Your best cut flower plants please?

[jowly]

I'm planning on growing flowers for the house this year, so I'm guessing annuals?

I do have a greenhouse, not much spare space but some, and lots of pots.

Any ideas for seeds please? And if anyone could recommend a good book on the idea that would be fab!

alstromerias
cosmos seeds
antirrhinum
sweet pea seeds
dahlias
zinnias

Have a look on Sarahraven.com - she is the doyenne of this! She has excellent books, and lovely plants and seeds but can be quite £££. You coild also order of download her catalogue to give you an idea of where to start, and what type of look you like. And remember foliage too!

If you have instagram (and if you don’t, it’s worth signing up just for her) follow Zoe from Swan Cottage Flowers. She’s the cut flower queen and does “grow alongs” as well as producing handbooks to refer to. I’m sowing various bits in the next few weeks along with those that I already have started. My list looks a little like:
Snapdragons
Sweet peas
Larkspur
Stocks
China aster
Carnation
Cornflowers
Cosmos

Ranunculus were started last year as were most of the fillers (carrot, orlaya, ammi etc)

I grow sweet peas for cutting and also dahlias.

Love ranunculus but haven't had great success with them yet.

@NoParticularPattern

If you have instagram (and if you don’t, it’s worth signing up just for her) follow Zoe from Swan Cottage Flowers. She’s the cut flower queen and does “grow alongs” as well as producing handbooks to refer to. I’m sowing various bits in the next few weeks along with those that I already have started. My list looks a little like: Snapdragons Sweet peas Larkspur Stocks China aster Carnation Cornflowers Cosmos

Ranunculus were started last year as were most of the fillers (carrot, orlaya, ammi etc)

Oo thanks, just found her and looks very useful!

Wow! That looks really good

I am also a Sarah Raven Fan I have just order a whole load of dahlias, galdioli, foxgloves, a cutting collection and some meadow mixes to replace some grass.
I am lucky I have moved to a boring garden that is in full sun and needs brightening up.
I have Sarah Raven's book a year full of flowers have my narcissi in pots in the house flower now, hellebores about to flower out in the porch and tulip lasagne planted ready to go.

can i add sunflowers to the list....smaller ones. dont forget foliage too.eg red orach, magentaspleen (you can eat them both too).

Just be careful when ordering from Sarah Raven - have a look on Trustpilot first. Beautiful catalogue, great for ideas but having been disappointed more than once I would buy elsewhere.

Dahlias - I have a row at the allotment and they are my best crop. Sarah Raven has fabulous selections. SR did go through a dodgy patch early last year when she moved warehouse but I got some fabulous plants from her. Alternatively you can see what's in her selections and google for alternative suppliers.

There are LOADS of ideas on instagram.

Higgledygarden does great bundles of seeds suited to cut flower gardening.

Check out the FB group Seed to vase Challenge 2022 op! 💐💐💐

I use Sarah Raven for ideas then order from other cheaper nurseries where the plants are more robust and likely to succeed.

@HoliHormonalTigerlilly that looks great thanks!

@Bideshi

I use Sarah Raven for ideas then order from other cheaper nurseries where the plants are more robust and likely to succeed.

Where are the other cheaper nurseries?

Parkers. Woolmans. Farmer Gracie. All good places to start. Cheap and cheerful (Parkers especially - wouldn't buy tulips anywhere else). Not as posh as SR, but prime quality stuff at decent prices. Everyone in the trade uses them - Monty too I shouldn't wonder! You can get a wholesale catalogue from Parkers if you want a bigger order. For brilliant pelargoniums (aka geraniums) Fibrex is fantastic and reasonable. Parkers and Woolmans both do good plug plants, but if you google plug plants there will be others. I use both and recommend them. Farmer Gracie is amazing for lilies. Woolmans great for dahlias and chysanths, but plugs too and stuff like gladioli.

Seed To Vase: How growing cut flowers inspired lives to bloom. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09PNZGCKS/ref=cmswwrcppapiglttiWJHA0JAF1VER2TWMZMT4

@Bideshi

Parkers. Woolmans. Farmer Gracie. All good places to start. Cheap and cheerful (Parkers especially - wouldn't buy tulips anywhere else). Not as posh as SR, but prime quality stuff at decent prices. Everyone in the trade uses them - Monty too I shouldn't wonder! You can get a wholesale catalogue from Parkers if you want a bigger order. For brilliant pelargoniums (aka geraniums) Fibrex is fantastic and reasonable. Parkers and Woolmans both do good plug plants, but if you google plug plants there will be others. I use both and recommend them. Farmer Gracie is amazing for lilies. Woolmans great for dahlias and chysanths, but plugs too and stuff like gladioli.

Fab thank you 🙏