you may need to look at commercial suppliers.

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