Plant a Bouquet: Flower Varieties for a Perfect Cutting Garden at Home

The gift of a flower bouquet brings joy to almost all who receive them. For the flower gardening enthusiast, giving flowers you grow can give special pleasure in watching a carefully tended blossom bring a smile to a loved one's face. In the wide world of choices for beautiful blooms to grow for a homemade bouquet, the best way to go is to choose flowers that grow well in your local climate. From those choices, choose flower colors and fillers that suit your visual bouquet style as well as your home gardening style.

Top cutting gardens for beautiful bouquets usually take into account form and color and go for a variety of flower shapes and colors to add choice and variety to home-grown gift bouquets. As an added bonus, floral gifts don't bring clutter to the recipient's home long-term, since they can be pressed or tossed immediately the moment they no longer please the recipient.

Cosmos

Cosmos are all the rage for cutting gardens in the northern part of the United States, though they can grow in greenhouses almost anywhere. Particularly hot this spring season are Chocolate-Scented Cosmos, which literally smell like chocolate. Chocolate-scented flowers make a great surprise for chocolate-loving recipients, and they are easy to grow.

Growing Chocolate-scented Cosmos is fairly easy as far as cutting flowers go. Ensure that you choose a well-drained soil rich in organic nutrients and plant it in a ground area or container that receives good drainage. Chocolate Cosmos can stand a little dryness and do not like to be over-watered.

Baby's Breath

Also known as Gypsophila paniculata, Baby's Breath is a common bouquet filler for florists all around the globe. Its tufts of flowers that resemble balls of white lace create a bountiful bouquet appearance by filling in the gaps between the showcase flowers in the bunch.

Baby's Breath will tolerate most climates, as long as it is grown in well-drained soil and the ground is moist. If you live around the Great Lakes, this plant grows out of control to the point where it has been declared an invasive species. Ensure that your Baby's Breath plant has a wide berth between its border and any plant areas you wish to keep free of Baby's Breath, since it tends to easily spread.

Sweet Peas

Sweet Peas bear a richly colored, strikingly fragrant flower that is best experienced in tufts raised to the face as you inhale the sweet scent with petals in an embrace. Unless you are allergic-like, of course, then enjoy from afar.

The Old-Fashioned type of Sweet Pea is a good start for a Sweet Pea growing beginner, since it takes well to many different growing climates. Sweet Pea plants prefer a lot of sun and a lot of compost, and they are best planted six weeks prior to the frost.