Plant a Cut Flower Garden

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Cut flower gardens; also referred to as cutting gardens are planting beds grown primarily for harvesting foliage, flowers and seed heads to make beautiful bouquets and flower arrangements to bring a piece of the outdoor landscape to the indoors. Select a nice location alongside a garage or at the back of your property. If there isn’t a space available to designate specifically for cut flowers, plant a variety of cut flowers throughout your vegetable garden or landscape. You will continuously cut the flowers and foliage to make bouquets, which makes a veggie garden a great space to incorporate your cutting garden. Some herbs with colorful foliage are very aromatic and make beautiful additions to garden bouquets.

Great plant selections:

• Aster
• Purple coneflower
• Black-eyed susan
• Shasta daisies
• Iris
• Peony
• Coral bells
• Hosta
• Fern
• Roses
• Hydrangea
• Yarrow
• Ornamental grasses
• Allium
• Astilbe
• Annuals, bulbs and so many more!

Get creative. Plant your garden with spring, summer and fall blooms and pay attention to the foliage in your garden. Hosta, coral bells and fern leaves make great foliage fillers for flower arrangements.  Your plant palette will change throughout the seasons and you will have an ever-changing display of colors and textures. Contact Crimson Valley; our landscape consultants will meet with you to gather all of your landscaping wishes. Our designers will layout your plan to incorporate all of your ideas and capture it in a fully functional and beautiful garden design. We will help you determine the best location for your cut flower garden and any other features you may want displayed in your landscape and garden.