09/03/2026
September is when next year’s flower garden begins!
It may still be hot outside and plenty of flowers are still blooming, but now is a good time to start doing a few little things that will make life MUCH easier next spring.
Here are a few things I’m starting to think about around Flowers Galore:
🌱 Save seeds from your favorites.
If a flower was beautiful, productive and healthy this year, mark it and save those seeds!
✂️ Start cleaning out the tired plants.
You don’t have to clear everything at once. When something is truly finished, pull it and clean up that little area. Ten minutes here and there beats an entire weekend later!
📝 Write down what worked — and what DIDN’T.
Trust me, you think you’ll remember next spring. You won’t. 😂 Write it down now!
🌼 Mark your perennials.
Before everything disappears for winter, make sure you know where those perennials and bulbs are hiding. Nothing like accidentally digging one up next spring!
🌿 Get ahead of the w**ds.
Every w**d you keep from going to seed now is potentially hundreds you won’t be fighting next year.
🧹 Clean as you go.
Empty pots, trays, buckets, tools and supplies can slowly be cleaned and put away instead of becoming one giant end-of-season job.
And probably the biggest lesson I’ve learned…
🌸 You don’t have to grow EVERYTHING!
Pay attention to what you actually used, what sold, what bloomed well and what brought you joy. Next year’s garden doesn’t have to be bigger — it can just be smarter.
A little work now can make springtime a whole lot easier!
💬 Flower growers and gardeners — what is ONE thing you’re doing this fall to make next year easier?
🌸 Flowers Galore Flower Farm
