Thank you so much for the mention Erin! What a WONDERFUL list of cut flowers! I love your sentiment at the end. Cheers to guilt free cut flowers! Thanks again!
My mom never understood how I could cut flowers from the garden. I made her understand that many of the varieties produce all summer. You must enjoy your blooms indoors as much as in the garden! Great information.
Great video geared to those of us who consider ourselves average home gardeners! Nowadays everyone seems to want to open a cut flower business but some of us just enjoy the beauty we cultivate ourselves.
I have always had a hard time cutting flowers to bring inside; untill my kids started asking if they could cut bouquets for next to their beds. Now I smile when I see one of them take off towards the garden with a pair of snips. ❤️
I love how real you are when chatting with all of us! I also love how you didn't snub the big box dahlias ... so many gardeners have different price points and it's great that there are options for everyone. Thanks for making me smile!
I cut flowers to take to work, because let's face it, we need some joy at the workplace. And, that video you did of sowing poppy seeds still sticks in my head of you dropping them in the snow and telling us ok done pretty much. Cracks me up. I so appreciate how you keep it real. Thanks so much for the inspiration.
My focus has always been growing flowers I can cut and bring into my house to enjoy and to grow a veggie garden. However, my NEW focus is growing SOLELY a flower garden to attract hummingbirds, of which 2021 I finally witnessed my first after living here over 10 years. So now no more veggies (too many bugs) and now planted hundreds of flower bulbs, I am so excited to see what flowers this year and attracts more hummingbirds, I PRAY. I do understand they are territorial.
I'm planting a lot more flowers for hummingbirds also!! I live in Uruguay and I have seen one that comes by every day so I want to make him come and stay around. seems to be enjoying my agapanthus
I've seen a bunch near Arkansas and Missouri. One lately since they fly away for winter. They shouldn't chase off any bees or anything if that's what you meant lol Theyll just have a quick skirmish with other hummingbirds anyway
I’ve always grown for flowers, as I love to have cut flowers in vases, and I love to give bouquets as gifts. I’m going to start growing more veggies. I did one small bouquet last summer, and counted 15 different varieties once it was done. So pretty. I even put hosta leaves and flowers in my bouquets. I love your channel.
I agree with you about sweet peas and cosmos! I get flowers from the cosmos until the first frost. I have a very small garden and try to have something blooming from January--yes! Daffodils--until Oct-and the cosmos. You are right--I believe they should be cut because I will see the bouquet on my counter 100 times today and maybe only one time if I leave them in the garden.
Great list of cut flowers! I was so surprised at the number of people who were hesitant to cut flowers, even at my You Pick last year. I guess I’ve never had that issue as I adore having flowers inside.🌷
Before COVID, I used to go into the office I would bring bouquets of flowers in to cheer people up and put them on their desk. It made them so happy. It would start with peonies and irises and whatever was in the garden blooming into frost. I really did not realize the impact what a gift of flowers meant to to somebody. It made be feel good too. I hope I inspire somebody to do this toooooo!!!!!!!!!
Here in my Ohio zone 6 garden, my snap dragons have been over wintering, both in pots and on the ground around the pots. They come back in all kinds of colors and are amazing! 😸
My garden is so much more magical now that I’ve been growing cut flowers !! I only direct sow now as well,dahlias,zinnias,sunflowers,cosmos,statice,ammi,calendula,I’m sure I have like 10 more !! Love you Love your channel ❤️🌻🌸
I agree that the joy of growing flowers is bringing them inside. I would add spring bulbs to your list. I have cut flowers from spring till the last of the fall season. Also Floret has a great book about cut flowers ,how to grow. How long they last i a vase etc. very good book for ones Libary
Last year was the first time I started cutting my flowers for indoor bouquets. I started enjoying my garden more and looking forward to what was in bloom for me to cut and place in a vase. Northlawn Flower Farm really helped my flower arranging game.
