Summer Bulbs For Your Cutting Garden
Here is a list of popular choices that will bloom excellently in your summer garden and also perform well in bouquets and other cut flower arrangements.
Agapanthus (Lily of the Nile)
These globular flowers bloom in flower clusters and come in colors of blue, purple or white.
Allium
The tall, puff-ball flowers of A. giganteum and A. aflatunense are especially good as garden plants and cut flowers.
They bloom primarily in colors of purple and white. Attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators.
Brodiaea (Cluster-lilies)
Wispy, glasslike foliage with flower clusters atop slender stalks.
Colors: shades of blue, purple, and white.
Crocosmia
Tall golden yellow to brilliant orange-scarlet blossoms.
Attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.
Dahlias
A multitude of shapes and colors, all magnificent performers in the garden.
The more you cut, the more they bloom (especially the Cactus and Pompoms varieties).
Eremurus
Spectacular towering spikes of flowers that will bloom in an array of colors like: white, pink, yellow, and orange.
Can last up to three weeks when cut.
Ixiolirion
Delicate lavender flowers atop slender stems.
Lycoris (Red Spider Lily)
Yellow or rosy red delicate looking spidery flowers.
Nerine (Guernsey Lily)
Stylish, rose-pink spidery flowers.
Ranunculus (Persian Buttercup)
2-5 inch flowers packed with petals, in every color except blue or green.
Sparaxis (Harlequin Flower)
Variously colored with yellow and black throat, sword-like foliage.
Excellent for Fragrance and Long Vase Life
Flowers are great, but fragrant flowers are even better and the longer lasting, the better.
In short - the best of the best when it comes to cut flowers!
Acidanthera (Abyssinian gladiolus)
Delicate swan-like cousin of the gladiolus with creamy white flowers, delicate scent.
Allium neapolitanum (Naples Garlic)
This is a beautiful, profusely-flowering ornamental onion with sweetly-scented clusters of white, star-shaped flowers forming umbels up to 3-4 in. wide (7-10 cm), atop narrow strap-shaped, mid-green leaves. Its stems can grow up to 15-inches tall.
Anemone de Caen (Poppy Anemone)
Poppy-like flowers in white, blues, pinks, purples, or reds.
Calla zantedeschia (Calla Lily)
Sheath-shaped flowers of flawless beauty in every imaginable shade.
Also makes a great houseplant!
Clivia (Natal Lily)
15-inches tall with wide-petalled clusters in many blends of orange, salmon, scarlet and white.
Also makes a great houseplant!
(photo coming soon!)
Crinum lily
Majestic white-rosy-red flecked blossoms.
Eucomis (Pineapple Plant)
Flowers blooming from base of a pineapple-looking plant.
Comes in colors of creamy white, pink, and purple.
(photo coming soon!)
Galtonia (summer hyacinth)
Bell-shaped flowers atop 2-3 foot stems, they bloom when gladioli do. Use together in arrangements.
Gladiolus
A flower made for cutting, tall stately stalks covered with huge florets, in every color imaginable.
Will attract Hummingbirds and many other pollinators!
Iris
Especially the Dutch Iris or xiphium species, come in white, blue, yellow, bronze, purple or bi-color.
Ismene (Spider Lily)
Fancy, white daffodil-like flowers.
Ixia (African Corn Lily)
Lush petals in red, cream, orange, pink or yellow atop wiry stalks.
Liatris (Blazing Star)
Tall spiky wand of orchid florets, long-lasting.
Will attract Hummingbirds and many other pollinators!
Lily (Asiatic)
Generally early summer bloomers.
Lily (Oriental)
Generally late summer bloomers.
Ornithogalum thyrsoides (Star of Bethlehem)
Star-shaped white flowers atop tall stalks, very long-lasting.
Polianthes (Tuberose)
Tall exceedingly sweet waxy-white blossoms.
Of course, there are many more options for your cut flower garden, but these are a few of our favorites.
Need help deciding which ones will grow best in your garden? Visit one of our retails stores or gives us a call!