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Cut flower bed ideas?

debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
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Hi all am planning a cut flower bed on my allotment next year so any suggestions for easy flowers to grow? Sunny spot with good soil I want scented flowers if possible and maybe foliage stuff too. I am not an expert flower arranger but love a vase or two in the house. 

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  • FlowerNewbieFlowerNewbie Posts: 153
    Sweet peas! Amazing scent 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Perhaps wall flowers and scented daffs for spring. Hesperis, Chocolate cosmos, Nicotiana 'Perfume Purple', stocks, allysum, Phlox 'Blue Paradise', Sweet William "Fragrant Fever".


  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    edited July 2018
    Don't forget Antirrhinums, not scented but easy to grow from seed, flowers for months, until the first frosts.  Is known to self seed if happy, obviously not happy in my clay soil, never self seeds here.   Sweet peas as mentioned above, cannot be beaten with regards to scent and will also flower for months if continually fed and picked.  
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Bronze fennel too has a nice scent as you brush past. Bees are loving it.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Also statice , you can cut for dried flowers in winter.
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Thanks everyone I am definitely going to devote a whole bed just to sweet peas I love them and will be trying out some of the others in another bed. It's a big allotment and as I only have pots at home it makes sense to grow flowers rather than all vegetables. 
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited July 2018
    I've got cosmos, ammi and cornflowers as well as sweet peas, sunflowers, antirrhinum and gladioli. I grew a few daffs and tulips in pots for spring and I also have a couple of dahlias that I treat as annuals because I am incapable of keeping them alive over winter.

    Last year I cut some cornflowers, feverfew (it grows everywhere as a weed here), eryngium, achillea, alchemilla, teasel (from the hedge) and lavender and dried them for winter 'flowers' with allium seed heads - one other thing to consider to extend your season  :)
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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