Bouquet Season
Now that I have a large garden and the plants are starting to mature, I can cut bouquets to have on the table most of the spring/summer/fall. With the deer pressure, I’m thinking of turning the potager into a dedicated cutting garden. No vegetables can be grown there because it would need fenced in. Thus, instead of a greens/soft fruit garden, it will be flowers. Now I’m thinking about what vareties of things I want to add there, I’m thinking mostly perennials in that space with any annual cut flowers to be grown in the vegetable garden. (the peonies in this bouquet are: Duchess du Nemours (white), Sara Bernhardt (light pink), and lotus peony of unknown variety (dark pink in back).
We have a local greenhouse that has fields of peonies, I’m thinking of heading up there this weekend to see what they have that blooms later than the ones I have in the garden. Mine are pretty much gone. While I have other things blooming, I could use a few more peonies that bloom later. The best way to find that is to visit local gardens with peonies. When we lived in Ohio, I loved visiting Kingwood Center to see their peony beds in bloom.
What are you cutting in the garden to enjoy indoors this week?
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I have a large dedicated cutting garden, plus other things out and about.
This week I have blooming:
glads
zinnias
Kiss me over the Garden Gate,
Butterfly weed
4 at least kinds of Shasta Daisies
Echinacea
obiedent plant
verbena bonariensis
sunflowers
lilies-several varieties
yarrow-2 colors
campanula
Lysmachia clethroides or Gooseneck loosestrife
monarda
I have lots of things very very close like my ornamental goldenrod, cosmos, celosia, Babies Breath.
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