Grow these perennials in a cutting garden so you’ll always have something to snip for fresh bouquets.
Cutting gardens are for more than just annual flowers.
This sturdy, drought-tolerant perennial adds a vertical accent to a garden, and the cut bloomseven dry well.
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This easy-to-grow native perennial isn’t picky about soil.
It grows in poor, shallow, chalky, or dry conditions.
Plus, it draws pollinators and resists deer.
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Its long, slender clusters of blooms are great forfilling in bare spots in flower arrangements.
Its stiff blooms also work well for long-lasting, dried arrangements.
Size:Grows to 3 feet tall and wide
Garden Phlox
Gardenphloxis a perennial garden favorite.
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It produces large clusters offragrant flowersfrom summer to early fall.
It’s well-suited for the back of borders and incottage gardens.
Their star-shaped blooms appear in several shades, from pink and red to orange, yellow, and bi-colors.
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Many varieties alsoadd a sweet fragrance to your garden(and your bouquet!).
Just beware if you have cats: all parts of lilies are lethally poisonous to them.
Test Garden Tip:Extend the show by growing different varieties.
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Asiatic lilies, for example, bloom in early to mid-summer;orienpet hybridsbloom in mid to late summer.
Purple Coneflower
Purpleconefloweris easy to grow and provides a steady stream of summer’s prettiest blooms.
Some varieties even have multicolored blooms.
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Test Garden Tip:Look for reblooming iris varieties.
They put on a spring show and often flower again in fall.
Thiseasy-care plantblooms in early summer and goes with seemingly everything.
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These perennials have daisy-like flowers in shades of pink, purple, blue, and white.
Smaller selections make great fillers in aflower arrangement.
you could find cultivars in red, pink, lavender, violet, or white.
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Plus, these flowers are afavorite of hummingbirdsand butterflies.
Its daisy-like, 3-inch wide, single or double flowers bloom throughout the summer and fall.
Pollinators love it, too.
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Size:Grows 2 feet tall and wide
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