flowers are happiness in your hand
A cut flower patch - a dedicated patch to grow cut flowers be it in your garden or on your balcony allows you to enjoy your own home grown blooms from late winter to late autumn.
Flowers can improve your anxiety, help with sleep, improve your memory, change your mood through colour and even make you more productive.
If you enjoy bringing the outdoors in through a handful of beautiful blooms to brighten your kitchen table or lift your dinner party. Then a cut flower patch might be just for you.
Here are my tried and tested top favourite cut flowers that I use.
Seeds from Floret and Green and Gorgeous - for Poetry in Petals flowers.
PLANT LIST:
Late winter early spring:
Hellebore - Hardy perennial / Plant in autumn
Narcissus - Hardy perennial / Plant in autumn
Spring/ early summer:
Ranunculus - Half hardy perennial needing protection in prolonged severe weather / Plant in autumn
Alliums - Hardy perennial / Plant in autumn
Tulips - Generally annual, a few are perennial / Plant in late autumn
Summer:
Cornflower - Hardy annual / Sow direct or under cover in spring or late autumn
Sweet Pea - Hardy annual / Sow under cover October to April. Direct sow March to May.
Poppy - Hardy annual or hardy perennial / Plant perennials in autumn to early spring / Sow annuals in late spring or early autumn
Ammi - Hardy annual / Sow in spring or autumn
Daucus - Hardy annual / Sow in autumn or spring or direct sow March/April
Roses - Hardy shrub / Plant bare root in winter avoiding frosty days
Nigella - Hardy annual / Sow March/April or August/September
Achillea - Hardy perennial / Plant from autumn to early spring but easy to raise from seed sown in spring.
Calendula - Hardy annual / Sow from March to May / Repeat flowering
Annual phlox - Half-hardy annual / Sow under cover from March to May / Repeat flowering
Late Summer /Early Autumn:
Cosmos - Half-hardy annual / Sow from March to May under cover.
Dahlias - Half-hardy to fully hardy perennials depending on location and soil type / Plant out from May having started the tubers under cover from March.
Hydrangea - Hardy perennial / Plant in late autumn through to early spring.
Rudbeckia - Half-hardy annual / Sow under cover March to April and direct sow April to June.
If you would like to grow along with me then either go to the shop page to purchase the seeds that we will be sowing monthly or buy your own and follow along on instagram either way let’s fill our space with flowers.
Flowers are happiness in your hand.
