Flowers for cutting.

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Hi, am new to the gardening topics (but MN has never let me down on the other message boards).

We have recently moved to the country and have a big enough garden with a large greenhouse and a proper veg patch to grow our own fruit, veg and flowers for cutting.

I have planted loads of different vegetables and there are tons of existing fruit plants but I would love to grow pretty and/or nice-smelling flowers to cut and bring into the house all summer long. Just wanting ideas about what to grow. So far have only planted scented sweet peas and have bought some seeds for stocks. I would like to grow lisianthus (eustoma) as I used to use them a lot in flower arrangements but I can't find any seeds or plants in the local garden centre.

Any suggestions for other cut flowers lovely MNers. TVM.

sweet williams are really good for cutting and last a long time once cut.

Cosmos is really good in the cutting garden - the more you cut it the more it flowers.

Also antirrhinum aka snapdragon.

I always have those two in my cutting border. This year I am also trying to grow cornflowers and nigella from seed.

Sarah Raven's website is full of inspiring ideas.

Thanks for the ideas. Will try Sarah Raven's website later - it's not working now.

Oooh I love cutting flowers! How about:

Shasta daisies (june- aug, last ages)
Michaelmas daisies (aug-oct)
Asters (july-sep)
Yarrow (lots of colours, you can dry it too)
Cornflowers
Scabious (jul-aug)
Alchemellia mollis (green - very good foil for colour) jun-aug
Salvias (the perennial kind)jun - aug ...

all these are herbaceous perennials, except cornflowers. Got room for a rose bush or climber?

Thanks. Some many flowers to choose from...... I think I'll give the roses a miss, this year at least as they are a bit high maintenance for me at the mo. Am of the 'chuck it in the ground and let it get on with growing itself school of gardening'. Have got some cornflower seeds and some others, but I can't remember the names just now.
Am probably going to bankrupt myself on the Sarah Raven website (and thought I was supposed to be saving money by doing all this grow your own...)