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Top 15 Cut flowers and 8 Foliage Plants To Grow This Year

  • 19.1.20

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.

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.
  1. Dahlia Brown Sugar 
  2. Zinnias Giant mixed
  3. Cosmos Cup Cake Blush
  4. Dahlia Linda’s Baby
  5. Mixed Cut Flower Seeds (Sarah Raven)
  6. Icelandic poppies Sherbert Mix Papaver nudicaule
  7. Zinnia ‘Early Wonder Mixed’
  8. Sunflowers ‘Helianthus annus ‘Sonja’
  9. Dahlia ‘Bishops Children’
  10. Stocks ‘Vintage Antique Mix’
  11. Icelandic Poppies Giant Peach Paver Nudicaule
  12. Ranunculus Picotee Pink
  13. Calendula officinalis ‘Indian Prince’
  14. Red Parrot Tulips
  15. Peter Beals Rose ‘Desdemona’ 
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
  1. Cerinthe major ‘purpurascens’ 
  2. White daisy flowers
  3. Orlaya grandiflora (white Lace Flower)
  4. Euphorbia Oblongata (Eggleaf Spurge)
  5. Eucalyptus gunnii Azura (Cagire)
  6. Moluccella Laevis (Bells of Ireland)
  7. Amaranthus caudatus ‘Viridis’ (Love-lies-bleeding)
  8. 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.

Dahlia Brown Sugar Homegrown DIY Bouquet
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Pick Your Own Flower Events - Family Activities and Fun

  • 17.1.20

We love to pick your own flower events and Sams Sunflowers on Hayling Island with the golden sunflowers and expanse of blue skies was a perfect afternoon.
Sams Sunflowers Hayling Island
We also like to visit Selborne Lavender fields on their open days. Although this is not a pick your own event it is a lovely day out as there are drinks and you can visit the lavender shop too. You can also take a little picnic and sit on the edge of the fields for a lunchtime rest.
Family at Lavender Fields Open Day Selbourne Hampshire
Lavender Fields in Selborne Jacob, Oakley, and me (Kelly Rideout)
At Sams Sunflowers we played the game of who could find the best-looking sunflowers, the happiest looking sunflower and of course the tallest sunflower with a beautiful face. The aim was to collect these sunflowers for a jug at home, some for nanny and another bunch for grandma. 
Sunflower Fields Pick Your Own Hampshire
The highlights of visiting pick your own for us is supporting local farms, having fun together outside, helping the environment by choosing seasonal flowers with no air miles. Seeing friends and the community coming together. There are lots of people smiling with arms filled with sunflowers when the fields are open in July.
Boys in sunflower field - Hampshire
Family fun at Sams Sunflowers
It also turns out to be a great place for natural photographs of children in the flowers and these are a few I took at Sam’s Sunflowers Hayling Island and the Lavender Fields in Selborne.
Sunflower bouquet in Rainbow Flower Wrap

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We cannot wait to visit more pick your own flower events and open days on flower farms this year. With us, we will take some Flower Wrap and Sticker Kits, to quickly make some bouquets to deliver with delight on the way home from the flower picking. I am already on the lookout for new places to visit, and Garsons Garden Centre is definitely on the list. A good place to start looking for events is Flower From The Farm.
Above is a very happy grandma giving out cuddles to the pickers of her fabulous bunch of sunflowers. 
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Flower Cutting Garden Design Inspiration

  • 1.7.18


July in the flower cutting garden outside the studio is blooming wonderfully, with Cosmos 'Blush' Cupcake, Cosmos Daydream, Cosmos bipinnatus 'Click' Cranberries, Sweetpeas, Zinnia 'Gaint' Dahlia, Huge Dahlia's Sunflowers and so much more bursting into flower. 

I am so glad now I took the journey last year with my husband Josphe to begin building this flower garden area. The flowers give a constant source of inspiration for my designs and fill our home with fresh flowers in jars everywhere. 

The 'Bloom and Grow' designs were handcrafted in the Hayling Island studio and flowers from the garden were used. These designs are styled and captured on the same day to ensure the flowers are at their most vibrant. 

As I was planting the cutting garden earlier in the year, the little pots and pretty flowers inspired this collection. I hope the plant designs will make you smile. Coming soon are the new matching greeting cards, to view the newly added flower wall art prints Molly Margaret Shop. 

Fresh cut flowers sign - now hangs above the flowers.
Watering in the evening on the cutting garden
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Click' Cranberries
Beautiful purple poppies have appeared and grown within the flowers
Zinnia 'Gaint' Dahlia - Amazing Red!
Sophia Laurhen Painted Metal Chicken - hiding under the Sunflowers
Bright Pink Large Dahlias coming out in full bloom
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Reclaim Your Off Cuts To Stunning Effects With Our Bespoke Mixed Media Art Picture Service.

  • 10.10.16

Vintage and contemporary textile art with a dash of mixed media. All Handmade in the UK, from our Hampshire studio by the sea. These unique gift ideas and home decoration items can add style chic to any room.

We also offer a bespoke picture service using your off cuts of wallpapers, fabrics, haberdashery and any other mixed media items. We can create unique art pictures to match your home or office interior.

Simply send us your off cuts, a type of image you have in mind, a bird, cottage, shop, flower, heart or if you need some inspiration simply leave it to us. We will keep you updated and send some images before the final design is agreed upon. Ideal to showcase and position opposite a feature wall to create another eye catching focus point



 Featured about Vintage Floral Bag Art and Rose Pink Cottage Wooden Gift Tag. 
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