A season planner made for cut-flower growers
Firstbloom
Know what will bloom each week, before you plant a seed.
Draw your beds on a satellite map and Firstbloom works out your planting dates from your local frost data. Then it shows you every gap in your bloom calendar, week by week, while there is still time to fill it.
Know what will bloom each week, before you plant a seed. Draw your beds on a map and see every gap in your bloom calendar.
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FirstbloomYour frost dates, your bed layouts, and the timing for every flower, all worked out together and shown week by week. Planning your season should be something you look forward to.
Built on public weather data and satellite maps
A day with Firstbloom
DawnFrost alerts
When the National Weather Service forecasts frost, we email you a list of the beds at risk.
A bloom gap finder
See when nothing is blooming and which bouquet role is missing: focal, spike, filler, airy, or foliage. Tap a gap to see flowers that fit.
Tasks that update themselves
Sowing, transplanting, and pinching dates come from your frost data, and they shift when you log the real date.
A seed order list
We count the seeds and packets you need from your row length, spacing, and succession plan.
| Variety | Row feet | Packets |
|---|---|---|
| Zinnia | 420 | 3 |
| Snapdragon | 280 | 2 |
| Cosmos | 210 | 2 |
| Total | 910 | 7 |
Four steps from address to full summer
Start with your address
The map finds your land and fills in your last and first frost dates from 30 years of NOAA records, so you do not have to look them up.
See how long you have
Your last spring frost and first fall frost set your growing season. A field with a last frost near May 5 and a first frost near October 8 gets 156 growing days. Yours is worked out from your address.
Draw your beds
Sketch rectangles on the map, split them into sections, and set your rows and which way they run. The map measures everything for you.
Find the gaps early
Slide through the season and see which rows are in bloom each week. Weeks where little is blooming stand out, so you can add something while there is still time.
The numbers behind the plan
Growing days by month, example
Example split by bouquet role
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How the gap finder reads a season
An example season, week by week. Hover to read it. The shaded stretch is a gap you can still fill.
Everything a flower grower keeps in a notebook
Your land, on a satellite map
Draw your fields, beds, and greenhouses, split them into sections, and set your rows and direction.
A bloom gap finder
See when nothing is blooming and which bouquet role is missing: focal, spike, filler, airy, or foliage. Tap a gap to see flowers that fit.
Tasks that update themselves
Sowing, transplanting, and pinching dates come from your frost data, and they shift when you log the real date.
Frost alerts
When the National Weather Service forecasts frost, we email you a list of the beds at risk.
A seed order list
We count the seeds and packets you need from your row length, spacing, and succession plan.
Sales and profit
Log what you cut and sold, and see revenue per variety, revenue per square foot, and profit per market.
Where flowers bloom so does hope.