Cuttung Flower Garden Design

This garden design example includes only perennials but you could easily tuck in some zinnias gomphrena cosmos and nigella in between.

Cuttung flower garden design. Snowy spires grows in zones 5 to 8 in full sun. You can still mix some annual flowers into your perennial cutting garden. Cutting gardens by anne halpin and betty mackey is an excellent guidebook for planning growing and arranging flowers here s a partial list of some of the plants to consider for your garden.

This perennial cutting garden fills a corner bed that s approximately 390 square feet. Summer blooming snowy spires verbascum has pure white floral spikes with lush green foliage. The most efficient way to set up a cutting garden is to grow your flowers in rows as you would vegetables.

With the right flower mix a few rows in a vegetable garden or a 3 by 6 foot bed yield enough blossoms to fuel bouquets for your own use and for giving away. Reaching 18 to 30 inches tall snowy spires is a striking perennial. 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.

Annuals ageratum floss. Prepare the planting area making sure it is loose and weed less. Ideal for cut flower gardens with graceful romantic spires.

If possible take time to work in compost and all purpose organic fertilizer. 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. 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.

28 best perennials for a cutting flower garden snowy spires verbascum.