Cutting Garden

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Cutting gardens are one of the most inspiring and useful of gardens. Rows of tulips, hyacinth and gladiolas provide beauty in large numbers. When they’re cut and arranged, they provide an indoor garden. These types of gardens are unusual to find in the typical garden. They’re traditionally found only on larger properties, in commercial gardens, or at wedding venues. But, if you have any kind of yard with a large sunny area, you can easily grow your own flowers for arrangements.

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Tulip Cutting Gardens via Proper Gardens.

Most cutting gardens require fences or thick hedges, as the fragrant blooms are very attractive to rabbits and deer.

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Cutting Garden via Bouquet Delivery.

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Lytes Cary Manor Cutting Garden via Ask.com.

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Martha Stewart’s Hyacinth Cutting Garden via the Martha Blog.

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Tulips at Sarah Raven’s Perch Hill Garden via Courgette Surprise. Gladiola cutting garden via The Easy Gardener.

Perch Hill contains extensive gardens, providing fresh vegetables and flowers for cooking and floristry courses. It’s located in England. Did you know that our European friends spend three times as much as us Americans on flowers each year? Sad, isn’t it?! I say we band together and reverse that trend. One tulip bed at a time.

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Market Show Cutting Garden via Victoria’s Backyard.

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Oyster Bay Cove Cutting Garden via Gardening and Gardens.

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Cutting Garden by Statile and Todd.

What would be a feature on cutting gardens without a few images of what you can create from your garden? Here are a few of my favorite garden flowers used in bouquets and centerpieces.