Grandmother's Cut Flower Garden
Assorted - LARGE PACKET
Mix of annuals and perennials. Even if your grandmother didn’t have a green thumb, this mix will evoke images of the simpler, less hurried time in which she lived. An old-fashioned "cutting garden" was often no more than a corner of the vegetable garden where a few flower seeds were tossed - their lovely, cheerful blossoms were a bonus after the hard work of sowing, watering, weeding, and harvesting.
Full sun. Blooms spring to frost
Height: 18" - 48" tall
Days to Emerge: 5-20 Days
Seed Depth: 1/4"
Seed Spacing: Scatter about 25 seeds per square foot and rake in.
Thinning: As needed.
When to sow outside: RECOMMENDED. 1 to 2 weeks before the average last spring frost. A second option: sow half the seed 4 weeks before the average last frost (hoping the last frost is earlier than usual) and sow the second half a week or two after the average last frost (just to be safe).
When to start inside: Not recommended.
Sown at the rate of 25 seeds per sq. ft., this mix covers approximately 350 sq. ft. and includes (percent of mix by weight):
China Aster (A) . .12%
Forget-Me-Not, Chinese (A) . . 12%
Sweet Sultan (A) . . 11%
Daisy, Painted Tricolor (A) . . 10%
Cornflower, Dwarf (A) . . 8%
Larkspur, Giant Imperial (A) . . 8%
Love-in-a-Mist (A) . . 8%
Mexican Hat, Yellow (A) . . 1%
Cosmos (A) . . 4%
Delphinium, Pacific (P) . . 4%
Sweet William (B) . . 4%
Baby’s Breath (A) . . 3%
Bishop’s Flower (A) . . 3%
Globe Gilia (A) . . 2%
Godetia, Tall Double (A) . . 2%
Brown-eyed Susan (A) . . 2%
Celosia, Feathered Red (A) . . 2%
Coreopsis, Plains Bicolor (A) . . 1%
Coreopsis, Plains Red (A) . . 1.5%
Corn Poppy (A) . . 0.5%
Canterbury Bells (B) . . 0.5%
Catchfly, Tall (A) . . 0.5%
A = Annual, P = Perennial
Artist: Carol Till