Pick your flowers?

Vases around the house are filled with beautiful flowers this year. Scabiosa, White, pink and different shades of lavender. daisies, coneflowers, loosestrife, cosmos and lots of new ones I can't identify yet. I have some little white pitches I just filled and really enjoy them every time I walk by. Do you all bring some of your garden inside?
Meems

Seldom, but this year I made an effort to plant cutting flowers, like gladiolus. I usually don't have enough of of one kind of flower in the garden to sactifice them for a vase inside. This year, I have lots of shasta daisys as well as glads and they look good together...

Since I grow a lot of wildflowers, or at least they grow themselves, I enjoy a huge vase of them several times in spring. There are so many kinds, and when I tuck in a few irises it really makes a beautiful bouquet. I also cut my Camelot roses. Just the sight of a bowl of beautiful pink roses on the snack bar is enough to make me feel beautiful.
But I don't pick enough to interfere with seed harvesting.

I also like to cut greenery and bring it it throughout the year. A bunch of rosemary, dill, mint, iris leaves, yarrow, whatever is lovely, is fragrant and pretty. I toss in some arching branch tips from glossy abelia lots of times.

Yes, right now I have hydrangea, oriental lilies, and cleome in a vase. I love flowers in the house :-)

Meems, I have a part of my veggie garden dedicated to a cutting garden. I have spring annuals that are raised just for bouquets :) There are also a bunch of glads buried so deep that I can't find them! Many of my perennials are now big enough that I can cut flowers whenever I want for indoor bouquets. Definitely bring some of the garden indoors :)

Here is my knock-out arrangement so far...

not yet meems but I'm working on it, lupinelover your arrangement is awesome

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WOW! Lupinelover that is really impressive! I don't have anything that elaborate...... its wonderful. What are some good cutting flowers to plant in white, pink, purple and blue? Anything easy to grow with a long blooming period.
Meems

never ever ever! ok once in a BLUE moon i pick them!

In the spring I cut the yellow and purple swamp iris to bring indoors. I don't have enough yet to have them indoors and outdoors. One of these days.

Cheri'

I pick as many flowers as I can. I love to have fresh flowers in the house and to give away. Right now I am picking over a hundred sweetpeas a day (and that's not counting the ones on the other side of the fence that I told my neighbor to pick). In spring I pick daffodils, lilacs, tulips, peonies, irises, oriental poppies, forget-me-nots, violas and pansies, primroses, gee this could go on forever. Let's see, zinnias, Japanese iris, Japanes anemones,Obedient plant, boltonia, dahlias, zinnias, lilies, etc,etc,etc. Can you tell I love cut flowers??!!

White: Shasta Daisy! Blooms from June through October. Obedient Plant (White and purple) blooms at the same time.

Pink: Rose Campion. OK, it is magenta. But the silver stems and foliage tone it down. Lasts for days in an arrangement, blooms June through August, if you keep cutting it.

Purple: Purple coneflower. I grow mine in light shade, so the color doesn't fade.

Blue: Forget-me-not. Blooms from early April through May.

All the above are very easy-to-grow perennials. If you cut them, they aren't as invasive as if you let them alone.

Phlox paniculata comes in a lot of colors, very easy to grow, good cutting flower from July through September.

True annuals (not tender perennials commonly available here) make the best cutting flowers. Poppies, larkspur, sweet peas, zinnias, old-fashioned marigolds just to name a few. These usually have to be direct-seeded where you want them to grow -- most resent being transplanted.

I have a purple coneflower growing in one of my favorite pots. Unfortunately, I don't want it there. My DD sneaked it in while I was deciding what to plant in it. (O, did you want to use that pot?) Can it be moved, or will it "not make it thru the winter"? LOL She moved to TN, but she asks about the darn thing every time I talk to her.

I should bring some of those flowers indoors, but I hate to deprive the butterflies.

Cheri'

Purple coneflower is one of those that you can't kill with a stick... I rip mine out all the time, hasn't fazed it yet...

Glad to hear that, lupinelover. I'm taking my pot back, =)

Cheri'