It's All Cut and Dry: Cutting Flowers

(12 Photos)

New York Botanical Garden Expert Sonia Uyterhoeven on Sep 24, 2008 at 6:14PM

chime in now
  • 1 of 12

It's All Cut and Dry: Cutting Flowers

Next Up: How to Get Your Garden Ready For Spring
starts in 3 seconds
    Loading slides...

It's All Cut and Dry: Cutting Flowers



by New York Botanical Garden Expert Sonia Uyterhoeven

Bring nature indoors with a bouquet of fresh-cut flowers. Flowers for arrangements can be taken from flowering trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs or annuals. Annuals are some of the best candidates for cut flowers since they produce many flowers over a long season. ‘Nadezhda,' for example, is a wonderfully fragrant and floriferous lilac from Russia.

NEXT: Variety makes things interesting >>

Related Links:
More gardening tips from the New York Botanical Garden


AddThis Social Bookmark Button
Chime In
Chime in now!