Cut Flower Garden Design

Tips on how to grow a cut flower garden from gardener and florist helena willcocks.

Cut flower garden design. Find an out of the way sunny spot in your yard somewhere that guests won t notice and fill it with plants that are grown to be cut. Use a grid to make your plan. In fact growing a row or two of flowers in your vegetable garden is an easy way to get started.

You can grow a beautiful cut flower garden with annual flowers to make stunning bouquets even if you re in a small space. It s such a delight to see flowers blooming in the garden it s often hard to cut them to bring indoors that s the beauty of a designated cutting garden. In this striking guide you will find everything you need to grow harvest and arrange stunning seasonal blooms.

With equal parts instruction and inspiration floret farm s cut flower garden welcomes you into erin benzakein s abundant bloom filled world and is a feast for every flower lover s eyes and soul. This garden design example includes only perennials but you could easily tuck in some zinnias gomphrena cosmos and nigella in between. I absolutely love growing flowers arranging them and just being on my plot surrounded by them.

Grow the flower garden of your dreams. Everyone needs flowers in their life. The most efficient way to set up a cutting garden is to grow your flowers in rows as you would vegetables.

Here s how i designed mine using square foot gardening techniques plus some of my favourite flowers like zinnias snapdragons dahlias and calendula to grow. There will be necessary weeding and maintenance but that s also true of annual flower gardens. Start with a sunny spot.

You ll get the most blooms when you tuck your cutting garden into an area that receives plenty of sun six hours is ideal but four will work. Includes how to layout your garden amending soil and flowers to choose for scented and long lasting bouquets. Creating a planting plan is the best way to maximize your growing space.