our flower garden

Having a cut flower garden has always been one of my dreams, and we’re finally doing it this year. I’m beyond thrilled. I have very grand hopes for all of these flowers, but we’ll see what actually comes to fruition. Keep reading for all of the varieties that we are growing this year!

baby purity cosmos ready to be transplanted into the garden next week!

a little peak at one of our flower beds. this was entirely overgrown and full of crabgrass about 3 weeks ago. I spent hours in here clearing it out. It has so much promise. It has 4 meadow rose bushes in it already and I’m dreaming up all the beautiful arrangements I’ll be able to make with everything we are growing!

Here are all of the varieties that I have started already from seed to transplant in:

• Giant mix dahlias 

• Marjorie carrier sweet pea

• Camelot cream foxglove

• Faerie queen heirloom apricot foxglove

• Apricot asters

• Violet asters

• valkerie brunhilde chamois asters

• Apricot stock 

• Buttercream stock

• Avalanche supreme stock 

• Mammoth salmon cream sweet pea

• Emerald pacific mix delphinium

• Purity cosmos

• Ocean pearls corn cockles 

• Apricot strawflower

• Giant McKenna mix columbines 

and these are the flowers that I am either direct sowing or will be starting this week!

• Meadow wildflowers 

• Bright lights mix colors cosmos

• Giant flowered mix colored zinnias

• Cut and come again mix colors zinnias 

• Cherry queen zinnia 

• Supreme shirley poppy

• Amazing grey Shirley poppy 

• Peony flowered mix bread seed poppy 

• Sherbet mix Iceland poppies

• Sunset mixed colors California poppy 

• Pennycress cress 

• Whipped cream phlox 

• dwarf jewel mixed colors nasturtium 

• Eskimo marigold 

ranunculus sprouts!

I’m also planting about 20 ranunculus crowns (you can see those sprouting above!), 5 dahlia tubers (gorgeous pastel colors!) and 5 rose form begonia tubers. Those will all go in the ground next week!