For
many of us, a secondary way to enjoy of our
gardens comes from snipping off blooms and
bringing them into the house. People who have a
lot of room in their landscapes often set aside
space in a vegetable garden to grow rows of
flowering plants specifically for cutting.
However, many of us do not have such a luxury so
the next best thing is to incorporate these
plants into our beds and borders. Of course, you
will probably not want to cut off all the
blooms from a plant at any one time but, rather,
just take a few and leave the rest to fulfill
your design intent in your beds and borders.
There are tons and tons of ornamental plants in
the landscape that can provide beautiful flowers
that do well when cut and placed in a vase.
These would include annuals, perennials and
shrubs for sure and you might find a few trees
and vines that would work also. Here is a
rookie's sampling of plants that are known to
work well as cut flowers.
