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I feel so loved for my #tiktok followers to be finding me on my other platforms. Thank you. I will follow everyone back tomorrow ❤️ Heart-shaped wreath tutorials will be posted Monday, in time for your Valentine's Day loves #ValentinesDay

i like making bugs into art 🪲✨

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I made amaryllis dish gardens for Valentine's Day and posted on my blog. A flower lifestyle tutorial or just a pleasant read with beautiful, calming photos. Next on my desk is heart-shaped dried flower wreaths. That tutorial will be posted soon! snowandflowers.com

I have been making snowflake ornaments most winters for the past five years. I have put together a tutorial with everything I know and a companion video that shows what supplies are needed. Beautiful winter decorations, with fairy lights! These are available for free on my blog at snowandflowers.com

The warm orange, red-orange, yellow glow of the dried citrus garlands contrast with the quickly dark, cold days in the Christmas season.

Oranges, grapefruit, lemons, clementines, limes, key limes, Swarovski crystals, wooden beads, white baker's twine. 6'

Available in my Christmas shop or online.

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9. If you would like a more careful tutorial on growing heirloom chrysanthemums, please visit my tiktok, and look at the playlist "chrysanthemums & crushes". 🤍 www.tiktok.com/@forestgangs...

An image of a bouquet of flowers containing heirloom chrysanthemums and dahlias in a Creamsicle orange and cotton candy pink color palette. The bouquet is in a mason jar that has a delicate grey ribbon around it, tied into a bow; the ribbon is securing a business card to the arrangement.

An image of a bouquet of flowers containing heirloom chrysanthemums and dahlias in a Creamsicle orange and cotton candy pink color palette. The bouquet is in a mason jar that has a delicate grey ribbon around it, tied into a bow; the ribbon is securing a business card to the arrangement.

8. Cut the flowers in the early morning & place them in a vase (or buckets) of clean water. They have an *exceptionally* long vase life. Pair early varieties with the last of the season's lisianthus, & with dahlias & foxgloves. Pair later blooming varieties with stock, snapdragons, & sweet peas.

7. The chrysanthemums like to have a bit of nitrogen, early in their season, to help them put on green growth and become robust plants, as well as full sun, and regular watering. When the days shorten for autumn, they will initiate blooming, and begin to make cut-flowers for you.

An image of a crystal vase containing blush colored chrysanthemums, dahlias, and foxgloves, accented with burgundy colored cosmos. The vase is on a cement ledge, outside, to show the flower colors in natural daylight.

The same arrangement and vase from another perspective.

The same arrangement and vase from another perspective.

An extremely close up image of the flowers described in the first image, showing the palest pink, almost cream-white petals of an heirloom chrysanthemum.

6. Plant your mother plants and cuttings close together, only 6-9" apart. This will make them feel crowded, and they will grow upwards, and this will create long, strong, straight stems for your cut-flowers, instead of sprawling, wonky, bushy plants. Make sure they have soil with compost to grow in.

An image showing an exacto knife sanitizing in a cup of rubbing alcohol, used for cutting sprouts off of mother chrysanthemum plants.

An image showing an exacto knife sanitizing in a cup of rubbing alcohol, used for cutting sprouts off of mother chrysanthemum plants, next to root stimulator powder, with a mother plant to the left, and a tray of soil with cut off sprouts, dipped in the powder, and inserted into the soil in the tray, ready to grow roots and become independent plants.

An image of two trays full of soil, with rows of chrysanthemum clones inserted into the soil.

5. Bring your mother plants up in very early spring, water them, and give them a sunny window or grow light. Sprouts will grow, that you can cut off, poke into the soil, and they will become more rooted cuttings for you to grow, share, trade, or sell. Plant them after the last frost in spring.

An image showing chrysanthemum mother plants that have been potted, trimmed down to a couple inches, and stored in a basement, but prevented from drying out.

4. When you order a set of 4 itty bitty rooted cuttings, they'll be expensive. It's ok, because they will grow into "mother" plants. You can dig them up at the end of fall, store them in your basement, bring them up in early spring, and make a bunch more plants with them! Dig, trim, pot, store.

An image of heirloom chrysanthemums paired with dahlias to create a bouquet in a blush-pink and red color palette.

An image of heirloom chrysanthemums paired with dahlias and foxgloves to create a bouquet in a blush-pink and red color palette.

An image of heirloom chrysanthemums paired with dahlias & lisianthus to create a bouquet in a blush-pink and red color palette.

3. Heirloom chrysanthemums bloom in autumn & come in early fall, mid fall, & late fall blooming varieties. If you live in a zone with an early frost, choose an early blooming variety so it has enough time to grow and bloom. When you order them, it will say if it's an early, mid, or late bloom.

2. Just like dahlias, heirloom chrysanthemums have many varieties that grow all different colors, bloom forms, and sizes. It is exciting to pick out heirloom chrysanthemums that make flowers that you will love! I took every picture in this thread, of the mums I grow-and how I pair them for bouquets.

Heirloom chrysanthemums are incredible cut-flowers. You can grow a few plants in your home cut-flower #garden (or a whole crop at your cut-flower farm!) I can tell you how to grow #heirloomchrysanthemums for cut-flowers, show you pictures of the ones I grow, & recommend where to get them. (A thread)