Growing Cutting Flower Gardens

Would you love to have flowers in your home and have some to take to friends?

NHG proudly welcomes back Amanda Vanhoozier of who will guide you in step by step ideas for garden layout, choosing and growing flower varieties that grow well in Texas, and also how to cut and design for beautiful long lasting flower arrangements. This class is for you to learn to grow your own cut flower garden!

Amanda Vanhoozier: Throughout my childhood visits to my Grandparent's farm, Bishop Hill in Ohio, I fell in love with flower gardens, especially the dahlias my Grandpa grew.

Over the years, I have danced around my cut flowers dream through my work with growing school gardens and community gardens and building viable markets for farmers. All along the way, I have tucked away flower related photos, notes, books, magazine clippings which has given way to You Tube videos, Pinterest boards and workshops on growing specialty cut flowers. It was as if my life’s work had prepared me to realize the potential of locally grown flowers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and the happiness they bring to others! I grow year-round on a small-scale, high production flower farm a stone’s throw from the

My vision is for the cut flower bunches to reflect nature and the seasons in North Texas throughout the year. I want to be able to share plants’ unique beauty with my customers to enhance their living spaces and lives!