Do you feel guilty cutting flowers from your display beds and borders? If so, design a cut-flower garden so you can decorate your table and rooms with fresh cut flowers whenever you feel like it. The scent and color of fresh flowers can make your home more inviting and enjoyable, especially for dinner with the family or guests. A cut-flower garden requires full sun, and you can tuck it into a corner as long as it’s accessible and in fertile, well-drained soil. Also, you can

plant the flowers closer to each other than normal for cutting purposes. To keep the cut-flower garden tidy, deadhead the flowers you don’t cut. After digging up the bed for planting, add some granular slow-release fertilizer. Then you can arrange the following types of flowers close together: butterfly bush, lisianthus, cosmos, bells of Ireland, tall verbena, meal-cup sage and nasturtiums. Applying a thin layer of mulch can prevent weeds, and it finishes the look.

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A Spectacular Cut-Flower Garden