I love zinnias, and all of these we can start from seeds. So including the website I got the information from if you want to order from them. I will still plant some when we get the front flower bed cleared up. So still planting, as always our flower beds are the last to get done. Just like the cobblers children's shoes. For us in the midwest stay cool, drink fluids and this will pass soon I hope.
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Plant a Summer Cutting Garden
It's that time again: The time for summer parties and BBQs, leisurely evening dinners on the patio and basking in the warm breezes and happy sunshine of summer. This is when a cutting garden feels like having a treasure chest in your back yard. A homegrown bouquet is the perfect final touch for your table, and the most thoughtful and appreciated host or hostess gift you could possibly offer.
There are lots of colorful, easy-to-grow bouquet flowers that you still have time to direct-sow and grow in your garden this year. Whether you add them to your established beds and borders or give them their own dedicated plot, you'll be so glad you planned ahead for wonderful arrangements all summer long.
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Classic Cutting Garden Flowers to Direct-Sow Now!
These colorful options will yield armloads of blooms for bountiful summer bouquets. Find a full list of flowers you can direct-sow now HERE.
Sunflowers
Easy to grow in bright sunlight, our varieties have smaller centers and unusual color combinations. Direct-sow every three weeks for continual blooms throughout the summer.
SHOP FOR SEEDS HERE.
Zinnias
This old-fashioned annual is easy to grow and is considered a standard in summer bouquets and gardens. Seed directly into the garden after the last frost date in the spring.
SHOP FOR SEEDS HERE.
Cosmos
A favorite cottage garden annual from yesteryear, Cosmos is an easy-to-grow self-seeder that thrives in virtually any soil. Prized as a romantic cut flower, Cosmos prefers to be direct-seeded.
SHOP FOR SEEDS HERE.
Celosia
A real multi-tasker in either its spear-shaped or traditional plume and cockscomb forms, Celosia is wonderful for garden display, fresh bouquets and use as a dried flower in fall.
SHOP FOR SEEDS HERE.
Lace Flower
If you love wild Queen Anne's Lace, you'll adore Lace Flower. It's a distant cousin that is more suited to the garden, with stout stems of lacy, feathery foliage topped with large, dense domes of tiny white flowers that are exceptional in summertime bouquets.
SHOP FOR SEEDS HERE.
Tree Mallow
This annual is a stunning, long-lasting cut-flower with abundant trumpet-shaped, satiny blooms. Erect shrub-like plants produce many long stems: cut them with just two flowers in bloom: the additional buds will continue to open in bouquets that can last up to twelve days.
SHOP FOR SEEDS HERE.
taken from kitchengardenseeds@kitchengardenseeds.com Till next time, this is Becky Litterer, Becky's Greenhouse, Dougherty, Iowa
Fruits & Vegetables | Herbs | Flowers | Web Specials | Cookbook | Horticultural Tips | In Focus
Plant a Summer Cutting Garden
It's that time again: The time for summer parties and BBQs, leisurely evening dinners on the patio and basking in the warm breezes and happy sunshine of summer. This is when a cutting garden feels like having a treasure chest in your back yard. A homegrown bouquet is the perfect final touch for your table, and the most thoughtful and appreciated host or hostess gift you could possibly offer.
There are lots of colorful, easy-to-grow bouquet flowers that you still have time to direct-sow and grow in your garden this year. Whether you add them to your established beds and borders or give them their own dedicated plot, you'll be so glad you planned ahead for wonderful arrangements all summer long.
~
Like us on Facebook for flash alerts of Website Specials that include prized selections from among our 500+ collection of gourmet fruit & vegetable, herb and flower seeds. You'll love our Direct-Sow Bouquet Flower Garden.
Classic Cutting Garden Flowers to Direct-Sow Now!
These colorful options will yield armloads of blooms for bountiful summer bouquets. Find a full list of flowers you can direct-sow now HERE.
Sunflowers
Easy to grow in bright sunlight, our varieties have smaller centers and unusual color combinations. Direct-sow every three weeks for continual blooms throughout the summer.
SHOP FOR SEEDS HERE.
Zinnias
This old-fashioned annual is easy to grow and is considered a standard in summer bouquets and gardens. Seed directly into the garden after the last frost date in the spring.
SHOP FOR SEEDS HERE.
Cosmos
A favorite cottage garden annual from yesteryear, Cosmos is an easy-to-grow self-seeder that thrives in virtually any soil. Prized as a romantic cut flower, Cosmos prefers to be direct-seeded.
SHOP FOR SEEDS HERE.
Celosia
A real multi-tasker in either its spear-shaped or traditional plume and cockscomb forms, Celosia is wonderful for garden display, fresh bouquets and use as a dried flower in fall.
SHOP FOR SEEDS HERE.
Lace Flower
If you love wild Queen Anne's Lace, you'll adore Lace Flower. It's a distant cousin that is more suited to the garden, with stout stems of lacy, feathery foliage topped with large, dense domes of tiny white flowers that are exceptional in summertime bouquets.
SHOP FOR SEEDS HERE.
Tree Mallow
This annual is a stunning, long-lasting cut-flower with abundant trumpet-shaped, satiny blooms. Erect shrub-like plants produce many long stems: cut them with just two flowers in bloom: the additional buds will continue to open in bouquets that can last up to twelve days.
SHOP FOR SEEDS HERE.
taken from kitchengardenseeds@kitchengardenseeds.com Till next time, this is Becky Litterer, Becky's Greenhouse, Dougherty, Iowa
