With arthritis and sciatica, I'm more limited than I used to be. I've hired.people to haul and distribute mulch, for example, and am thinking about no-dig methods. Also I'm fascinated with a cutting garden after your inspiring video. Thank you for helping me to find a.new way to keep gardening in my 70s.
In the Soviet Union times we used to fill the bathtub with water, plunge bunches of roses presented for the birthday in it, keep them there overnight, and then in the morning fresh and revived back to the vases. Repeated that for several times. Thank you for your videos, love them a lot. Odessa, Ukraine.
I have my flowers scattered in beds and am not fully satisfied with that arrangement. Thanks for the Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival for the idea that cut flowers do not need large beds.
Bunny I cannot tell how thrilled I am that you did a video on a cutting garden! I just love them! I have a very small garden but have dedicated it to cut flowers. I cut them for my home & make posies for friends & neighbors. Thanks for the great tips as well!
I can’t bear to cut anything in my beds Bunny..like cutting my arm off.. We have quite a bit of shade, but need to look at putting in a bed for cutting blooms…this falls project.. Absolutely look forward to every episode.. thank you Bunny!!
Excellent video Ms Bunny! I just built raise beds to plant up all my dahlias in addition to other flowers for a cut-flower garden. This was right in time. Thank you!
Such beautiful flowers, I am now inspired to grow a cutting patch next summer. Thanks Bunny for another one of your interesting and informative videos 👍 and I can't believe some people put a thumbs down to this, what is wrong with people 😕
A tip I received from a florist - a way to revive any dropping flower from the florist etc is to completely submerege it in water for a couple of hours - the water is absorbed through every "pore" in the leaves.
I do a cut flowers bed every year as I dislike cutting flowers from the display beds, making them look bare and depleted. The essential cut flower for me is Sweet William - tall stems, fragrant, longlasting pretty blooms, and the small spiky foliage around the flowers is so pretty.
I’m in Australian with two mammoth old gum trees in the front yard and never thought to grow one for cut flower arrangements, how obvious! Will do it on my nature strip! Also my mother always put hydrangeas and some other flowers in hot water as well as splitting the stems. I use this for my hellebore and spring bulbs and it works a treat, they last for ages. I leave the stems in hot water for a few hours then put them in a vase. Not sure if other plants would tolerate this as it seems very counterintuitive
Is it just me? I'm sitting here trying to figure out a way to add a cut flower garden to my space. I can't bare to cut any from the flower beds so this would solve my dilemma. Many thanks Bunny.
Bunny, please will you tell me what the tallest purple stem with tiny little floating flowers is? And the thistley type thing? I think one of the most important things when arranging is to have variety - it's all to easy to be tempted in by the big showstoppers but I think they look much better with some whimsical and romantic shapes in there too!
@@bunnyguinness oh thank you so much for your reply, I wasn’t expecting one! Straight on the wishlist. I do in fact have a globe artichoke growing for the first time at the moment but I’ve never thought of it as a cut flower before and had no idea it would turn out like that. Also love the idea of green raspberries. Thank you!
That’s a favourite of mine it’s Hydrangea sargentiana , it is large - up to 3m. The flower heads dry in winter on the shrub and hang on there till early spring some years. 🐇
