CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s a Mother’s Day rite of passage to buy the moms in our lives bouquets of fresh flowers to let them know how much we love and appreciate them. Rather than stopping by a grocery ...

Local cut flowers are hot stuff these days as farmers and small-scale growers cash in on the popularity of fresh bouquets, and home gardeners continue a trend that caught on during COVID-19 cocooning.

‘The best flowers are the ones grown closest to you,’ says florist Jane Marx, founder of The Beautiful Bunch ahead of Mother’s Day.Photograph: Francois Marx Melbourne florist Jane Marx, founder of ...

Cut flowers are a rapidly expanding crop in Tennessee, driven by growing consumer interest in locally grown products and by farms diversifying to manage risk and efficiently utilizing limited acreage.