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Cut Flower Guide
Cut Flower Guide

Creating a vibrant cut flower garden involves selecting the right mix of annuals, perennials and shrubs. Annuals provide a vibrant burst of color and continuous blooms throughout the growing season, while perennials offer a reliable return of flowers year after year. Shrubs, often overlooked, add structure and longevity to arrangements, providing both beautiful blooms and interesting foliage. By thoughtfully combining these three plant types, you can create a cutting garden that yields a diverse and abundant supply of flowers from early spring until late fall.

Below, we’ll introduce you to a vibrant assortment of annual, perennial and shrub varieties that will produce fantastic blooms for your cut flower arrangements. You’ll also find some awesome cut flower tips from gardening pros like Natalie Keeton of Northlawn Flower Farm and garden influencer Casey Lynn Lawrence.

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Get The Look With Casey Lynn Lawrence

If you follow Casey on Instagram, you know her fondness for brilliant, bountiful blooms and penchant for design. Her backyard pergola provided an ideal setting for a garden tea party. Along with creating a variety of stunning bouquets with her friends, Casey also put up a beautiful vining garland and decorated it with cut flowers to create a lush living frame for her outdoor dinner setting.

Check out Casey’s tips for creating her show-stopping vining garland below.

Materials

• Cut hydrangea flowers with stems
• Grapevine
• Step stool
• Clippers
• Mini vase or floral tubes
• Wire
• Jute

Casey’s Tips

1. Strip off the leaves quickly. This is easiest to do immediately after harvest.
2. If you go on a wild harvesting mission, bring a friend to hold your ladder and to help you wrangle vines or branches.
3. Shape it quickly before it dries. This is especially important for grapevine, willow which are much more flexible right after harvest.
4. Make bundles with jute or wire before attaching to your frame. This step is extra helpful if you’re using small branches or grasses.

ANNUALS FOR CUT FLOWERS
ANNUALS FOR BLOOMS

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ANNUALS FOR FOLIAGE

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PERENNIALS FOR CUT FLOWERS
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Spring Flowers

Summer Flowers

Fall Flowers

Winter Flowers

Spring Foliage

Summer Foliage

Fall Foliage

Winter Foliage

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Danielle Keeton

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10 Tips for Long-Lasting Cut Flowers

With Danielle Keeton

As a small scale cut flower farmer at Northlawn Flower Farm, Danielle Keeton knows a thing or two about designing bouquets. Using her grandmother’s antique pin frog, she composes artful arrangements using flowers grown in her certified pollinator-friendly garden. She intentionally allows a few of the blooms to spill over the sides of the vessel to create an air of abundance and organic richness. Placing the same type of flower with varying stem lengths throughout the arrangement brings balance even in asymmetrical designs.

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