Cuttung Flower Garden Design
Prepare the planting area making sure it is loose and weed less.
Cuttung flower garden design. Snowy spires grows in zones 5 to 8 in full sun. Reaching 18 to 30 inches tall snowy spires is a striking perennial. You can still mix some annual flowers into your perennial cutting garden.
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. Annuals ageratum floss.
Give your cutting garden a sunny spot with well drained soil. The most efficient way to set up a cutting garden is to grow your flowers in rows as you would vegetables. 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. This garden design example includes only perennials but you could easily tuck in some zinnias gomphrena cosmos and nigella in between. 28 best perennials for a cutting flower garden snowy spires verbascum.
Ideal for cut flower gardens with graceful romantic spires. Judicious cutting and pruning around your entire yard can result in spectacular and interesting arrangements. Summer blooming snowy spires verbascum has pure white floral spikes with lush green foliage.
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.