Thank you once again for another super helpful video Erin! My husband and I are putting in our first cut flower garden and I can’t be more excited! One flower I’ll for sure be planting is amaranth. It took me 15 years to love them and now I can’t imagine my garden without them. 💚
I was surprised you didn’t have roses on your list. The ultimate guilt free cut flower! The more you cut the more you get. Roses were my introduction to cut flowers! Every flower I grow is a cut flower! Lol I want pretty outside and I want pretty inside! God knew what he was doing when he created the flower (and everything else) but he certainly went above the call of duty with the flower!💐🌸🌺🌾🌻🌼🌹🌷🥀❤️
Oh my goodness: “dusty flowers that end up in potpourri” is exactly what I’ve always thought about strawflowers too. 😂 I haven’t tried them yet, but I’ve been softening toward them.
I’m all about zinnias! Every season, I buy at least five different varieties. Unfortunately, I’m losing sun in my garden due to neighbor’s trees but I still plant them and now put some in pots on my porch. Would love to grow dahlias, but the voles wiped me out two years in a row, so I gave up. Keep on cutting! ❤️
I can’t seem to grow dahlias either, but I think it’s more that it basically goes from winter to summer here in my 9b microclimate. As soon as they’re big enough to bloom it’s so hot that they die. 😥
You're so right about snapdragons. My chantilly snapdragons were the first to bloom (June) and didn't stop until they were covered in snow in November haha
An added bonus on the cosmos is their foliage! I grew them for the first time last year and didn't love the actual flowers (the bugs ate them, they required too much time dead-heading, etc.) but I will grow them again this year just so I have that unique foliage to tuck into my cut flower arrangements. I don't care if I don't get a single flower, just love that foliage texture!
I only have a few flowers in my backyard due to the extreme heat and because I work full time/grandmother to 7 year old twin boys…..the few flowers which bloom I pick! I even take to my office to enjoy since I’m at the office the majority of the day.
Thanks for a great (and timely) video -- I am adding some of your suggestions to my seed order. Until last year I gardened on a terrace with limited sun so any blooms I managed to eke out were staying in the garden. Now I have big planting beds so I am going to be planting plenty of flowers for cutting. Last year we dug up an old decrepit tennis court and I threw a handful of sun flower seeds into the unimproved ground. Generally did quite well but I learned one thing: if you have deer, plant the sunflowers that branch and have multiple blooms rather than those that produce only a single stalk. If the deer come by and nosh off the buds, more will grow.
Loved this video. I grow most mybflowers for my house and to give away. Saying that I grow so many I'm going to have a small flower stand this year. Enjoy your day! 🌸💗🌸
I appreciate this video as I started to grow my own flowers for cutting. I was previously buying flowers almost every week and thought it was crazy not to grow my own.
I struggle getting anything to grow in my flower beds so I have a hard time cutting anything to bring into the house. I will admit though my two flower beds that I have just started weren’t started the right way so that’s why I feel I’m struggling with them. I don’t have money to bring in yards of compost and mulch so I do the best I can with what I do have. I guess for me it’s slow and steady, so maybe someday I’ll win the race. Thank you Erin for showing us your beautiful flower selection! ☃️💚🙃
So excited for this video!! I've wanted to have a cut flower garden for 10 years, and I just figured out where to put it, this winter! So excited for spring!!! Thank you for this video!!!!
I love cut flowers but they make me sad when they fade away so I tend to leave my blooms on the plants so they last as long a possible! But you really make a good argument for growing more for bouquets!!!
this is excellent! Thank you. My favorite flower for my cutting garden is lisianthus- easy to grow, blooms early and goes all season. Beautiful flower and long lasting in the vase. I am puzzled why more people don't grown it!!
Making arrangements from the garden is my favorite way to experiment with texture and color. Annual phlox is another good one. Started blooming 60 days after being started from seed (so mid-May) and it continued basically until frost. And they are beautifully fragrant, which makes arranging with them even more fun!
I felt the same way about cutting until last year. I got a community garden plot and started a lot of seeds indoors, including flowers. Zinnias, sunflowers, and Sahara rudbeckia surrounded the plot! I had little vases of flowers all around my kitchen 🥰. The night of our first killing frost I had my flashlight and cut everything that was left blooming lol. The Sahara even made it through the night. Great video ☺️
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas for cut flowers. Like you, my wife and I enjoy the gardens for providing ourselves and our friends with cut flowers. Thanks for all you do to encourage us to grow beautiful flower gardens!
