A cutting garden is usually planted in rows, so you can harvest by the armloads to use for foral arrangements. Some of my favorites... Annuals snapdragon, zinnias, petunias, cosmos, poppies, china asters, cleome, dusty miller,, larkspur, tagets maridold,calendula. Perennials yarrow, aster, shasta daisy, coreopsis, delphiniums, bleeding heart, bearded iris, chrysanthemum x morifolium, foxglove, purple coneflower, hirta black eyed susan, peony, gypsophila babys breath. bulbs lily of valley, liles, daffodils, tulips The foliage I use can be from the garden as well...I look for lacy or cut leaf type. Enjoy!

Hello Arjen, I just have a couple of suggestion to add to the advice you have already received. Bookmark the link below in your Favorites. I visit this blog often. Very, very often. Jane previously posted here on the GardenWeb. She is a very talented lady who resides in Drymen; and, markets in Glasgow. Love her style which is much the style also of Sarah Raven. Sarah Raven: This knowledge and enthusiasm is present in all her books, her first The Cutting Garden (1996) won the Garden Writers� Guild Award for Best Specialist Gardening book, �The Bold and Brilliant Garden (1999) offers a new approach to planning and planting a garden for sumptuous colour and scent and Grow Your Own Flowers (2002) which is an in-depth guide to growing and arranging your own flowers at home. Sarah�s new book Sarah Raven�s Garden Cookbook is published by Bloomsbury in June 2007. Sarah is an inspirational and passionate teacher, running cooking, flower arranging and gardening courses at the school she set up in 1999 at her farm in East Sussex. Her mail order company, Sarah Raven�s Kitchen and Garden, sells seeds, bulbs, books and her favorite things for the kitchen and garden. Sarah is a presenter on BBC Gardeners� World, she writes for The Daily Telegraph, Country Living Magazine, Gardeners� World Magazine, Domino Magazine (US) and has been a guest on BBC Radio 4�s Woman�s Hour and The Food Program. Sarah is married to the writer Adam Nicolson and has two daughters and three stepsons. They live at Perch Hill Farm in East Sussex. Her website is: http://www.sarahraven.com We own two of her books. I think my favorite is Grow Your Own Cut Flowers. Beautiful detail. Beautiful pictures. We love her bright and bold style. Warmest Regards, Trish Here is a link that might be useful: Snapdragon's Garden

Shasta - here's my list - Doreen. Flowers Columbine – red [canadensis] Cosmos – orange Hibiscus [hardy] – Cherry red/Luna pink/Luna white Million gold Mina lobata Pepper, Ornamental [capsicum annum] Phlox [hardy] – white,pink & lavender mix w/ bicolors Rudbeckia - Autumn Sun [r.herbstonne] Rudbeckia triloba [prairie coneflower] Vegetables & herbs Broccoli – Calabrese green sprouting Carrot – Nantes coreless Catnip Chicory – Blue southishe Dill Lettuce – Buttercrunch Peas – Sugar snap/Little marvel Pepper , bell – yellow/orange Pumpkin – Jack O'Lantern Radish – early Scarlet globe Spinach – Bloomsdale longstanding Thyme Tomato [heirloom] – Black Krim/Solar Flare/Hillbilly/Wins All/Great white beefsteak/Beauty king/Pineapple/Paul Robeson Turnip – Purple top white globe Vines Clematis – sweet autumn Hyacinth bean - white Morning glory - mix [includes Milky Way, Grandpa Ott, ivy-leaf blue, Crimson rambler and various others] /Grandpa Ott/Orange Nah Pea vine – white butterfly Trumpet vine – orange/red Trees/Shrubs Crepe myrtle Hydrangea - white [Annabelle] Rose of Sharon – single pink w/dark eye/purple

My French lilac blooms have no smell at all, and the blossoms are very short lived in vases, so I am waiting for my old fashioned lilac to gain enough mass that I can harvest a few branches from it each year. The only other flowers I've grown that make suitable cut flowers are sunflowers and gladioli. Unless you count the spring wildflowers I place in miniature vases on my kitchen windowsill. Actually I have occasionally picked a sprig off of my bleeding hearts for these same tiny vases, and they last a long time.