Grow your own flower bouquets from seed

Grow your own flower bouquets from seed

There’s something very special about a bouquet of your own home-grown cut flowers, whether it’s for your own arrangements or as a beautiful gift with a personal touch. Cut flowers are often easy to grow from seed, and here are a few of our favourites.

Sweet peas

Sweet peas make fabulous cut flowers filling the room with their heady fragrance. They can be sown in pots in a greenhouse in early spring, or directly outdoors in mid-spring. Train the seedlings up a trellis or support canes. Pinch off the growing tips to produce bushy plants, and feed and water regularly. Pick the flowers frequently.

Nigella

Also known as love-in-the-mist, Nigella is one of the easiest hardy annuals to grow. It self-seeds easily giving you flowers year after year. Sow the seeds directly outdoors in March and April in well-prepared soil and water regularly until the seedlings are established. Both the deep blue flowers and the striking rounded seed pods that follow them look fabulous in bouquets.

Cosmos

Cosmos will flower for months from summer well into autumn, and regular picking or deadheading will ensure a long flowering season. The big, colourful daisy-like flowers and fern-like foliage add a touch of softness to flower arrangements. Sow cosmos indoors in pots or seed trays in early spring and plant outside once the frost is over.

Cosmos

Ammi majus

With its frothy white flowerheads on long slender stems, Ammi majus makes a beautiful contrast to bolder flowers in vases and bouquets. The seedlings don’t like to be transplanted, so this hardy annual is best sown directly outdoors from March to May or in autumn for overwintering.  Feed and water regularly.

Tithonia

Also known as Mexican sunflowers, these gorgeous bright orange flowers make a big impact both in the garden and in flower arrangements. With long stems, they’re perfect for cutting, and regular picking will keep the plants flowering longer. Sow the seeds indoors in March or April in pots in a propagator or on a sunny windowsill. Plant outside once the frost is over.

Tithonia

Dahlia

Dahlias make fabulous cut flowers adding spectacular impact to bouquets and arrangements. Start dahlia tubers indoors in pots in early spring and plant outside in summer. Feed and water regularly. Stake the larger varieties to stop them flopping over. Regular picking will keep the plants flowering well into autumn.

Cornflowers

Cornflowers are easy to grow from seed and the rich blue flowers look stunning contrasted with orange poppies, or teamed with white Shasta daisies for a cool, tranquil effect. Sow the seeds outdoors from March to May in a sunny spot from June to September, and pick regularly to keep the flowers coming.

Growing your own cut flowers is very rewarding and you’ll find a fantastic range of flower seeds and seedlings in our centre. Visit us today to start growing your own bouquets!

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