Hi Erin, I’ve just heard Laura from garden answer mention your channel.. So I’ve popped across for a peek. And I’ve really enjoyed your video . Thank you for very good information. Thanks from Scotland 🏴 Xxx
One of my absolute must haves is Anise Hyssop, it looks so beautiful in arrangements and in the garden! Bonus that it’s edible and has a wonderful almost vanilla quality to it!
Thanks for the information about nigella. I love them but did have trouble starting early and transplanting. I have a package of seeds I didn't plant last year so I'll try direct sowing. Also trying snapdragons for the first time this year. I grew Love Lies Bleeding amaranth a few years ago and I thought it was very easy to start early indoors but now they just pop up anywhere they like. Good thing I like them and the winter birds love the tiny seeds. I'm growing more flowers because of your channel.
I'm planting 60 bulbs of gladiolus specifically for cuting, also asters and zinnias. Planting gladiolus 10 bulbs every week trough month and half so they last me for cutting almost all summer.
My mom always grew cut flowers, many of the varieties on your list. I still remember a special Red Wing Pottery "tree trunk" vase would grace our table filled with zinnias or snapdragons. I'm looking at said vase I filled with a grocery store bouquet. Yep, I inherited Mom's vase.
THANK YOU for the reminder of strawflowers! I immediately paused and went over to Johnny's Seeds to put them in my cart. I'm really curious to try them. Thanks!
I’m so inspired to plant some flowers just for cutting this year. I ordered some seeds before watching this video and am glad to see that they were all suggested by you (zinnias, sweet peas, sunflowers, and dahlias). I’m going to plant them within my beds, not dedicated cut garden beds, so looking for more inspiration on that. I think that’s how you do yours, right?
The majority of the plants I grow from seed are to cut, and yes, it's hard! Zinnias were the easiest, the more I cut, the more blooms I got. I also grow a ton of daffodils...so I can cut them. Never go to a friends house without a bouquet of flowers for them. Not a flower farmer but love to follow them...great shout out to Northlawn Flower Farm and Flower Hill Farm!
Thank you for this very insightful video Erin. I actually watched it twice with a pad and pen in hand the second time around. I’m excited about trying some other annual flower seeds besides the usual ones I plant every year (zinnias, cleome and cosmos). Your presentations of all of your garden knowledge is always so user friendly and greatly appreciated.
did you arrange the bouquets in this video? they are beautiful!i will be growing cut flowers this yr for myself and also my 4 kids age 1 to 6 to cut from and give away.last yr i had a newborn so only had a few so i m excited for this yr!i want to have vases on the windowsill above my kitchen sink overflowing with flowers💐💐💐💐💐💐daffadills are also great cut flowers i planted 125 bulbs this yr. my husband has a tradition of picking me a dafadill bouquet as so as they bloom so always the first bouqet of the seoson 😊also planted a lilac last yr and cant wait for that to bloom! when we were dating hed bring me giant bouqets of lilacs from his moms shrub so that will be great to have this yr as well!💘👩❤💋👨💃😁
I have gardened 40 years and last year I grew flowers to cut and enjoy🙄🥴😉but thank goodness I did I’ll never not cut and bring inside! The children and grandchildren were always allowed to pick them (although it kinda felt wrong lol) but I seldom cut myself! Hallelujah I’ve seen the light what a joy !! Now I plant pick and give away !!Gardening Joy!
I have always loved bringing my blooms inside. They take on a whole other personality in a vase/container. Great post of flowers. I have never frien ageratum from seed, might have to try that this year. I love watching Nicole on Flower Hill Farms.
Sunflowers are great for wildlife, especially locally native ones. The woodland sunflower is a shorter rough-leaved perennial sunflower that tolerates part-shade. It's adapted for forest edges.
