Even if you don’t know that having fresh blooms at home boosts your mood up to 20%, you might enjoy the look of flowers. If you happen to have a garden, you can grow these flowers yourself, and for that you will need to plant a cut flower garden.
What Is A Cut Flower Garden?
This is a space where you grow flowers to cut and put them in a vase or just harvest blooms, perhaps, to sell them.
What To Consider Planning A Cut Flower Garden?
You will need a sunny location with at least 6-8 hours of sunlight and it’s non-negotiable as most blooms like dahlias, marigolds, and sunflowers require sunlight. Buy a soil tester that will help you to figure out if your soil has the right pH balance and nutrients. If necessary, mix in some compost or perlite to improve drainage.
Use a 4ft x 3ft bed design to accommodate different flower types. Place taller varieties at the back and shorter ones in front to guarantee all receive sunlight. For continuous blooms, implement succession planting by staggering sowing dates. Create pathways around your flower beds for easy access and maintenance.
Garden Phlox is a cool solution that will add color to the patch and can be planted as a backdrop as it's quite tall.
Yarrow is a bold and gorgeous solution that looks modern and catchy and is perfect for infusing a space with color.
Choose a full sun patch for your cut garden, at least 6-8 hrs of sun a day.
You can choose to plant your cut garden at the fence, this way you will style the fence and get lovely cut blooms.
Colorful mums and dahlias are perfect for cut gardens, just look what a landscape you will get! They will look lovely in vases, too.
Bright dahlias will look fantastic both in the garden and at home in vases.
The extra bold mums and dahlias are amazing for summer and fall and they will add interest not only inside but also outside.
You can choose various cut blooms that will blossom continuously, one by one.
Dahlias and mums are nice to pair with each other and just look what a patch you can get!.
If you have a harsh climate, planting a cut garden in a greenhouse is a smart solution.
The extra bold dahlias are lined up with a hedge and will become a focal point in any garden.
A cut garden may be used to harvest blooms and sell them, as a little home business.
Create a fantastic garden bed with dahlias, roses and phlox to fill your space with color.
What Are Best Cut Flowers?
Zinnias, sunflowers, dahlias, sweet peas, scabious and cosmos are great for beginners. Plant yarrows and garden phlox will thrive year after year. Peonies, roses, ageratum, snapdragons, calendula, salvia, aster, tulips, dianthus, lilies and delphiniums are great cut flowers, too.
How To Choose Cut Flowers?
Besides considering climate and environment, you will want to think about what flowers you really like. How will you be using them: for events, for arrangements in vases, crafts? Do you need flowers that do okay out of water for weddings or other events? Do you want flowers that are pollen-less due to allergies? After answering all these questions it will be easier to choose your perfect blooms.
You can choose more simple blooms, for example, those that look like chamomiles, to create a meadow-like garden.
Colorful asters will add interest to the garden and will look lovely in vases at home.
Ageratum is a beautiful bloom that is perfect for a cut garden, perhaps not for beginners but still.
Sunflowers are the most popular choice for a cut garden, they don't require too much maintenance and look awesome.
Cornflags are cool cut flowers as they are tall and catchy and feature lots of colors.
Zinnias are always a good choice for a cut garden, they will add a bit of color to your space.
Zinnias are among the favorites for growing in a cut garden, easy and cool.
Asters are timeless for cut gardens, they come in various colors and look nice.
Salvia is a cool cut plant and just look how amazingly it can accent your fence.
Calendula is a pretty cut garden flower that will attract bees to the space.
Dianthus are adorable bright blooms for those who want a cut garden, not that typical but super cool.
Pastel Delphiniums are amazing for a cut garden, they will fill your space with delicate colors.
How To Cut Flower Stems?
Harvest cut flowers when it is cool outside, either early in the morning or later in the evening. Place your flowers immediately in a bucket/vase of cool water and let them sit at least a few hours before you work with them. When cutting, aim to cut deep on the plant. This encourages more branching and blooms, and ultimately longer stems.
Cut-and-come-again plants, like zinnias and basil, will keep producing and flowering the more you cut them. They benefit from pinching, so cut the tops of the plant off above a set of leaves when it is at least 6 to 12 inches tall. This will encourage it to branch out and give you more flowers.
Consider companion planting before you choose blooms for your cut garden, so that they didn't prevent each other from growing.
Create cut gardens so that they looked pleasing both inside and outside your house.
Compose a fantastic cut blooming garden with pink, orange and yellow blooms.
Blush roses and blue delphinium are a pastel match made in heaven! Your garden will look extremely romantic.
Pair up roses, zinnias and phlox to get a super bold cut garden and enjoy fresh blooms whenever you want.
This long curve is a cut garden with various dahlias and roses, it also lines up the path to make it wow.
Simple and not that formal cut flowers are also welcome! They require less maintenance and attract pollinators.
Your front yard can also become a cut garden, this one is a spring bulb space with tulips and daffodils.
Various Phlox will fill your garden with colors and will make it cooler. Besides, they look nice in vase arrangements.
This extra bright meadow style garden is a cut flower one, with non-typical blooms.
Asters are nice cut flowers for a garden, they look fresh, light and cool and can be rocked as fillers.
Zinnias can be paired with dahlias and you can achieve such a delicate blush and white look in the space.
Pair up zinnias and phlox to make your garden extra bright. Later they will infuse your indoor spaces with colors, too.
Bold dahlias and phlox are what you need for an easy to grow cut garden. (via urbancomfortstpete).
The colorful garden is done with multiple shades and greenery and it looks wow with a lake view. (via shiplapandshells).
Extra bright phlox can become an accent in your garden, they are tall and colorful. (via quietjoyathome).