The Designer Gardens

During the summer months, we like to keep a fresh bouquet of flowers in our reception area. I cut this bouquet from one of our two cutting gardens and just plunked it into a vase. No flower-arranging skills required!

I planted the beds in early May, using the wooden planting grid from our Square Foot Garden Kit to measure out the rows. These poly-coated steel planting grids would work equally well.

The appeal of a cutting garden is abundance: having lots of flowers so you don’t miss the ones you cut, and having enough colors, shapes and sizes to compose unique and interesting arrangements from early summer right to frost.

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