Cut Flower Garden Bed
Find an out of the way sunny spot in your yard somewhere that guests wont notice and fill it with plants that are grown to be cut.
Cut flower garden bed. Thats partly because i find it hard to cut the flowers in my perennial borders. Carefully site your cut flower bed. The painted concrete border is an easy diy that makes this backyard flower garden look customized and almost like a built in feature. Plant galaxy blue in flower beds or.
Blooms over the summer perfect for creating summer bouquets. Sunflowers are a great flower to display alone or in small groups in a vase. What better way to add a little color to your garden than with a round flower bed with bright colorful flowers. Now keep in mind the purpose of a cut flower bed is to cut the flowers as often as they bloom.
Annuals ageratum floss flower cleome spider flower cosmos dianthus gomphrena globe amaranth gypsophila babys. Every one of them seems to play a part in creating the total picture. Agapanthus galaxy blue has 4 inch constellations of blue blooms on 36 to 40 inch tall stems. And since not all perennial flowers bloom at the same time your bouquets and arrangements will take on a seasonal flair and provide you with ever changing variety.
These plants reach 20 30 inches high but offer lots of flower power with their gold petals and deep brown eyes the heavily branching plants produce lots of flowers on long stems that are good for cutting. 28 best perennials for a cutting flower garden agapanthus galaxy blue. The round cement border makes this little flower bed stand out and make a statement. When i began planting my own gardens as an adult i found that generous bouquets in my home meant a spare show in my garden so before i had even heard the term i planted a cutting garden for more than 10 years my husband and i have hosted weddings in our gardens and grown thousands of cut flowers for these events.
So this wont necessarily be the most beautiful bed in your garden. A free garden design for a perennial cutting garden. Discover 10 colourful cut flowers to grow from seed in your garden including beautiful choices for scent and vase life from bbc gardeners world magazine. Complete with specified plants and alternaives.
Cutting gardens by anne halpin and betty mackey is an excellent guidebook for planning growing and arranging flowers heres a partial list of some of the plants to consider for your garden. Theres no shortage of flowers in my perennial gardens but it wasnt until i planted a cutting garden that i felt like i had plenty for bouquets. Think elegance when youre looking for a compact sunflower with bold color. You may want to tuck it in between some of your more beautiful vegetables such as long producing indeterminate tomatoes or come and cut greens.
Galaxy blue grows in zones 6 to 10 in full sun. Many perennials will repeat flower if kept dead headed which is exactly what a cutting garden is for. A continuous bloomer thru early fall galaxy blue makes a stunning cut flower.