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Articles, numbers and free tools for cut flower growers, written by the people building BloomOS. No fluff, no funnel, just the stuff we wish someone had written down for us.

Well-worn work gloves and a canvas apron on a wooden field bench at the end of the day, low golden light across flower beds

The numbersAugust 2026

Labour, the number nobody counts

Every profit example prices the grower's own hours at zero. Where a peak-season week actually goes, how to give yourself a wage, and the systems that buy hours back.

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A flower farm gate stall at dusk: buckets of dahlias and cosmos under a warm festoon bulb, with an honesty box and a blank chalkboard

The numbersAugust 2026

Is flower farming profitable? An honest answer

Yes, eventually, on purpose. What each sales channel really pays, the costs people forget, the usual four-year timeline, and the habits profitable farms share.

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Inside a greenhouse at golden morning light: rows of seed trays on a propagation bench at visibly different stages of growth

GrowingAugust 2026

Succession planting for cut flowers, without losing your mind

The July gap comes for everyone. The three kinds of succession, sowing intervals that survive a real season, and a worked cosmos calendar to steal.

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A glass vase of dinner-plate dahlias in burgundy and blush on a dark farmhouse shelf, lit by a shaft of warm evening light

GrowingAugust 2026

How long do dahlias last as cut flowers? The truth, and how to stretch it

Three to seven days, and the farm decides most of it. Cutting stage, the hot water trick, and the varieties that hold longest in the vase.

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Wholesale bunches of ranunculus and sweet peas wrapped in kraft paper on a wooden workroom bench, with twine and snips

SellingAugust 2026

How many stems in a bunch? The reference I wish I'd had

The standard wholesale counts, UK and US, flower by flower, plus how retail market bunches and per-stem pricing really work.

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A flower farmer's kitchen table at night: notebook with a hand-drawn bed plan, seed catalogue, calculator and a mug of tea

The numbersAugust 2026

Flower farm profit per acre, and why per bed is the number that matters

Everyone asks what a flower farm makes per acre. The honest answer: the acre is the wrong unit. The profit maths for a single bed of dahlias, every assumption shown.

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A hand-drawn crop plan on graph paper on a potting bench, with seed packets, pencils, twine and fresh-cut stems

Free resourcesAugust 2026

The cut flower crop planning spreadsheet

Crop plan, succession planner, bed plan, seed order and profit-per-bed maths in one free workbook. No email required, just download it.

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