top 5 seasonal perennials for your cut flower garden

top 5 seasonal perennials for your cut flower garden

A fresh bouquet from your own garden adds a sense of beauty and peace to any room or space.  With a little planning, you can include in your garden some spring, summer, and fall blooming perennials that you can enjoy from spring through fall both inside and out.

 

Here are our top 5 picks for each of your seasonal perennial cutting gardens: 

Spring Blooming:

            Iris

            Peonies

            Baptisia

            Daisies

            Anemone

Summer Blooming:

            Cone Flowers

            Bee Balm

            Garden Phlox

            Lavender

            Blazing Star

Fall Blooming:

            Asters

            Sedums

            Globe Thistle

            Black Eyed Susan

            Butterfly Weed

Good fillers any season:

            Hosta leaves

            Ferns

(An FYI – 2 perennials that are beautiful in the garden but do not last in fresh bouquets are daylilies and hibiscus – leave them in the garden to enjoy.)

Read more about cut flower gardens:

Things to Consider When Planning Your Perennial Garden

6 Simple Tips to Make Your Own Fresh Flower Arrangements

5 Must Have Prairie Plants

What's Blooming 8.8.19

What’s Blooming 8.8.19

It’s hard to believe it’s been 2 months since the last post about What’s Blooming at Natural Plus Nursery.

I love these posts, because who doesn’t love to look at photos of beautiful blooms?!

I also love to use these posts to help me plan my landscape to ensure blooms in my yard all season long. Just simply look back on the previous months to help you decide what to plant to get blooms in May and June.

Many varieties of daylilies available at Natural Plus Nursery

CINDERELLA MILKWEED: A favorite of butterflies

CONEFLOWERS

BLACK EYED SUSAN or RUDBECKIA

Read about more Prairie Plants favorites HERE

AUTUMN JOY SEDUM: A butterfly and bee favorite

GLOBE THISTLE

Previous What’s Blooming Posts:

6.20.19

5.22.19

What's Blooming: 5/22/19

I know the weather hasn’t been feeling like spring, but the blooms at the nursery and around town are telling us otherwise!

Here’s a round up of some of the things that are blooming at the nursery, in my yard, and around town!

First up, creeping phlox. The top left picture was taken on Main Street in Clear Lake. They are putting on quite the show right now!

I’m sure we’ve all noticed the Crab trees around town in all their glory. I just wish they would last longer!

Lilacs are blooming! And they smell so good! Want to add some fragrance to your landscape? Here’s an article to get you started HERE

Daffodils and irises make a lovely combination.

And an old classic, the bleeding heart, pic taken from my yard.

So many beautiful blooms right now and we are just getting started!

What’s blooming in your yard?