The basics of growing and harvesting flowers on a cutting garden plus extensive lists of annual and perennial flowers to grow in your cutting garden.
Tips on how to grow a cut flower garden including how to layout your garden, amending soil, and flowers to choose for scented bouquets
These full sun perennials have beautiful flowers, are long blooming and low maintenance plants that are perfect for a summer cutting garden.
Thinking about growing a cutting garden but aren't sure where to start? Here are some cut flower garden "dos and don'ts" for beginners.
Cut and come again flowers are long blooming annuals that produce new stems all season long, rewarding the gardener with a bountiful harvest.
Are you bored of traditional roses and peonies in your flower arrangements? Look beyond the obvious and plant these showstopping blooms in your cutting garden.
This guide is your first step to planning how to start a cut flower garden. Explore layouts combining perennial and annual flowers.
What flower seeds you need to buy for creating an annual cut flower garden that blooms all season long. Easy sewing method that looks like wildflowers.
Feast your eyes on the English countryside, gorgeous gardens, and beautiful blooms.
Easy to grow from seed, tough as nails, drought tolerant and winter hardy as well, yarrow is a great plant to grow - requiring very little care or maintenance - and will provide you with a lot of blooms for use in floral arrangements and bouquets.
Spring is definitely my favorite time of year, not just because we are coming out of the dark days of winter, but because it is a time to freshen up and make changes inside and outdoors. This year I decided to make a big change in my yard by planting a cutting garden in my...
Perennials in your cutting garden is a great way to have cut flowers that are low maintenance. A cutting garden does not always have to start from seed.
Anyone can grow their own cut flowers and enjoy blooms you wouldn't be able to find at the store. Here's how to start growing and which flowers to choose.
A conversation came to my attention the other day. A conversation between two of my new and somewhat casual friends. They were talking about how immaculate my house and garden are. That was the word they used. Immaculate. (That noise you hear is the hysterical laughter of every single person who knows me in real life.) They were wondering how I do it all. In the end, one of the friends said, "I am such a failure!" The person telling me about this conversation was very sweetly complimenting me and my house and my garden, and believe you me, I'll take compliments any day of the week. But. The conversation made me sad. Sad that a friend could think they are even in the failure neighborhood because they can't live up to an illusion. I am a lot of things, but immaculate is most definitely not one of them. My house never has been and never will be immaculate. Yes, I'll pick up the house when I know someone's stopping by, but drop in unexpectedly, and you're likely to see a different picture. I am not ever going to win an award for housekeeper of the year. On any given day, you can write your name in the dust on my furniture, and my broom doesn't get used nearly as often as it should. We won't even talk about my bathrooms. As far as the garden goes, it's full of weeds. Weeds that are ready to go to seed. I am easily distracted. Right now? Right this very moment? I should be making cookies to send in a care package to my overseas soldier. Homeboy needs some cookies, but instead I'm writing a blog post and that means that I'll be in a huge rush later today to get the package to the post office in time. I should be editing senior pictures that are due this evening. I should be packing for a trip I'm taking. But instead, I'm blogging. I should also be doing laundry. My hubby gets irritated with me on a fairly regular basis, (rightly so), because he has no socks or underwear in his drawers. I am unorganized. I love to write lists, but more often than not, I lose the list. I'm a procrastinator. Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Don't get me wrong. I've got plenty of strengths, too. I work very, very well under pressure. I can get so much done when I've got an important deadline on the horizon, it would make your head spin. I'm like a Tasmanian Devil on steroids when push comes to shove. When company is coming, I can get my A-game on with the best of them. A wedding in my back yard? Do. Not. Get. In. My. Way. But in the day to day, more often than not, I am a hot mess of good intentions, craft project carnage, and empty underwear drawers. Now, if you find yourself telling me in the comments not to be so hard on myself, you've totally missed the point of this post. I'm not dissing myself in any way, shape or form. I just wanted to tell you that immaculate perfection isn't real. But I'm pretty sure you already knew that anyway. I don't do it all, and I sincerely hope I've never led you to believe that I do. Of course, I have creative control with my blog. I only show pretty pictures of pretty flowers and a neat house. I'm fairly sure you don't want to see pictures of my laundry pile, but rest assured, it exists and it's a big one. No matter what anyone's life looks like from the outside, no matter how pretty, peaceful or dazzling the photos you see here or anywhere else, real life has always got at least a few bumps and blemishes. The gauge of life's success or failure is in how you live it, not how it looks. Happy Monday!
Want to grow a backyard cut flower garden? Thinking of turning your love of growing flowers into a business? Here are 10 easy to grow annual cut flowers from seed.
