Late summer is one of the best times to enjoy a cutting garden! By now, warm-season flowers are often producing in abundance, filling both the garden and the vase. As the season begins to ease toward fall, there’s also something especially enjoyable about spending time among all those blooms. And if you grow cut flowers of your own, you know the joy of walking outside and bringing something beautiful back indoors.
Today’s submission comes from Morgan (@the.vintage.petal) in Dyersville, Iowa. Morgan and I studied environmental horticulture together at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville, and when I saw the beautiful cut-flower garden she has created, I knew GPOD readers would enjoy seeing it too.
My 100-by-50-foot cut-flower garden is tucked into the small town of Dyersville, Iowa, near the Field of Dreams movie site, but this is my own field of dreams for sure!
I spend Sundays just playing around, making arrangements.
In honor of Dolly 🤍
Morgan created this arrangement in memory of Dolly Parton and included Coseytown Dollys Heart dahlia (Dahlia ‘LeeAnn’s FD61A’, Zones 8–11), a deep burgundy-red dahlia bred for cutting, with strong stems that hold up well in arrangements.
Zinnias (Zinnia elegans and cvs., annual) tend to steal the show.
Early morning watering and cutting ritual.
Sunset sweeties. These zinnias may be ‘Sunset Mix’ zinnias (Zinnia elegans ‘Sunset Mix’, annual).
A little garden magic.
Zinnia season.
Thank you for sharing your gorgeous cutting garden with us, Morgan! It’s especially fun for me to see what you’ve created since our horticulture days together, and I hope we get to see more of your flowers in seasons to come.
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