Great advice and list of flowers ! For the first time last summer I pinched my zinnias and oh my God they became huge and took over my small garden! The birds and butterflies were all over them! I sure will repeat that but will move them away from my vegetable garden this time. I have never grown cosmos. Think it looks more like a wildflower to me but I may try this year. Dahlias are the best and also gladiolas I love to grow them too. Sweet peas are one of my favorite childhood flowers. I can still smell that sweet perfume every time someone mentions them but here in the south I can’t grow them to save my life. Too hot and humid. Thank you for this list. I sure will try some new ones this year!
Yes! I started a cut flower garden last year for all the reasons you named (except selling), and I just loved being able to pick guilt free. Aside from the dahlias, the one flower everyone commented on was the Black Beauty Scabiosa. Thanks, Erin! I always love your recommendations.
Great video! It’s nice to think about what to grow while waiting for winter to end. Most of these are on my must grow list. Now just a few more months till I can plant them
I already have seeds (or tubers ordered) for every flower on your list except strawflowers! Dare I purchase 1 more packet of seeds? This year, I will do better at cutting the flowers rather than just admiring them in the garden. Great video!
I had a small cutting garden last season and the sunflowers were great. Got 10 feet tall. When I started seeing the goldfinches feeding on them I felt bad taking them inside. I plant my garden for the wildlife as much as for me so it seemed wrong. Finally decided we could share and I would buy them lots of seed over the winter. Do you have experience with Alstroemeria? I got a cheap bunch of them at the Kroger and they are beautiful.
I live in zone 5 b and because of your exuberance on dahlias,I’ve ordered a few more. Last year was my first year growing. I started them in pots and because of very dry May and June they didn’t flower until late August early September. This year I might have around 60 bulbs should I plant them directly in the ground or start them in pots again. Just wondering when they should start blooming. Thanks for all your info. I watch all your UA-cam videos.
Thank you so much for the mention Erin! What a WONDERFUL list of cut flowers! I love your sentiment at the end. Cheers to guilt free cut flowers! Thanks again!
You deserve it! You are one of my favorite cut flower growers to watch!
Hello Danielle 💐
THOSE SNAPDRAGONS are absolutely heaven
😊💐✂️Great picks! Thanks for the shoutout 😊 Is spring coming yet?? I’m ready!
During these challenging times the one thing that gave me so much joy was cutting flower bouquets for my 83yr old neighbour every week or so. 💐
I bet you neighbor just loved that so much. What a sweet thing to do.
@@TheImpatientGardener This Fall she gifted me her deceased husband's indoor grow shelf and lighting set up 😭😭😭😭. Gardening was his passion. 💓
My mom never understood how I could cut flowers from the garden. I made her understand that many of the varieties produce all summer. You must enjoy your blooms indoors as much as in the garden! Great information.
Great video geared to those of us who consider ourselves average home gardeners! Nowadays everyone seems to want to open a cut flower business but some of us just enjoy the beauty we cultivate ourselves.
I have always had a hard time cutting flowers to bring inside; untill my kids started asking if they could cut bouquets for next to their beds. Now I smile when I see one of them take off towards the garden with a pair of snips. ❤️
Danielle at Northlawn flower farm is a goddess. I learn so much from her videos. Plus The Impatient Gardene
Yes! I bring inside foliage, herbs, flowers…everything!
I agree, those 2 UA-cam channels you mentioned at the begining are VERY good to learn more on growing flowers for cutting and selling 👍 😀 👏 👌
I love how real you are when chatting with all of us! I also love how you didn't snub the big box dahlias ... so many gardeners have different price points and it's great that there are options for everyone. Thanks for making me smile!
I cut flowers to take to work, because let's face it, we need some joy at the workplace. And, that video you did of sowing poppy seeds still sticks in my head of you dropping them in the snow and telling us ok done pretty much. Cracks me up. I so appreciate how you keep it real. Thanks so much for the inspiration.
