Designing a Stunning Cut Flower Garden  

Designing a Stunning Cut Flower Garden Design

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Discover expert tips & tricks for designing a stunning cut flower garden. Learn how to choose the right flowers, create a beautiful layout, and maximize blooms for gorgeous bouquets all season long.

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Planning for Continuous Color There are a few ways we can plant for continuous color and blooms so something is always growing and changing from spring to fall..

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Sequential Blooming Plan your garden by bloom time, ensuring you have flowers maturing at different times. Spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils, summer flowers like sunflowers and zinnias, and fall blooms like tithonia and celosia should be staggered to cover the entire season.

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Succession Planting This technique involves planting seeds at different times rather than all at once. By staggering planting dates, you can extend the blooming period of certain flowers like sunflowers and stock.

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Foliage and Fillers Adding foliage and filler plants like ferns, eucalyptus, Dara, Bells of Ireland, Baby’s Breath, or ornamental grasses can provide background and contrast for your flower arrangements, as well as fill in gaps as other plants go in and out of bloom.

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Peak Planning: Focus on having a diversity of plants that peak during mid-summer, which is when your garden will likely be at its most visible and when most traditional garden flowers are at their best. Zinnias, dahlias, and cosmos are great examples of peak summer blooms.

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Garden Maintenance Regular maintenance, such as rotating out older plants and introducing new varieties, can revitalize your garden’s appearance and productivity. Pruning and deadheading spent blooms encourages plants to produce more flowers rather than seeds.

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