Perennial Flowers For Cutting

[donnakebab]

Can anyone tell me the best varieties for cut flowers. My Mom spends a fortune putting flowers on memorial stones (Husband and two children), so I was thinking I might grow some on my plot that might help with the cost over the flowering season. She tends to go for Chrysanths and Spray Carnations with a bit of Gypsophila thrown in. Some Roses would be nice too.

What are the best options do you think?

[Piggle]

I grow cone flower ( echinachea thingies ) , rudbeckia goldsturm, rudbeckia green wizard and carnations . The first thee might be a bit cheerful for memorrial stones though but you can't go wrong with a carnation and you can strike them from bits off the shop bought ones.

Never had much luck with gypsophila and our local lotty tea leaf nicked my roses last year.

[veggiechicken]

What about flowers that dry well - like statice or helichrysums? Then they would look good for longer once cut.

[rustylady]

Pinks are easier to grow than carnations. You could also put bulbs in for spring flowers, daffodils and tulips perhaps.

[Two_Sheds]

Personally, I hate those plastic wrappers of brown flowers that are left on graves and lamp posts ... aren't you allowed to plant a few spring & summer bulbs ?

[piskieinboots]

Could you grow a small area of wild flowers? Nice, natural, flowing and pollinator-friendly

[donnakebab]

Mom does plant up a small trough of primulas, pansies and the like but there's a rose bowl in the memorial stones so she likes to put something in there. Not a lot of space between the stones. They are all fairly well packed in.

I have decided not to have one.

[vicky]

I grew chrysanthemum didyma from seeds last year and it flowered in the first year and chrysanthes last so long as a cut flower.
Dahlias are lovely too and sweetpeas but they don't last long once cut

[shushkin!]

How about the scabious family. I grow the tender "chilli" mix from seed
as it wont reliably get through a winter and also have the perennial
"Butterfly Blue and "Fama". I find them excellent cut flowers as well as
lovely in my perennial borders. Just get a bit cheesed off with having to
make sure they are amply supported as they are prone to flop over with
the weight of the large flower heads.