Cut flowers for every season
- BBC Gardeners' World Magazine
Published: Sunday, 28 July 2019 at 1:51 pm
We recommend what plants to grow for beautiful cut flowers, all year round.
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Growing cut flowers has never been more popular. Home-grown flowers are cheap, colourful and long-lasting, and involve no 'flower miles'.
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The key to growing cut flowers is to make the most of the seasons. With a little careful planning, you can produce a huge and varied range of blooms to enjoy all year round.
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Here's a selection of plants that you can use in arrangements throughout the year – grow them in your borders, or in a dedicated cut flower garden.
Early spring
Cut flowers for every season - hellebores
Early spring: apple blossom, bergenia, camellia, daphne, garrya, hazel catkins, hellebore (pictured), Lonicera x purpusii, primrose, polyanthus.
Late spring
Cut flowers for every season - peonies
Late spring: aquilegia, Campanula persicifolia, euphorbia, garrya, honesty, lilac, lily-of-the-valley, peony (pictured), philadelphus, stocks, sweet rocket, sweet William, tulips and wallflower.
Early summer
Cut flowers for every season - alstroemeria
Early summer: Acanthus mollis, agapanthus, alstroemeria (pictured), astilbe, astrantia, aquilegia, bupleurum, centaurea, gypsophila, helenium, lavender, Salvia x sylvestris 'Mainacht', scabious, sweet rocket, sweet William.
Late summer
Cut flowers for every season - cosmos
Late summer: agapanthus, alstroemeria, astrantia, ceanothus, cosmos, dahlia, echinacea, eryngium, Japanese anemone, lavender, penstemon, phlox, red hot poker, scabious, stachys, thalictrum, tree peony, Verbena bonariensis, zinnias.
Early autumn
Cut flowers for every season - dahlias
Early autumn: chysanthemum, dahlia (pictured), Japanese anemone, Michaelmas daisy, penstemon, red hot poker, rosemary, rudbeckia, hesperantha, Verbena bonariensis.
Late autumn
Cut flowers for every season - chrysanthemum
Late autumn: chrysanthemum (pictured), hypericum, ornamental grasses, Prunus x subhirtella 'Autumnalis', hesperantha.
Winter
Cut flowers for every season - daphne
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Winter: acacia, bergenia, daphne (pictured), hazel catkins, garrya, hellebore, Lonicera x purpusii, ornamental grasses, Prunus x subhirtella 'Autumnalis', sarcococca, viburnum.
When to pick cut flowers
Pick flowers in the morning if possible, when their stems are full of water and they are not under stress from the heat of the day. Otherwise, wait until the evening.
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