Planting A Cut Flower Garden
Fill Your Yard With Bright Blooms & Create Beautiful Homegrown Bouquets
One of the greatest joys of growing a garden or meadow is having plenty of flowers to share. Bring your bouquets inside to brighten your home, or surprise your friends, neighbors, and loved ones with a special gift!
Which wildflowers, plants, and flower bulbs are best for cut flowers? Read on to learn more, plus see helpful tips for making your own beautiful bouquets!
The Best Wildflowers For Cut Flowers
Growing wildflowers from seed makes it easy to grow abundant blooms, so you have plenty of flowers to use in bouquets and plenty to enjoy in your garden or meadow.
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Annual wildflowers, such as Sunflowers, Zinnias, and Cosmos, are a very popular choice for cut flowers. Why?
- First, they're available in a huge range of colors and forms, so you can choose your favorites and create your perfect palette of plants for bouquets.
- Plus, Annuals grow quickly, blooming in just about 2 months after the seeds germinate in spring, and they'll bloom continually through frost. With many annuals, the more you cut, the more they will bloom!
- Perennial wildflowers, such as popular Coneflowers and Daisies, are also great for cut flowers. Perennials take longer to establish from seed - typically 2 years before they bloom. However, since perennials return year after year, you can plant once, then enjoy the flowers return with each passing season.
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The Best Perennial Plants For Cut Flowers
Perennial plants are ideal for establishing beautiful gardens and meadowscapes, and they can also provide bountiful flowers and foliage for cut flower bouquets!
- Peonies are cut flower favorites - their delicate fragrance and lush, full blooms make them irresistible. Plus, you only need to cut a few blooms for an instant bouquet.
- Tall Garden Phlox are also showy perennials that easily fill out a cut flower bouquet with fragrant flowers.
- Lilies are easy-to-grow perennials that are famously fragrant and make beautiful additions to homemade bouquets.
- With slender stems and elegant flowers, fragrant Lavender is also a wonderful addition to a cut flower garden.
- Ornamental Grasses can also make great additions to fresh or dried cut flower arrangements, thanks to their showy seed heads.
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The Best Fall-Planted Bulbs For Cut Flowers
Fall-planted, spring-blooming flower bulbs are some of the most delightful for cut flower gardens. There are dozens of varieties, in a stunning array of colors and textures! You'll just need to plan ahead and plant bulbs in fall - and these spring blooms will be some of the first cut flowers you can enjoy in the growing season!
- Sunny Daffodils are the perfect flower for simple, cheerful bouquets. Large-Cupped Daffodils have sturdy, long-lasting flowers on strong stems. Large ruffled cups arrive in mid-spring, perfect for standing alone, or combine beautifully with other spring bloomers.
- Tulips are among the best-loved cut flowers. Tulips are available in a stunning array of hues, from soft pastels to saturated reds and violets. Double Tulips double the fun with their lush, almost peony-like flowers, and a bouquet of double tulips is simply stunning!
- With globe-shaped flowers on tall, sturdy stems, Allium flowers are long-lasting blooms that make great cut flowers too. The flowers can easily be displayed in a tall vase where their sculptural form will put on a show.
- You can easily add bountiful blooms to your cut flower garden with our color-coordinated Fall-Planted Bulb Collections, featuring Daffodils, Tulips, Alliums, and more!
The Best Spring-Planted Bulbs For Cut Flowers
Like annual wildflowers, spring-planted bulbs grow to their full mature size in the first growing season. That means you can plant them in spring, and enjoy their blooms the very same summer! Plus, they also come in a dazzling array of colors and forms so you can let your creativity shine.
- Dahlias are hands down a must-have for any cutting garden - these huge, picture-perfect blooms make it easy to create a stunning bouquet.
- On tall, upright stems with vivid flowers, Gladiolus are another florist favorite - just a few stems will make a beautiful display.
- With smooth, elegant blooms, Callas are another popular florist favorite for simple, sophisticated bouquets
- You can easily add bountiful blooms to your cut flower garden with our color-coordinated Bulb Collections, featuring Dahlias, Glads, and colorful unique bulbs too!
