I hate to admit it,
but I don't often do flower arrangements. I always intend to, but you know how
it is when you have endless garden chores. And I'm not very artistic. And the
house needs cleaning. And shouldn't the flowers stay in the garden, in case I
have to give a tour?
But
for some people, the whole point of the garden is to grow flowers for cutting.
In general, anything with a long stem and a long vase life can be used for
cutting. This list only includes the flowers that can be grown from seed and
are available for sale on this website. I divided the list into annuals and
perennials. Most perennials bloom the second year from seed, but some will
bloom the first year if they are started early indoors. Biennials are included
with the perennials.
Annual
Cut Flowers
Blue
Woodruff
Bupleurum
Calendula
Centaurea
(Cornflower)
Cerinthe
(Honeywort)
Chinese
Forget-me-not
Cleome
Cosmidium
Cosmos
Lavatera
Nigella
(Love-in-a-Mist)
Rudbeckia
(Black Eyed Susan)
Snapdragon
Sweet
Pea
Tithonia
(Mexican Sunflower)
Zinnia
Perennial
Cut Flowers
Agastache
(Anise Hyssop)
Allium
(Flowering Onion)
Aster
Campanula
(Bellflower)
Coreopsis
Delphinium
Dianthus
(Pinks, Sweet William)
Digitalis
(Foxglove)
Echinacea
(Purple Coneflower)
Eryngium
(Sea Holly)
Feverfew
Gaillardia
Geum
Gypsophila
(Baby's Breath)
Hesperis
(Sweet Rocket)
Knautia
Lavender
Liatris
(Blazing Star)
Lilium
(Lily)
Lychnis
Penstemon
Platycodon
(Balloon Flower)
Thalictrum
Verbena
Tips
for Extending Vase Life
1.
Cut the flowers in the early morning, using sharp, clean garden shears. Don't
use scissors, which crush the stems. Bring a plastic bucket or pitcher of water
to put the flowers in as soon as they are cut.
2.
Recut the stems right before putting them in the vase. Cut at a 45 degree
angle. Remove any foliage that is below the level of the water.
3.
Fill the vase with lukewarm water, which is easier for the flowers to absorb.
It should be between 100 and 110 degrees. You can add a commercial preservative
to the water, or make your own using 1 quart of water with 1 teaspoon bleach, 1
teaspoon sugar, and 2 teaspoons lemon juice. This recipe is from the Brooklyn
Botanic Garden.
4.
Keep flower arrangements away from fruit, which produces ethylene gas that
shortens the vase life of the flowers.
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This is Diane Linsley from Diane's Flower Seeds. I noticed that you stole many of the articles off my website and reprinted them here without my permission. I want them removed from your site immediately. Do you know that when you reprint pages from other sites, it damages the search engine results for both sites? Besides that, my articles are copyrighted, and I spent many long hours creating them. You should be writing your own articles, not stealing other people's creative work.
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