 |
Cut FlowersSkip has a bright idea for landscape color. |
||
|
Small File
|
Large File
|
||
| > Real
Player > Quicktime |
> Real
Player > Quicktime |
||
Transcript: Cut Flowers
Cut flowers are literally growing in popularity with Texas gardeners.Perhaps you have a fond memory of visiting grandma’s cut flower garden, or maybe you’ve always wanted to grow cut flowers but were afraid it’s just too difficult. Well it’s not; it can be quite easy.
There are a few that are real easy to grow. I’d start off early in the season with poppies. If you plant them in the fall, they come up in bloom in early spring. And after they bloom, the seed pods dry and are very attractive in arrangements as well. Some other good flowers are these snapdragons.
That brings me to an important point: when you’re choosing flowers for a cut flower garden, choose varieties that have long, tall flowering stalks so they make good cut flowers. Many of our modern hybrids are very short and well-suited for bedding plants but not so suited for cut flowers.
Other good choices include larkspur; Shasta Daisies are another good choice for cut flowers. I like to use herb blooms in my cut flower arrangements. Fennel and dill and the small white flowers of cilantro are also very attractive.
For more information on cut flowers, visit the Gardening With Skip website and look for the link to cut flower information.
With your common sense tip on growing great cut flowers right here in your Texas garden, I’m Skip Richter.
download
For comments and questions about this site please contact
coleena@tamu.edu
or e-gregory@tamu.edu
Last Updated:
July 6, 2006