Cut Flowers 2016

[Small pumpkin]

I picked these last week forget to post the picture



There all still looking good & going strong.

[OscarSidcup]

today's dahlias with a few cosmos

[Martin H]

Todays vase. Mostly chrysanths plus a few sweet peas, pot marigolds and feverfew. I would have put a few dahlias in but the bees were enjoying them and I didn't want to disappoint them.

[Guest]

Vase 14 (complete with fartichoke flowers) + 15

[Scarlet]

Dahlias and chrysanths ..with just the one sunflower (which are her favourites) for my friends birthday in the week.

She loved them!

[Snadger]

My chrysanths are flowering so I can judge the cultivar by the flower. Just downloaded the original cultivar list with colours and growth habit so I will go and label them accordingly for next years cuttings production.

[burnie]

Never grown Chrysanths before, but will be hopefully doing so next year and will join in this thread if I can grow them. Freesias are another I'd like to grow, they were my Dads favourite flower.

[boatsman]

This year for the first time I saved seeds from the freesias that I hadn't cut. I sowed them all in a flat container in a shallow trough of water. To my amazement some of them actually germinated and are now about 3 cm high. In the past I had always sown freesia bulbs, didn't even know they could be raised from seed. In the meantime my freesias in the planters are now about a foot high.

[Guest]

Vase 16 + 17 which was for someone else.



I have gotten a bit addicted to cut flowers so have been browsing (and accidently buying) seeds for next year. Still think a vase a week will be a struggle but def. looking forward to trying.

[Scarlet]

I have gotten a bit addicted to cut flowers so have been browsing (and accidently buying) seeds for next year. Still think a vase a week will be a struggle but def. looking forward to trying

Not trying to teach your granny to suck eggs but your flowers will go much further if use use some foliage, they also give the vase/bouquet a bit of interest too. Lots of greenery, berries etc for contrasting shapes and colour and their sturdier stems help to hold the display together. You' deadly manage two a week if you added some greens

I have pittosporum, a dark purple and also a variegated leaf as well as the plain green one. The purple one is a small variety but perfect for smaller bowls. Euonymus, physio carpus, lovely copper colours. I love snowberry when it has the White berries, eucalyptus - mine gets pretty much razored to the ground every year. Lots of other that are worth considering. I use ??? (Will add the name when I remeber!) Ive forgotten what's it's called now a shrub that has measly yellow flowers but has lovely small berries on long stems (I remember Mothhawk) saying she hated it but Ive loads dotted around the garden. - lovely for cutting. Continus, bay, Rosemary, they all have a place occasionally in a cut flower arrangement.

I'm going out tonight...not many flowers but I'll get a couple of bouquets from this lot.

[Guest]

No need to worry about granny, you are quite welcome to teach me to suck eggs When we moved in I really didn't gain many plants and quite a bit of what was here I ripped out, that coupled with me not being a shrubby person..........basically I am very grateful for any advice and recommendations no matter how simple it seems

[Snadger]

Not trying to teach your granny to suck eggs but your flowers will go much further if use use some foliage, they also give the vase/bouquet a bit of interest too. Lots of greenery, berries etc for contrasting shapes and colour and their sturdier stems help to hold the display together. You' deadly manage two a week if you added some greens

I have pittosporum, a dark purple and also a variegated leaf as well as the plain green one. The purple one is a small variety but perfect for smaller bowls. Euonymus, physio carpus, lovely copper colours. I love snowberry when it has the White berries, eucalyptus - mine gets pretty much razored to the ground every year. Lots of other that are worth considering. I use ??? (Will add the name when I remeber!) Ive forgotten what's it's called now a shrub that has measly yellow flowers but has lovely small berries on long stems (I remember Mothhawk) saying she hated it but Ive loads dotted around the garden. - lovely for cutting. Continus, bay, Rosemary, they all have a place occasionally in a cut flower arrangement.

I'm going out tonight...not many flowers but I'll get a couple of bouquets from this lot.
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I love Cotinus and was tempted to buy a mature specimen reduced to half price at the local Garden Centre!

[Guest]

Not trying to teach your granny to suck eggs but your flowers will go much further if use use some foliage, they also give the vase/bouquet a bit of interest too. Lots of greenery, berries etc for contrasting shapes and colour and their sturdier stems help to hold the display together. You' deadly manage two a week if you added some greens

I have pittosporum, a dark purple and also a variegated leaf as well as the plain green one. The purple one is a small variety but perfect for smaller bowls. Euonymus, physio carpus, lovely copper colours. I love snowberry when it has the White berries, eucalyptus

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I don't know if you can say or guesstimate, but how many shrubs/ foliage plants do you raid to the number of vases you produce? I have been out buying but it is hard to imagine the amount of foliage when the plants are little and the fact they will still essentially be garden plants

[Guest]

Doesn't really count as I just refreshed them but you gotta love their lasting powers.

[Scarlet]

For some reason it won't do the whole quote

I don't know if you can say or guesstimate, but how many shrubs/ foliage plants do you raid to the number of vases you produce? I have been out buying but it is hard to imagine the amount of foliage when the plants are little and the fact they will still essentially be garden plants

Hmm, not sure but if you grow against a wall or fence you can often hack out loads and class it as a prune Established shrubs often put out a fair amount of growth during a season. Ive a very big garden and my borders are very deep - and Ive been here nearly 17 years so ive filled it with lots of shrubs that I can cut and ones that I have found useful added several more of the same.