My focus has always been growing flowers I can cut and bring into my house to enjoy and to grow a veggie garden. However, my NEW focus is growing SOLELY a flower garden to attract hummingbirds, of which 2021 I finally witnessed my first after living here over 10 years. So now no more veggies (too many bugs) and now planted hundreds of flower bulbs, I am so excited to see what flowers this year and attracts more hummingbirds, I PRAY. I do understand they are territorial.
Last summer I discovered how much hummers here love tithonia. Put them on your list if you’ve not grown them yet. :)
I'm planting a lot more flowers for hummingbirds also!! I live in Uruguay and I have seen one that comes by every day so I want to make him come and stay around. seems to be enjoying my agapanthus
I've seen a bunch near Arkansas and Missouri. One lately since they fly away for winter. They shouldn't chase off any bees or anything if that's what you meant lol Theyll just have a quick skirmish with other hummingbirds anyway
I’ve always grown for flowers, as I love to have cut flowers in vases, and I love to give bouquets as gifts. I’m going to start growing more veggies.
I did one small bouquet last summer, and counted 15 different varieties once it was done. So pretty. I even put hosta leaves and flowers in my bouquets. I love your channel.
I agree with you about sweet peas and cosmos! I get flowers from the cosmos until the first frost. I have a very small garden and try to have something blooming from January--yes! Daffodils--until Oct-and the cosmos. You are right--I believe they should be cut because I will see the bouquet on my counter 100 times today and maybe only one time if I leave them in the garden.
Great list of cut flowers! I was so surprised at the number of people who were hesitant to cut flowers, even at my You Pick last year. I guess I’ve never had that issue as I adore having flowers inside.🌷
Before COVID, I used to go into the office I would bring bouquets of flowers in to cheer people up and put them on their desk. It made them so happy. It would start with peonies and irises and whatever was in the garden blooming into frost. I really did not realize the impact what a gift of flowers meant to to somebody. It made be feel good too. I hope I inspire somebody to do this toooooo!!!!!!!!!
I love that so much. The smallest things can make such a difference.
Here in my Ohio zone 6 garden, my snap dragons have been over wintering, both in pots and on the ground around the pots. They come back in all kinds of colors and are amazing! 😸
I grew Love in a Mist first time too. I think I started indoors. Yes, it came up everywhere. And I helped! Hoping it comes back!
So true about the snapdragons - they are still in my garden. Absolutely gorgeous flowers!
I was hoping you would mention the Northlawn Flower Farm channel as I learn so much from Danielle.
My garden is so much more magical now that I’ve been growing cut flowers !! I only direct sow now as well,dahlias,zinnias,sunflowers,cosmos,statice,ammi,calendula,I’m sure I have like 10 more !! Love you Love your channel ❤️🌻🌸
I agree that the joy of growing flowers is bringing them inside. I would add spring bulbs to your list. I have cut flowers from spring till the last of the fall season. Also Floret has a great book about cut flowers ,how to grow. How long they last i a vase etc. very good book for ones Libary
Last year was the first time I started cutting my flowers for indoor bouquets. I started enjoying my garden more and looking forward to what was in bloom for me to cut and place in a vase. Northlawn Flower Farm really helped my flower arranging game.
Thank you once again for another super helpful video Erin! My husband and I are putting in our first cut flower garden and I can’t be more excited! One flower I’ll for sure be planting is amaranth. It took me 15 years to love them and now I can’t imagine my garden without them. 💚
You have a knack for changing minds about flowers. I wasn’t fond of either amaranth or straw flowers….until this video. Go figure. 🤷🏼♀️🌱💚
I was surprised you didn’t have roses on your list. The ultimate guilt free cut flower! The more you cut the more you get. Roses were my introduction to cut flowers! Every flower I grow is a cut flower! Lol I want pretty outside and I want pretty inside! God knew what he was doing when he created the flower (and everything else) but he certainly went above the call of duty with the flower!💐🌸🌺🌾🌻🌼🌹🌷🥀❤️
Oh my goodness: “dusty flowers that end up in potpourri” is exactly what I’ve always thought about strawflowers too. 😂 I haven’t tried them yet, but I’ve been softening toward them.
HAHA is potpourri even still a thing?? i remember it being EVERYWHERE back in the day!
