Enjoy a Cutting Garden
Gathering tulips (plus daisies, snapdragons and lavender) from your backyard or at a you-pick farm fills vases -- and the soul.
Good annuals for bouquets
Try these annuals along with the perennials listed on the previous slide for beautiful cutting-garden plants.
Annuals
Calliopsis
Cleome
Cosmos
Gladiolas
Larkspur 'Giant Imperial'
Snapdragons 'Rocket'
Sunflowers 'Sunrich Orange', 'Velvet Queen' or 'Sunrich Lemon'
Tricolor sage
Verbena bonariensis
Zinnias 'Benary's Giants', 'Oklahoma' or 'State Fair'
For more information on any flowers, check out the Plant Encyclopedia on our sister site, bhg.com.
Do you have a favorite cutting-garden flower or a you-pick flower farm near you? Tell us about it in the Comments section below!
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