Top 15 Cut flowers and 8 Foliage Plants To Grow This Year
Growing a cutting flower garden for the last four years has brought so much happiness. It began with a few wooden crates and has quickly moved to several flower beds. The joy of growing flowers, bringing them inside our home and sharing with the family has been amazing.
In the last few years, I have seen some plants perform really well in the garden and then last year not grow so well with too much rain. I hope this list might help you to get started with a cutting garden or perhaps just add a few new additions to your garden.
For my top-performing fifteen flowers, I have chosen the constants of my flower garden. These are great when cut for vase life and for an abundance of flowers. To see more on cutting and conditioning cut flowers the RHS has a good article to help prolong vase life.
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| Homegrown Zinnia Giant Red With Bee |
Top Fifteen Cutting Flowers To Grow 2020
These are in no particular order but they give an abundance of flowers and were some of the first flowers I grew on the flower garden.
- Dahlia Brown Sugar
- Zinnias Giant mixed
- Cosmos Cup Cake Blush
- Dahlia Linda’s Baby
- Mixed Cut Flower Seeds (Sarah Raven)
- Icelandic poppies Sherbert Mix Papaver nudicaule
- Zinnia ‘Early Wonder Mixed’
- Sunflowers ‘Helianthus annus ‘Sonja’
- Dahlia ‘Bishops Children’
- Stocks ‘Vintage Antique Mix’
- Icelandic Poppies Giant Peach Paver Nudicaule
- Ranunculus Picotee Pink
- Calendula officinalis ‘Indian Prince’
- Red Parrot Tulips
- Peter Beals Rose ‘Desdemona’
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| August 2019 Flower Bed Two |
For my top eight to grow foliage plants, I selected on what works really well when making homegrown flower arrangements and bouquets. See 18 Easy Flower Arrangement Ideas to fill your home for more inspiration on filling your home with flowers.
Top Eight Foliage To Grow This Year
- Cerinthe major ‘purpurascens’
- White daisy flowers
- Orlaya grandiflora (white Lace Flower)
- Euphorbia Oblongata (Eggleaf Spurge)
- Eucalyptus gunnii Azura (Cagire)
- Moluccella Laevis (Bells of Ireland)
- Amaranthus caudatus ‘Viridis’ (Love-lies-bleeding)
- Ammi Majus
I live on Hayling Island in Hampshire Uk, which is a 9a Zone. Look here to find your British planting zone https://www.trebrown.com/hrdzone.html or here is a plant hardiness global zone useful when thinking about the types of flower and foliage to grow. Although weather patterns are definitely changing so I do try and test my own flowers to see if how they grow.
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| Dahlia Brown Sugar Homegrown DIY Bouquet |
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