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Cutting Gardens

A cutting garden is a place to grow a variety of flowers that can be brought inside to arrange in vases and decorate your home with fabulous colors, shapes, and textures.
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Phalaenopsis Orchids

A cutting garden is a place to grow a variety of flowers that can be brought inside to arrange in vases and decorate your home with fabulous colors, shapes, and textures.

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Types of Roses

This is the most popular group of roses today. They are 3-5’ tall and 3-4’ wide upright plants that produce one large flower at the end of each stem at regular intervals of 35 to 45 days.

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Cut Flower Garden Tips

  • To keep cut flowers fresh, place them in room-temperature water as soon as possible. Make an angled cut with a sharp knife, removing 1 inch from each stem. Make this cut while stems are under water. Add floral preservative to the vase water to discourage bacteria. Remove all foliage below water level. Flowers should be kept in a cool, humid environment and be kept out of bright light and away from heating vents. Mist the air around the arrangement and change water daily. Keep flowers away from a bowl of fruit or vegetables since the ethylene gas emitted by ripening fruit can damage the flowers, as can cigarette smoke