The agony of choice
Everyone has their favorite flowers, but many people find sweet peas indispensable in the cut flower garden. They require trellis support and can take up a third of the flower bed, but with their fantastic fragrance and long blooming season, they are truly high-end cut flowers—and they also last a long time in a vase.
Stars in the cut flower garden
- Each of these top performers in the cut flower garden is:
easy to grow from seed - known for a long flowering period
- a wonderful partner for bouquets in a vase
A tall annual ornamental plant with white, umbrella-shaped flowers that add airy elegance to bouquets. It blooms for almost three months, from early June to late August.
Choose one of the many smaller, multi-flowered varieties. They provide you with long-lasting blooms on numerous stems from June to early October. How about the cream-colored 'Vanilla Ice' or the rust-red 'Red Sun' variety?
A must-have in any cut flower garden. The sweetly scented blooms grow in prodigious abundance in summer – almost faster than you can cut them.
Scabiosa (Scabiosa)
Attractive, ruffled flowers on long stems in pastel to purple. Try: 'Mirage' in subtle pink-tinged apricot or 'Black Knight' in dark magenta-purple
