If you enjoy vases filled with flowers filled with flowers in your house, you cannot bare your flower beds, you need a chopped flower garden. What can be better than the continuous rotation of fresh bouquets, with bloom you increase yourself?
We have put some basic steps together to start you and you can enjoy the arrangement of almost a year of flowers from your garden.
Why start a cut flower garden?
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A lot of work goes to make a beautiful flower garden. If you want to enjoy your efforts with floral arrangements, you are likely to end with some bare garden spots until you plan to cut your flowers, especially your flowers. An additional advantage of chopped flower garden is Attracts pollinators into your yard,
Depending on your USDA Hardness Zone, starting a cut flower garden you can get about a year -long flowers for arrangement.
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How to plan a cut flower garden
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When planning a sliced ​​flower garden, always keep in mind that when they come, many blooms are intended to remove; When this happens, be sure to guess some bald spots here and there.
Location and layout
S Flowers can be grown in rows like traditional botanical gardens, in raised beds, Or in containers.
Make sure you can easily reach each different types of flowers for cutting. Consider the height of the plants that you are sowing – you do not want the small plants to be shared by long because they will not get enough sunlight and it will be more difficult to get them to cut them.
Another layout option is keeping the plants in the order that they expect to bloom: in the initial season, mid-season or later season. You can try to avoid bare patches by smiling flowers with different blooms within the same bed.
Select plants
Fill your chopped flower garden with flowers you like! If you are a sunflower worshiper or lavender lover, plant them. As you are choosing plants for your garden, just consider those that are particularly long to bite, breed with strong stems. Seed packets often indicate these selections with a scissors icon. Some flower varieties are very low for most vases or do not last long after cutting.
Don’t forget to plant some non-blimming plants for your beautiful leaves. Fern, ornamental grass, collaus, dust filled millers, decorative keels, and herbs, such as basil and dill, create great filler for arrangements.
This is a good idea to make plants group from their light, soil and water needs. Combining plants with uniform growing requirements will help you give you all those they need and will help prevent or reduce them.
Many gardeners choose Annual Because they grow rapidly and bloom throughout the season. However, perennial and flower shrubs can be the backbone of your garden as they will return year -to -half and will provide leaves even when there is no bloom.
Flowers to add a severed flower garden
As you choose plants for your cut flower garden, study the characteristics of the plant in online or seed catalog before planting. Look for varieties that will perform well in your growing fields and varieties, which will catch well after being severed and organized once.
Spring Blooms
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Summer blooms
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Fall
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Winter blooms and berries
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