Dry, Hot Weather Impacting Floral Market in the South
Photo: Orchard Hollow
Flowers from Central Texas flower farms may be hard to find in florist shops or at farmers markets this summer thanks to constant extreme heat, drought conditions, and water restrictions.
A recent article on KWTX.com highlights how during normal summer weather conditions, farms such as Orchard Hollow, a flower and herb farm in Moody, would be full of flowers. But this year, the garden is full of withered sunflowers, large cracks from dry dirt, and other flowers that are holding on for life.
“Most of our heat-tolerant flowers are surviving the heat, but they’re not giving out consistent blooms,” says Amelia Nolan, an owner of Orchard Hollow. “They’re alive, and part of the reason for that is we went through and cut most everything down very low and added extra mulch around the base of the plants to keep the plant alive.”
Continue reading at KWTX.com.
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