Who doesn’t enjoy gathering a beautiful bouquet of flowers and foliage from your yard to bring inside? Ahh, the beauty of bringing the outside in! Anyone can successfully grow a garden for cutting, whether it’s a big garden bed overflowing with many colors and shapes of flowers and foliage or incorporating a small planting of zinnias in an existing bed. The cutting garden’s size depends on your available space and the time you have to maintain it. It is not a garden grown for show or display, although it will be a riot of colors and textures, but to cultivate flowers for your home or to share.
The cutting garden can include shrubs, perennials and annuals. Shrubs and perennials can provide diverse flowers and foliage during their seasons of bloom. One of my favorite perennials to grow for a long cutting season is Sedum Autumn Joy. In summer, the large flower bud…
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