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Grow Your Own Cut Flower Garden!

Flower GardeningFebruary 6, 2018gail

Want to fill your home with fresh flowers this year? Plant a Cutting Garden!

Part of the fun and excitement of gardening is enjoying the beauty of the flowers. Plan this year to design your own cutting garden for one of a kind bouquets directly from your garden!

Planning your cutting flower bed

When planning, remember this is a cutting garden.  How many times have you admired a flower in your garden but didn’t cut it and bring it inside because you didn’t want to spoil the look of your garden outside?

That’s why the best possible solution is to create a designated cutting flower bed. This new garden bed, if possible, should be in a sunny location that is farther back of your garden.  A location that you won’t mind picking the flowers from, one that won’t be disturbed if you decide to make a design for your kitchen table.  Short on room for an additional bed?  Try planting large containers in a sunny location that you can pluck a flower or two from easily.

What type of flowers are you looking for?

Are you looking for large solitary blooms like sunflowers, zinnias or coneflowers or a multitude of smaller flowers like Penta or Verbena? Whatever your look don’t forget to include not only annuals but perennials, grasses, shrubs and bulbs too!  Each will be a designer touch to your bouquet!

Look here for all our new varieties.

Find these new plants and more from our NGB Shop Our Members.

Try These 15 New 2018 Varieties in Your Cutting Garden

Tartan Dahlia
The blossoms are an artful blend of deep burgundy and snowy white, with some petals solid and others striped. NGB member - Longfield Gardens
Rip City Dahlia
The velvety flowers are almost black in the center, softening to maroon and wine-red at the outer edges. NGB member - Longfield Gardens
First Editions® Virtual Violet™ Lilac
Virtual Violet™ has shiny violet new leaves, deep purple stems, raspberry-purple buds and fragrant violet flowers. NGB member - Bailey Nurseries
Queeny Lime Zinnia is perfect for a cutting garden - National Garden Bureau
Sporting lovely, large, dahlia-like blooms on a sturdy, compact plant. NGB member - Floragran
Sweet Dreams Sea Pinks
Sweet Dreams continuously blooms from March to October. NGB member - Ball Horticultural Co.
Sallie's Double Pink Poppy
Sallie’s Double Pink is fully double with fluffy pink blooms. Don’t deadhead, harvest seedpods for a fantastic cut flower accent. NGB member - Harris Seed
Red Beauty Zinnia
Red Beauty blooms beautiful deep red double flowers with golden tips in the center. NGB member - Terra Organics
Utrecht Blue Wheat
Bright blue seed heads keep their color even after drying, for stunning ornamentals in flower arrangements and crafts. NGB member - Botanical Interests
Penhill Dark Monarch Dahlia
As the long, shapely petals twist and turn, they reveal warm, sunset hues of peach and rose. NGB member - Longfield Gardens
Pro Cut White Nite Sunflower
This pollen-free variety will have no pollen dropping from the blooms, for stain-free tablecloths and extended vase life. NGB member - Harris Seed
Sweet Mademoiselle Rose
Ovoid buds open into large, old-fashioned fragrant blooms in lush tones of pink with orange-pink shading. NGB member - Edmunds Roses
Sunfinity Yellow Dark Center Sunflower
Sunfinity offers nonstop blooming, multiple branches and more flowers all season. NGB member - Syngenta
Breakout Dahlia
The color and size of this beautiful dahlia are similar to Café au Lait, but the petals are more pink than cream, and the center of the flower has a pale yellow glow. NGB member - Longfield Gardens
Torch Blue Lavender
Finely cut silvery-grey fern-like, oregano scented foliage and stems topped by attractive 2.5 in. flower spikes. NGB member - Hem Genetics
Majorette Pink Halo Gerbera
4-5" bicolor pink/red flowers perfect for any bouquet. NGB member - Sakata Seed America

What are you planning to add to your cut flower garden this year?

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3 comments. Leave new

hoa dam tang
May 31, 2018 2:36 pm

I like the bouquet of flowers, the tulips look beautiful.

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mua hoa
May 31, 2018 2:35 pm

It is a time to look at the flowers blooming from its roots, watching the beautiful flowers in winter will be much warmer heart.

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Carolyn Roof
February 11, 2018 5:11 pm

Ordered butterfly attracting annuals and perennials seed. The high school host. is starting them, to plant a Monarch Waystation at the school and for me to plant at home. Adding nicotiana, tuberose, and cosmos plants as that was what was always planted in cutting garden of the previous owner.

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