Sowing Seeds

I’ve dreamed of having a dedicated cut flower garden in our yard for quite a while. Today is part 1 of project cut flower garden. To start to realize this dream we’re sowing seeds!

If you’ve been a long time reader you know just how much I LOVE flowers. I love making pretty arrangements for our home. You can see some here, here, and here. Our property was pretty much a blank canvas when we moved in and we’ve created an area for a vegetable garden and have lush plantings around the pool area. I shared all my favorite plants and flowers here. I always cut from our yard but part of me feels bad about bringing these gorgeous blooms inside.

So we’ve decided to have a dedicated flower cutting garden behind the pool house.

We have plenty of space back there and it will be in full sun.

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Sowing Seeds

We got the majority of our seeds from Floret Flower Farm. You can shop seeds here.

Here’s some of the seeds we’re sowing:

We’re planting:

• Corn Cockle
• Sweet Peas (several varieties – as they remind me of our wedding in England, we had little bud vases on each table)
• Dahlias
• Queen Anne’s Lace
• Poppies

I also had other seeds of Cosmos, Bells of Ireland, and Zinnias.

To start our planting process, we bought seed trays. We have some with watering tray underneath and that’s what Erin at Floret recommends. We also got some like this.

To Plant in Trays

We followed the instructions and watered the pellets after 4 minutes they were ready for planting.

We placed one seed per hole except for the very small seeds like Queen Anne’s Lace.

We covered over with extra soil. Labeled our rows. Then placed the covers on.

We’ve placed our seedling trays in the playroom which stays warm – 70 degrees all day and night and gets loads of light. This room has 11 windows. I would have done them in our sunroom which also has many windows but it’s unheated.

Floret Flower Farm has a great video series which I’ll link below in a few resources. Erin recommends using lights and heat mats but since our sunroom gets so much light and is warm we’re trying to grow them without these.

Unbelieveably we already have some seedlings popping up!

Each morning I go in a check on them. To make sure everything looks okay and I give them a bit more water.

It really feels magical to watch these little seedlings grow.

Soon we’ll need to build our raised beds. Luke was going to build me beds from scratch but we found these at Home Depot when we were last up there.

Resources for Cut Flower Gardens

Books

• Discovering Dahlias
• Cut Flower Garden
• A Year in Flowers

Video Series

This free video course by Floret is great and offers and introduction to seed starting.

Tips Sheets

Another great resource on flower – starting seeds and information on just about EVERY flower here.

Local Resource

Local friends on the South Shore – I highly recommend Holly Hill Farm in Cohasset we get many seedlings for our garden and I got beautiful Zinnia seedlings there last year. They have a plant sale that’s coming up this spring and also have a lovely farm stand and walking trails. My kids have done camp there, too.

I also recommend Cross Street Flower Farm. They offer many classes and sell gorgeous flowers. They sometimes sell planting supplies, too.

Kennedy’s Country Gardens has seeds and trays as well.

We’re really excited for our cut flower garden adventure. Fingers crossed we get some beautiful flowers!

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