Turbow Farms’ head farmette, Charmaine Turbow, offers her advice and tips for selecting landscapes plants to enhance your yard, encouraging gardeners to take an intentional approach for microflower farming.
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I’m Charmaine turbo head farmet here at turbo farms in Los Altos when it comes to micro flower farming we are very intentional when choosing landscape plants we want them not only to be beautiful and productive but also to serve as Greenery and filler for our floral designs Manzanita is a native staple here at our farm it has beautiful small elliptical Evergreen leaves with white bell-like blossoms that hummingbirds just simply love another great Foundation shrub is by Burnham with many varieties to choose from they’s something for everyone they all have excellent vase life and I love the different berries and flowers that they set out now one of my all-time favorites that I want to share with you is prant Thea oval leolia also known as Australian mint Bush This vigorous grower also makes a great screening plant check out the beautiful mint colored leaves with Ivory edging in a few short weeks the shrub will be covered in tiny lavender BL we take plenty of trimmings in early spring to add to our flower bundles I’m Charmaine Turbo from Turbo farms and as we say at the farm flowers or bust