Cut Flower Gardening
Tips for growing from garden to vase
So many reasons to garden: attracting birds, cooking with homegrown ingredients, supporting pollinators, sustaining the planet and getting outdoors. One of our favorites? Growing for cut flowers. Here’s our best advice—from selecting plants to grow to designing beds to prepping and arranging blooms—from local northern gardening pros.
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Best Plants to Grow for Cut Flowers
Here are five superstar plants guaranteed to give you the cut flower garden of your dreams.
7 Unexpected Plants to Grow for Cut Flowers
Don’t overlook these lesser-known plants that’ll spice up any arrangement.
Native Plants to Grow for Cut Flowers
Beyond their value in the garden and larger ecosystem, many natives make excellent additions to bouquets.
Shrubs, Perennials and Houseplants to Grow for Filler
Coming soon!
4 Cut Flower Garden Designs
Betsy Maloney Leaf’s beds are packed full of blooming annuals, herbs, woodland plants and native flowers.
How to Cut, Condition and Arrange Fresh-Cut Blooms
Pro tips (and a how-to video!) for creating your own knockout arrangements.