I’m all about zinnias! Every season, I buy at least five different varieties. Unfortunately, I’m losing sun in my garden due to neighbor’s trees but I still plant them and now put some in pots on my porch. Would love to grow dahlias, but the voles wiped me out two years in a row, so I gave up.
Keep on cutting! ❤️
That's a bummer about the dahlias. I'm trying them for the first time this year. From SEED 😱 I hope I can grow them with little or no issues.
I can’t seem to grow dahlias either, but I think it’s more that it basically goes from winter to summer here in my 9b microclimate. As soon as they’re big enough to bloom it’s so hot that they die. 😥
You're so right about snapdragons. My chantilly snapdragons were the first to bloom (June) and didn't stop until they were covered in snow in November haha
An added bonus on the cosmos is their foliage! I grew them for the first time last year and didn't love the actual flowers (the bugs ate them, they required too much time dead-heading, etc.) but I will grow them again this year just so I have that unique foliage to tuck into my cut flower arrangements. I don't care if I don't get a single flower, just love that foliage texture!
Alstromeria is a good one too.
I only have a few flowers in my backyard due to the extreme heat and because I work full time/grandmother to 7 year old twin boys…..the few flowers which bloom I pick! I even take to my office to enjoy since I’m at the office the majority of the day.
Thanks for a great (and timely) video -- I am adding some of your suggestions to my seed order. Until last year I gardened on a terrace with limited sun so any blooms I managed to eke out were staying in the garden. Now I have big planting beds so I am going to be planting plenty of flowers for cutting. Last year we dug up an old decrepit tennis court and I threw a handful of sun flower seeds into the unimproved ground. Generally did quite well but I learned one thing: if you have deer, plant the sunflowers that branch and have multiple blooms rather than those that produce only a single stalk. If the deer come by and nosh off the buds, more will grow.
Loved this video. I grow most mybflowers for my house and to give away. Saying that I grow so many I'm going to have a small flower stand this year. Enjoy your day! 🌸💗🌸
Such a great point about garden up close.
I appreciate this video as I started to grow my own flowers for cutting. I was previously buying flowers almost every week and thought it was crazy not to grow my own.
I struggle getting anything to grow in my flower beds so I have a hard time cutting anything to bring into the house. I will admit though my two flower beds that I have just started weren’t started the right way so that’s why I feel I’m struggling with them. I don’t have money to bring in yards of compost and mulch so I do the best I can with what I do have. I guess for me it’s slow and steady, so maybe someday I’ll win the race. Thank you Erin for showing us your beautiful flower selection! ☃️💚🙃
I started with a pollinator garden. Then, found myself taking some flowers inside to enjoy too. Thank you for this video!❤️
So excited for this video!! I've wanted to have a cut flower garden for 10 years, and I just figured out where to put it, this winter! So excited for spring!!! Thank you for this video!!!!
I love cut flowers but they make me sad when they fade away so I tend to leave my blooms on the plants so they last as long a possible! But you really make a good argument for growing more for bouquets!!!
this is excellent! Thank you. My favorite flower for my cutting garden is lisianthus- easy to grow, blooms early and goes all season. Beautiful flower and long lasting in the vase. I am puzzled why more people don't grown it!!
Making arrangements from the garden is my favorite way to experiment with texture and color. Annual phlox is another good one. Started blooming 60 days after being started from seed (so mid-May) and it continued basically until frost. And they are beautifully fragrant, which makes arranging with them even more fun!
I felt the same way about cutting until last year. I got a community garden plot and started a lot of seeds indoors, including flowers. Zinnias, sunflowers, and Sahara rudbeckia surrounded the plot! I had little vases of flowers all around my kitchen 🥰. The night of our first killing frost I had my flashlight and cut everything that was left blooming lol. The Sahara even made it through the night. Great video ☺️
Fantastic tutorial! You are a great teacher, always learn great things from you! Thank you!
You nailed it! “Don’t cut that. The garden look will be ruined”. Great advice. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas for cut flowers. Like you, my wife and I enjoy the gardens for providing ourselves and our friends with cut flowers. Thanks for all you do to encourage us to grow beautiful flower gardens!
