Amazing cut flowers for your backard

A cut flower bed – a dedicated area for growing cut flowers – allows you to enjoy your own home-grown blooms from late winter to late fall.

If you like to bring the outside in, pick a few flowers from your garden to admire on the kitchen table, or add atmosphere to a dinner party, then consider starting a small cut flower garden.

There’s no denying that blooms generally last longer outside. Once they are cut, their lifespan is often shortened, leading many gardeners to leave them outside to enjoy and instead purchase imported flowers from around the world. However, this is expensive and creates a disconnect from the seasonal moment that is happening right outside in our back gardens.

• Plant a cut flower garden
For a dedicated cut flower bed, find a spot where you can create a few long, linear beds measuring about three feet by three feet. A meter wide is perfect and provides easy access for planting, weeding and picking throughout the bed without having to walk on it. Ideally, this room should get a lot of sun. Use one bed for annuals and one for perennials.

Next, consider taking the “no-dig approach” to creating your beds. This method is best for soil health and ultimately results in happier and healthier blooms. Alternatively, you may prefer the look of raised beds. There are many great suppliers, but you can also make your own scaffolding from recycled scaffolding boards.

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Best cut flowers for the cut garden

1. Ageratum

Botanical name: Ageratum houstonianum

Also known as floss flower, Its fine-haired, velvety and lavender to purple flowers are an eye-catcher.

2. Alliums

Botanical name: Leek

Although onions, shallots and garlic belong to the Allium family, it also includes many types of ornamental flowers that can be grown as cut flowers. You can find their names here.

3. Aster

Botanical name: Astereae

This daisy-like perennial has star-shaped flower heads. This beautiful cut flower blooms in summer and autumn in colors of blue, purple, white, red and pink.

4. Bird of paradise

Botanical name: Strelitzia reginae

It lives up to its name with the striking colors and unusual shape of the flowers, which look like a bird is about to fly.

5. Black-Eyed Susan

Botanical name: Rudbeckia hirta

These golden yellow beauties are commonly found in open fields in North America from June to October.

6. Shining stars

Botanical name: Liatris spicata

The long, strong flower stalks make it one of the best cut flowers.

7. Ranunculus

Botanical name: Ranunculus

Ranunculus are popular with florists and wedding bouquet designers.

8. Cloves

Botanical name: Dianthus caryophyllus

These flowers have long been used to express feelings for loved ones and are particularly in demand for Valentine’s Day.

9. Chinese lantern

Botanical name: Physalis alkekengi

The green-colored, papery pods turn a pretty bright shade of orange and look like a lantern.

10. Cosmos

Botanical name: Cosmos bipinnatus

The evenly spaced petals in pink, red, white, lavender, orange or chocolate give it an elegant look.

11. Daffodil

Botanical name: daffodil

There are many legends about this flower and it usually blooms in early spring and spring.

12. Dahlia

Botanical name: dahlia

If you thought we might miss itsplendid‘ Dahlias in this list of Cutting flowers-Here we are!

13. Gladiolus

Botanical name: gladiolus

The flower head is mounted on tall flower stalks over 90 cm high and has a color range from garnet red, pink, yellow, cream and coral to green.

14. Heath

Botanical name: Calluna vulgaris

Protection, happiness and loneliness are some of the qualities that heather symbolizes. Traditionally the flowers were used in Swedish herbal medicine.

15. Lace flower

Botanical name: Ammi majus

Clusters of small white flowers cover the greenery when it blooms. As a cut flower it looks magnificent and has a vase life of around 10 days.

16. Larkspur

Botanical name: delphinium

It is popular with florists due to the vertical arrangement of the showy purple to blue flowers on the stems.

17. Lavender

Botanical name: Lavandula

The fragrant flowers offer a wide range of uses in the craft, culinary and medical sectors. Learn how to grow lavender.

18. Large-flowered tick seed

Botanical name: Coreopsis grandiflora

If size is important to you, choose this large daisy-like flower that will brighten your mood with its bright color.

19. Lily

Botanical name: Lilium

There are many varieties of lilies you can grow to add to your floral arrangements, but oriental lilies are best for fragrance.