Want to become your own personal florist and fill your home with fresh flowers. Encourage bringing the outside inside by adding a cutting garden to your landscape. A cutting garden offers a supply of seasonal flowers that are meant to be collected and brought indoors. A classic cutting garden is best described as a vegetable plot for flowers. It is a place where flowers and foliage can be harvested without worry of sacrificing the beauty of your garden. With today’s smaller properties and busy schedules, it would seem there is little space or time for a garden whose sole purpose is for cut flowers. Cutting gardens need plenty of sunshine. This means they need six to eight hours of direct sunlight per day. They can be where vegetable gardens once flourished or sunny spots along the side of the house or garage. You can repurpose a raised bed, or have flowers dispersed through the yard, incorporated into your landscape plan. Here are some suggestions of plants and flowers for your own cutting garden. Try and include some natives, annuals, perennials, and foliage. Start small with a few selections for each season so you can start making some seasonal bouquets. The possibilities are endless!
- Annabelle Hydrangea
- Apasagus Fern
- Asters
- Basil
- Bee Balm
- Black-eyed Susan’s
- Bleeding Heart
- Coleus
- Cosmos
- Dahlia
- Echinacea
- Golden Rod
- Iris
- Lavender
- Larkspur
- Lady’s Mantle
- Marigolds
- Penstemon
- Peony
- Ranunculus ( bulbs )
- Roses
- Salvia
- Scabiosa
- Snap Dragons
- Tulips
- Straw Flowers
- White Sage
- Yarrow
- Zinnia