Hi Erin,
I’ve just heard Laura from garden answer mention your channel..
So I’ve popped across for a peek.
And I’ve really enjoyed your video .
Thank you for very good information.
Thanks from Scotland 🏴
Xxx
Such a helpful video, Erin. Thank you so much!
Great list of cut flowers, Erin! I’m adding a couple more to my already long list!
What a gorgeous intro picture!
One of my absolute must haves is Anise Hyssop, it looks so beautiful in arrangements and in the garden! Bonus that it’s edible and has a wonderful almost vanilla quality to it!
I bought sweet pea seeds solely on the way you described them in your past video, can’t wait to experience them!
Thanks for the information about nigella. I love them but did have trouble starting early and transplanting. I have a package of seeds I didn't plant last year so I'll try direct sowing. Also trying snapdragons for the first time this year. I grew Love Lies Bleeding amaranth a few years ago and I thought it was very easy to start early indoors but now they just pop up anywhere they like. Good thing I like them and the winter birds love the tiny seeds.
I'm growing more flowers because of your channel.
Thank you Erin! Great list.
Good video. Lots of good information. I watch Danielle on Northlawn Flower Farm also. She's taught me a lot about cut flower gardens too.
I'm planting 60 bulbs of gladiolus specifically for cuting, also asters and zinnias. Planting gladiolus 10 bulbs every week trough month and half so they last me for cutting almost all summer.
My mom always grew cut flowers, many of the varieties on your list.
I still remember a special Red Wing Pottery "tree trunk" vase would grace our table filled with zinnias or snapdragons.
I'm looking at said vase I filled with a grocery store bouquet. Yep, I inherited Mom's vase.
Great video. And your flower arrangements are beautiful 💕
THANK YOU for the reminder of strawflowers! I immediately paused and went over to Johnny's Seeds to put them in my cart. I'm really curious to try them. Thanks!
I love em. I got a pack from dollar tree. Just seeded them all over. They all came up.They just kept going! I'm now in love.
I’m so inspired to plant some flowers just for cutting this year. I ordered some seeds before watching this video and am glad to see that they were all suggested by you (zinnias, sweet peas, sunflowers, and dahlias). I’m going to plant them within my beds, not dedicated cut garden beds, so looking for more inspiration on that. I think that’s how you do yours, right?
The majority of the plants I grow from seed are to cut, and yes, it's hard! Zinnias were the easiest, the more I cut, the more blooms I got. I also grow a ton of daffodils...so I can cut them. Never go to a friends house without a bouquet of flowers for them. Not a flower farmer but love to follow them...great shout out to Northlawn Flower Farm and Flower Hill Farm!
I am planting many of these this year to cut. Also growing mahogany splendor hibiscus, and Gomphrena
Thank you for this very insightful video Erin. I actually watched it twice with a pad and pen in hand the second time around. I’m excited about trying some other annual flower seeds besides the usual ones I plant every year (zinnias, cleome and cosmos). Your presentations of all of your garden knowledge is always so user friendly and greatly appreciated.
I just love your videos. I don't even know how to explain why but they are so enjoyable
Such great information totally growing all of these!!
did you arrange the bouquets in this video? they are beautiful!i will be growing cut flowers this yr for myself and also my 4 kids age 1 to 6 to cut from and give away.last yr i had a newborn so only had a few so i m excited for this yr!i want to have vases on the windowsill above my kitchen sink overflowing with flowers💐💐💐💐💐💐daffadills are also great cut flowers i planted 125 bulbs this yr. my husband has a tradition of picking me a dafadill bouquet as so as they bloom so always the first bouqet of the seoson 😊also planted a lilac last yr and cant wait for that to bloom! when we were dating hed bring me giant bouqets of lilacs from his moms shrub so that will be great to have this yr as well!💘👩❤💋👨💃😁
Taste and knowledge , two things that are short supply. thank you for your videos and help
Thank you, now I'm excited to try my hand on Cosmos again. 🌸
I have gardened 40 years and last year I grew flowers to cut and enjoy🙄🥴😉but thank goodness I did I’ll never not cut and bring inside! The children and grandchildren were always allowed to pick them (although it kinda felt wrong lol) but I seldom cut myself! Hallelujah I’ve seen the light what a joy !! Now I plant pick and give away !!Gardening Joy!
