Everyone loves a stunning bouquet of flowers. They go great in your home, bring life to your office and are beautiful as a gift. You do not need an elaborate cutting garden to bring flowers in to your home but it will require a good use of space around your home. You will want flowers throughout the season and flowers that can last longer in a vase of water. Here are some tips for starting your own garden for cut flowers.
Before adding to plants to your landscape make sure you know what type of sunlight your plants will receive. Is it full sun, full shade, or do you have an area that gets some sunlight throughout the day? If you get a good amount of sunlight through early afternoon almost all sun loving plants will do well. Perennials are the obvious choice for cut flowers but don’t forget about your flowering shrubs as many will provide you with an abundance of cut flowers.
Make sure you have plants for flowers throughout the year. Mix your plants together in groupings so you have plenty of flowers to choose from. Try using perennials and shrubs in your garden that flower at different times. You want your outside to look beautiful even with a few flowers missing. Try grouping perennial plants in 3 or 5 for a nice aesthetic look. You’ll still have plenty of flowers for the neighbors to see and bring inside.
Don’t get obsessed with only using flowers. Foliage makes a nice companion and lasts just as long in a vase. Try placing ferns and hosta in your shadier locations. Even plants like coral bells and lady’s mantle have great leaves you can use. The foliage helps fill out the voids in the vase and make for stunning accents in your garden. Even foliage from shrubs such as hydrangeas and branches from Japanese maples can look stunning as fillers.
Try using some of these plants in your garden for an amazing look outside and for great looking vases inside:
Spring Color Flowers:
Peonies
Bleeding Heart
Dianthus
Tuliips
Hyacinth
Lilac
Fragrant Viburnum
Summer Color Flowers:
Shasta Daisy
Coneflower
Liatris
Coreopsis
Garden Phlox
Delphinium
Lily
Hydrangea
Russian Sage
Saliva
Rose
Fall Color Flowers:
Aster
Bee Balm
Sedum
Anemone
Plants for Foliage:
Coral Bell
Hosta
Fern
Lady’s Mantle
Sweet Woodruff
Lungwort
Solomon’s Seal
