Plant Suggestions for a Beautiful and Magnificent Cutting Garden
April 26, 2023 2023-04-26 15:16Plant Suggestions for a Beautiful and Magnificent Cutting Garden
Plant Suggestions for a Beautiful and Magnificent Cutting Garden
Having a backyard cutting garden is a wonderful way to have a source of fantastic floral arrangements for your home or a supply of gifts for special occasions.
There are numerous types of cutting gardens, ranging from casual to formal to casual, depending on your personal. No matter what your style, there are three things to consider before planning your garden:
- Maintenance – if planned properly, your garden will need very little maintenance other than deadheading and cutting flowers. Keep in mind, some plants will require staking, trellising and netting and those plants should be placed in an accessible area. Mulching is recommended to retain soil moisture and discourage weeds or you can plant your flowers closely.
- Blooming Times – Scatter your plantings by blooming seasons, plant type (perennials, biennials and annuals). As one season ends, the next season’s flowers will take over a beautiful flowering display. As annuals need replacing year after year, they should be planted together so they can be easier to remove at the end of the growing season.
- Flower Assortments for Color Variations – Be mindful of the color varieties of you plants not only for color productivity but visual appeal.
Make sure the proposed planting area has well-draining and loose soil, receives adequate sun exposure and free of weeds and rocks. Also, attention will need to be considered for the plants spacing and height and placement.
Listed below are cutting garden plant recommendations:
Foliage Plants:
| Coleus Common Wormwood Coral Bells Dusty Miller Lady’s Mantle Lamb’s Ears Lavender Plantain Lilies Sage Thorow Wax | Plectranthus scutellarioides Artemisia Heuchera Jacobaea maritima Alchemilla Stachys byzantine Lavandula Hosta Salvia Bupleurum | Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial | Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub Shrub |
Flowering Plants:
| Amaranth Aster Baby’s Breath Bee Balm Bells Of Ireland Blanket Flower Blazing Star Bleeding Heart Blue False Indigo Chamomile Cock’s Comb Coneflower Cornflower Cosmos Columbine False Goat’s Beard Foxglove Goldenrod Icelandic Poppy Iris Japanese Anemone Larkspur Lily Lupine Peony Phlox Pincushion Flower Prairie Gentian Purple Coneflower Queen Anne’s Lace Sage Sea Holly Shasta Daisy Snapdragon Statice Sunflower Sweet Pea Sweet William Tickseed White Laceflower Yarrow Zinnia | Amaranthus Aster Gypsophila Monrada Moluccella Laevis Gaillardia Liatris Dicentra Baptisia australis Matricaria chamomilla Celosia Rudbeckia Centaurea cyanus Cosmos Aquilegia Astilbe Digitalis Solidago Papaver nudicaule Iris Anemone hupehensis Delphinium Lilium Lupinus Paeonia Phlox Scabiosa Lisianthus Echinacea purpurea Ammi Maju Salvia Eryngium planum Leucanthemum Antirrhinum Limonium Helianthus annuus Lathyrus odoratus Dianthus barbatus Coreopsis Orlaya grandiflora Achillea millefolium Zinnia | Perennial Perennial Annual Perennial Annual Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Annual Annual Perennial Annual Annual Perennial Perennial Biennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Perennial Biennial Perennial Annual Biennial Perennial Perennial Annual Biennial Annual Annual Biennial Biennial Annual Perennial Annual | 1-2’ 1-6’ 6” to 6‘ 1-4’ 1-3’ 1-3’ 1-3’ 6-12’ 3-5’ 3-6” 6-12” 2-4’ 2-2 ½’ 2-3’ 1-3’ 1-3’ 3-5’ 2-6’ 1-2’ 1-3’ 2-3’ 1-3’ 2-6’ 1-4’ 3’ 2-4’ 6”-1’ 8”-1’ 2-4’ 3-4’ 2-4’ 2–3’ 1-2’ 1-3’ 1-1 ½’ 5-10’ 5-10’ 1-2’ 1-3’ 2-3’ 1-3’ 1-4’ | Summer-Frost Late Summer-Fall Summer-Fall Summer-Fall Spring-Summer Summer-Fall Summer-Fall Spring-Summer Spring-Summer Summer-Fall Summer-Fall Summer-Fall Spring-Fall Summer-Fall Spring-Summer Summer Spring-Summer Summer-Fall Spring-Summer Spring-Summer Summer-Fall Summer-Fall Spring-Fall Spring-Summer Spring-Summer Spring-Fall Spring-Fall Summer-Fall Summer-Fall Summer-Fall Summer-Fall Summer-Fall Summer-Fall Spring-Fall Summer-Fall Summer-Fall Spring-Summer Spring-Summer Summer-Fall Summer-Frost Spring-Fall Summer-Fall |
Spring Flowering Bulbs:
Alliums
Daffodils
Hyacinth
Ranunculus
Tulip
Summer Flowering Bulbs:
Calla Lilies
Dahlias
Gladiolus
There are also numerous flowering trees and shrubs that can be utilized in a cutting garden which offer spectacular blooms such as:
Trees:
Cherry
Cherry Laurel
Crepe Myrtle
Dogwood
Evergreens
Japanese Maple
Magnolia
Shrubs:
Azalea
Butterfly Bush
Camelia
Forsythia
Hollyhock
Hydrangea
Lilacs
Mock Orange
Rose of Sharon
Roses
Sedum
Spirea
Veronica
Viburnum
Weiglia
