Who doesn’t love to receive a bouquet of fresh-cut flowers? Their exquisite fresh blooms and glorious scents add a touch of elegance to your home and are a perfect accent for any season.
With the right plants and a sunny spot in your garden, you can grow a cutting garden to create your own unique flower arrangements. The most versatile cutting gardens are usually a mix of repeat blooming annuals, perennials, nursery, and bulb plants.
Do you want a garden full of big, beautiful colourful blooms this summer?
Then you may want to consider getting started with summer flowering bulbs. They can easily be started in containers indoors to give them a head start for glorious blooms this summer. Once the risk of frost has passed, your established plants can be moved to a sunny location outside in their existing containers or transplanted into your garden beds.
Summer blooming bulbs enhance the beauty of your landscape with bright colour and are perfect for fresh-cut bouquets.
Summer bulbs start blooming in late June and continue until autumn frost. To maximize bloom time in your garden, they should be started indoors in the late winter or early spring. Here are some of our favourite bulbs to get started right now.
Live potted Christmas trees are a popular, environmentally friendly alternative to a freshly cut tree. Enjoy the fresh scent of live evergreens inside your home or in your outdoor décor with the added benefit of being able to plant it in your garden after the holidays to watch it grow and enjoy for years to come.
Trees are an environmentally friendly addition to your property and essential to our lives. They improve our air quality, provide shade and privacy, define our neighbourhoods, and add value and character to our homes.
When buying nursery stock it is important that you plant it as soon as possible. If you can’t plant right away, keep your plant in the shade and water it well until you are ready to transplant.
Here are some helpful steps for planting:
Phlox is one of the most popular and versatile garden perennials because it works in so many areas throughout your garden. Their long-lasting blooms make them a favourite flowering perennial enjoyed by gardeners and pollinators. They are easy-to-grow, delightfully fragrant, and adaptable plants that the National Garden Bureau named the perennial of the year for 2022.
Proper watering through the summer is key to lush, healthy plants. With the unpredictability of rain, here are general guidelines to help keep your lawn and garden well-hydrated this summer.
Hydrangeas are some of the most beloved flowering shrubs. If you’re not already a believer, here are some reasons to add hydrangeas to your garden this summer!
4 REASONS TO CHOOSE A HYDRANGEA!
Annuals are perfect for brightening your garden, window boxes and containers. They provide vibrant colour, shape, and texture to any garden, and with proper care, annuals will provide continuous blooms until frost arrives.
With so many annuals to choose from, it is important to understand the different growing conditions required per plant. Annuals can vary in size, required sun exposure, growing and soil conditions.
Gardening season is here with endless possibilities for creativity with plants. Express your personal style by designing and building your own summer planter. Whether on a deck, patio, or balcony, planters are an easy way to grow your favourite seasonal plants.
Peonies are one of the hardiest and most beloved perennials. Their beautiful showy flowers can last from spring right through summer, and make for outstanding long-lasting cut flower displays. Their lush green foliage makes them a garden focal point.