Planning a Flower Cutting Garden - TO DO

TO DO: Pick Up ... Hosta, Peony & Rose plants
and Cosmos seeds

I have all the other perennial flowers in my garden already! Lucky Me!!! AND I just remembered I've ordered morning glory, sweet pea, and 4 kinds of poppy ... heheh



Cosmos are easy to grow from seeds or from transplants. Their feathery foliage is as pretty as their flowers


Hybrid teas (Hybrid Tea Rose), like 'Brigadoon', shown here, are beloved for their wonderful range of colors and classic high-centered, tapered buds. The flowers are large and bloom on long stems that make them unmatched for cutting. They are often repeat bloomers, producing flowers all summer and fall. Fragrance ranges from none at all to intensely fragrant, depending on the cultivar. Other types of roses, notably shrub roses, are excellent for cutting, as well.


Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) - Reliable, and easy to grow and maintain, purple coneflower bears daisylike flowers in abundance from midsummer to the first fall frost on strong stems from 2 to 4 feet tall. The pink, white, or lavender blooms consist of drooping petals surrounding a raised golden brown cone; they're excellent for cutting and attract birds and butterflies to the garden.


Bearded iris (also called German iris) provides a striking vertical accent with its stiff sword-shaped leaves. Flower colors run the rainbow from deep burgundy red to pastel pinks and yellows, to every shade of blue and violet. Other types of iris, such as Siberian iris, are also good cut flowers.


An elegant flower, glads have tall spikes crowded with ruffled flowers that face the same direction and open from the bottom of the stem up. Because they are not hardy in the North, glads must be dug in the fall for replanting the following spring.


Often sweetly fragrant, the peony is a very long-lived plant that forms 2- to 4-foot-tall clumps in shrublike bunches. Its numerous varieties offer a wide range of colors, and blooming periods from late spring to early summer. They also come in several different shapes: single, double, Japanese (single with large yellow centers), and anemone (like the Japanese, with a powder-puff center).


Garden phlox grows 3 to 4 feet tall and bears large trusses of fragrant flowers from summer to early fall. It's an old-fashioned favorite that has few rivals for its color display and light, sweet fragrance. It's well suited to the back of the garden and cottage gardens.


Hostas are no-fail plants for adding bright color to shady gardens. Hanky Panky is a showy selection with green leaves that have narrow white borders outlined widely in bold chartreuse.