A Cutting Garden Designed for Bouquet Makers

Designed by Beth Benjamin, this cutting garden stages blooms in four rows plus a rear border for continuous harvest.

Front Row: Purplish-blue cerinthe and darker purple love-in-a-mist surround phlox.
Second Row: White cosmos flanked by chartreuse bells-of-Ireland backed by white Ammi majus (bishop's lace).
Third Row: Zinnias on either side of blue, rose, and white salvia.
Fourth Row: Deep red love-lies-bleeding (left) and cherry pink cleome (right) flank pink/rose cosmos.
Rear: Sunflowers at back, strawflowers at far ends.

First to bloom: love-in-a-mist and Ammi majus—cut and gone before others peak. As summer annuals fade, replace with spring-blooming annuals like larkspur (Consolida ajacis) and cornflower (Centaurea cyanus).