Thinking about growing a cutting garden but aren't sure where to start? Here are some cut flower garden "dos and don'ts" for beginners.
Grow these perennials in a cutting garden so you'll always have something to snip for fresh bouquets.
Spring is definitely my favorite time of year, not just because we are coming out of the dark days of winter, but because it is a time to freshen up and make changes inside and outdoors. This year I decided to make a big change in my yard by planting a cutting garden in my...
If you want to grow easy cut flowers this year but you're short on time, money, and materials, this is for you!
We know that growing our own cut flowers is easy, with clear benefits: thrift, bounty, show-off value. But we don't always get around to doing it, despite
A simple guide to cut flower gardening for beginners. Learn how to choose what flowers to grow, care and maintenance, pest control and cutting technique!
The garden of an Oxfordshire manor house has been reinvigorated over many years by the designer Arne Maynard, with bold, distinctive new elements set against the existing framework.
vegetables nourish the body but flowers nourish the soul ✨
Spectacular Perennials for a Cutting Flower Garden Landscape! Have you thought about creating your own cutting flower garden? A private cutting flower garden for your...
We have been planting up a storm over here- from peonies to garden roses to sage and lavender and more. And it is all part of a big overall garden area expansion that involves creating a cutting garden area with lots of blooms and pretty on repeat. We are working on planting and pathways and…
Learn how to grow lisianthus in the garden, how to start it from seed and how to use lisianthus as a cut flower.
Just today I was able to go out into the garden and cut flowers for our dining table (photo above). It's comfort to my soul to be able to grow flowers for our own home.
Gladioli are beautiful plants and a favorite of many gardeners. Due to their height, many people often wonder if it?s possible to have a gladiolus container garden. This article will help with that.
The February “Blog Blizzard. continues!” Even though it is has been a mild winter here in the valley, I know many other parts of the country have had plenty of snow this month. So in solidarity with fellow flower lovers snowed in, we’ve “faux snowed” ourselves inside too in order to flood the blog with […]
Learn how to grow lisianthus in the garden, how to start it from seed and how to use lisianthus as a cut flower.
Growing cosmos in pots is easy, and you'll be rewarded with plenty of flowers for cut or dried arrangements, or you can simply enjoy them in their pot. Read here to learn more about container-grown co
How do you design a garden for two artists who have a highly attuned sense of the visual? When I met photographer Maria Robledo and artist Holton Rower, ab
(via Florist Friday: Interview with Rachel Siegfried of Green and Gorgeous | Flowerona)
First, What is a companion plant? Plant society members often think of their ‘pet’ plants as the stars of any border: flowering perennials, shrubs, trees and climbing plants that are gu…
Earlier this week, I shared a newly expanded list of my top DO’s and DON’Ts when it comes to starting seeds. Today I thought I’d highlight a few of my favorite hardy annual flowers that can be sown early inside to get a jump start on the growing season. Among the many other benefits of transplanting plants […]
Large, fleshy, flattened, blue-green, succulent leaves have a waxy glaucous coating, giving them a powdery blue-gray appearance. A formidable mounding habit comprised of upright stems with skyward-facing foliage. Carefree, very drought tolerant, and highly adaptable. Perfect for a sunny, frost-free, waterwise landscape. Great for containers.
Hellebore is an essential perennial for every shade garden. Indestructible, deer resistant late winter- spring flowers and evergreen foliage
Having a steady supply of foliage is key to making bouquets throughout the season. This post covers the best staple foliages and foliage-like fillers.
Perennials are kind of plants that live for years and mostly grow little buds that bloom into roses of different colors. Perennials grow through different seasons of the year; it depends on the type o
Looking after flowers can be challenging at times. You want to take good care, but sometimes it's demotivating when you know that the plant will last just for one season or so. This is the moment when you need to choose flowers that bloom all year - long. That way,…
The Agapanthus, commonly referred to as the Lily-of-the-Nile or the African lily plant, displays large masses of striking blue or white flowers atop a tall and slender stalk. Learn more about this pla
This beginner-friendly guide shares the magic of growing snapdragons. Learn planting tricks, care secrets & more.
As part of her series based on her book, The Flower Garden, Clare Foster selects her top 10 annuals to grow from seed, recommending new varieties alongside old favourites
Hi Everyone! I’m so so pumped about today’s post friends. It’s been 4 years in the making and I’m incredibly happy to FINALLY start building my dream kitchen garden…and to take you all along with me! This post is the beginning of a monthly series dedicated to the progress and process of me documenting the...Read the Post
Perennials in your cutting garden is a great way to have cut flowers that are low maintenance. A cutting garden does not always have to start from seed.
