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What are you planting next spring?
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Posted by luke_oh zone 5 NE Ohio (My Page) on Tue, Oct 27, 09 at 7:56
| My wife is retiring after 35 years teaching and I'd like to surprise her with a cutting garden next year. In the past, she has been responsible for the flowers and I have raised vegetables. I incorporated some annual flowers in with my veggies last year and enjoyed the balance. I have a seperate 40x30 area that I plan to make into her garden. Any suggestions would be appreciated. She usually starts her flowers from seed, so I'd like to give her the seeds for a christmas gift. Thanks, Luke |
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RE: What are you planting next spring?
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| I haven't started thinking about next spring yet, lol, but I will probably plant pretty much the same things I did this year. Sunflowers, zinnias, snapdragons, celosia, amaranthus, chinese asters, ageratum, statice, rudbeckias, gomphrena, and cosmos. I'll also plant some dahlias. As for perennials, I'm going to try alstromeria again. No luck for the last two years with seed, but maybe third time's the charm! But if I do get it to germinate and grow, it will most likely stay in containers, since I've heard/read that it's aggressive. Here's a link to a recent thread about favorite cutflowers. Good luck, have fun and I must say you have a lucky wife! :)
Dee |
Here is a link that might be useful: favorite cut flowers
RE: What are you planting next spring?
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| Dee, Thank you! I'm familiar with some of these and thanks for the favorite cut flower thread. By the way, I'm the lucky one. Luke |
RE: What are you planting next spring?
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| These are my tried-and-true annuals for cutflowers (they are all tall growing with large flowers): Zinnias: Any of the Benarys' Giants; State Fair; Giant Cactus and/or Burpeeanna, just about any tall growing large flowering Zinnia actually will be fine. Snapdragon: Rocket, Madame Butterfly, Tall Deluxe, Tetra, Brazilian Carnival, Snappy, Chantilly (again any tall Snap will do) Rudbeckia: Cherokee Sunset, Kevlon Star (aka Sputnik) Chim-chim-inee (many other, but these are my favorites) Asters: Standy, Unicum, Seastar (aka Tiger Paw), Pomplona, Compliment, Opus. Celosia: Pampus Plume, Punky Red. Scabiosa: Oxford Blue, Ebony & Ivory, Imperial. Ageratum: Blue Horizon. Throw in a few tall Dahlias and Sunflowers and you are all set. There are many other types of annuals but I've found that you don't have to grow a wide variety as long as the ones you choose are productive and the above-mentioned types are all productive throughout the season (except Asters) |
RE: What are you planting next spring?
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Today I set out 250 Black-eyed Susans the Goldstrum strain- Rudbeckia fulgida.
I started them from seed this spring and grew them in 3.5 inch pots.
I put them in a bed three plants wide with two plants spaced diagonally.
Hopefully they'll make a marketable cutflower.
I have 90 plants left that I need to find a place for. I might put them in one gallon pots. |
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