Easiest Flowers to Plant to Start a Cutting Garden
Cutting gardens are a great way to grow a variety of flowers specifically for cutting and bringing indoors to enjoy. If you are considering starting a cutting garden, you may be wondering which flowers are the easiest to grow, most popular and reliable for the home garden.
Here are some of the most popular types of flowers for cutting gardens:
Celosia - Chester Copperpot
We’ve been working on Chester over the last 6 growing seasons, perfecting the color and texture. Colors in this mix range from coppery orange, soft gold, muted orange, to deep magenta red. This is the perfect celosia variety if you’re looking for more muted fall colors for your design work, or for fall bouquets. It’s an easy seed to get started and often likes to self seed from season to season, which is an added bonus!
2. Scabiosa
Scabiosa is a delicate, lovely flower that adds a soft, airy detail to a bouquet. We grow these beautiful flowers in succession, so we always have a few in bloom to make beautiful bouquets. We also love this flower, because it’s perfect to use for botanical dyeing. It makes a lovely periwinkle blue color as a botanical dye.
3. Zinnia Benary's Giant
Zinnias are a must have at our farm because of how tough and productive they are. They love the intolerable heat and humidity of a midwest summer. Once established, this flower just keeps giving blooms. Benary’s Giant provides a bloom large enough to work as a focal flower for our season bouquets. Oftentimes they help us through times when there aren’t any other focal flowers to pick from to use in bouquets, which makes them a nice bridge flower to use during seasonal
4. Strawflower
Strawflower is gorgeous in bouquets any time of year. The fun straw-like texture of the blooms is a fun tactile experience. Strawflower adds airiness into mixed bouquets, or for design work for weddings and other events. It’s also great as a dried flower to be used for various crafts. This is a must-have addition to the cut flower garden.
5. Sunflower
Sunflowers forever! There’s something so cheerful about sunflowers in a bouquet. They’ve been a true customer favorite for several years, whether they’re bunched into a bouquet by themselves, or added to mixed bouquets. Vincent’s Choice & Vincent’s Fresh is a favorite for later season bouquets, typically after July 1st.
6. Salvia
Salvia is one of our favorite pops of color in our seasonal mixed bouquets. The little pops of vibrant blue/purple add a lot of contrast of color and interest with their shape and texture. It’s a flower we consider a ‘sparkle’ addition that seems to be the perfect finishing touch.
By choosing a variety of these popular flowers, you can create a cutting garden that will provide you with a beautiful and abundant supply of flowers to enjoy all season long. Happy gardening!
In this video, we go over the easiest cut flowers to start your flower farm or even just get started growing flowers in your garden. Starting a flower farm can sometimes feel overwhelming. We hope these videos help you simplify the process into bite-size chunks. Learn about the top easy-to-grow cut flowers, such as marigolds, celosia, zinnias, cosmos, basil, etc. Get our advice, and use these stunning blossoms to enrich your arrangements.