I have always loved bringing my blooms inside. They take on a whole other personality in a vase/container. Great post of flowers. I have never frien ageratum from seed, might have to try that this year. I love watching Nicole on Flower Hill Farms.
I'm totally carving out some space for cut flowers this year! Thank you for the recommendations!
Fabulous list! Thank you Erin. 💝
Oh I’m just so excited!!! I will be growing cut flowers this year.
I've never tried growing from seed. I think this will be the year. 😁
Sunflowers are great for wildlife, especially locally native ones. The woodland sunflower is a shorter rough-leaved perennial sunflower that tolerates part-shade. It's adapted for forest edges.
China asters especially the valkyrie variety are cool for cutting also
Grew those for the first time last year and they were beautiful
Strawflowers will be ordered immediately. I only ordered one.pack earlier and need more, especially the peach and apricot!
Great advice and list of flowers ! For the first time last summer I pinched my zinnias and oh my God they became huge and took over my small garden! The birds and butterflies were all over them! I sure will repeat that but will move them away from my vegetable garden this time. I have never grown cosmos. Think it looks more like a wildflower to me but I may try this year. Dahlias are the best and also gladiolas I love to grow them too. Sweet peas are one of my favorite childhood flowers. I can still smell that sweet perfume every time someone mentions them but here in the south I can’t grow them to save my life. Too hot and humid. Thank you for this list. I sure will try some new ones this year!
Could you maybe grow sweet peas in the winter??
Yes! I started a cut flower garden last year for all the reasons you named (except selling), and I just loved being able to pick guilt free. Aside from the dahlias, the one flower everyone commented on was the Black Beauty Scabiosa. Thanks, Erin! I always love your recommendations.
Yes the Scabiosa! Easy to start from seed and pretty in arrangements:)
Great down to earth ideas
Thanks for the tips!
Great video! It’s nice to think about what to grow while waiting for winter to end. Most of these are on my must grow list. Now just a few more months till I can plant them
Very lovely information Garden tips
Thanks Erin!!!!! Such great info, so excited to try all of these 😊
Thank you so much for making this video! 😊
Such great info on direct sow!!! Thanks
I already have seeds (or tubers ordered) for every flower on your list except strawflowers! Dare I purchase 1 more packet of seeds? This year, I will do better at cutting the flowers rather than just admiring them in the garden. Great video!
Excellent video with lot of information
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Great video, Erin! Love your choices.
Great video! I’m trying cosmos for first time this year!
I had a small cutting garden last season and the sunflowers were great. Got 10 feet tall. When I started seeing the goldfinches feeding on them I felt bad taking them inside. I plant my garden for the wildlife as much as for me so it seemed wrong. Finally decided we could share and I would buy them lots of seed over the winter.
Do you have experience with Alstroemeria? I got a cheap bunch of them at the Kroger and they are beautiful.
I live in zone 5 b and because of your exuberance on dahlias,I’ve ordered a few more. Last year was my first year growing. I started them in pots and because of very dry May and June they didn’t flower until late August early September. This year I might have around 60 bulbs should I plant them directly in the ground or start them in pots again. Just wondering when they should start blooming. Thanks for all your info. I watch all your UA-cam videos.
Please try wintersowing strawflower. More I cut them also the more they bloomed, all year basically almost!
Great choices and video!
Snapdragons surprised me last year. They lasted through quite a few frosts.
Wow😲🤩😍
. Can winter sow snapdragons too in water jugs. I do both inside and out
Thanks Erin! It's always like this , you plant and then you don't want to cut them....I don't know why we are like this....🙃 Hugs
I hope you will answer my question, but how do you keep deer out of your flowers? Thank you and I love your channel.