Save Money with Summer Garden Flower Bouquets

Having fresh flowers seems like an expensive splurge, but you can save money with Summer garden flower bouquets.

It doesn’t get more fresh than picking flowers straight from your front or back yard.

Save Money with Summer Garden Flower Bouquets

Why Cut Your Garden Flowers?

The beauty of a Summer garden doesn’t only have to be enjoyed when your outdoors.

Bringing nature inside where we can see it and benefit from it’s uplifting qualities is a must.

At it’s core selfcare is about being nice to yourself.

What’s nicer than gifting yourself fresh flowers?

Fresh flowers can be prices, but you can have beautiful flower bouquets in every room of your home on a budget.

Perennial Or Annuals for a Cutting Garden?

Should you plant perennials or annuals in your cutting garden?

The answer is both!

Perennials are a huge money and time saver because they come back year after year.

Annuals may cost more in the time and money areas, but they bloom all Summer long, instead of just a few weeks as perennials do.

Having a good mixture of both perennials and annuals ensures your Summer garden will be overflowing with a diversity of blooms for flower bouquets.

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What Flowers are Best for Cutting and Bouquets?

Here is a list of the cutting flowers I have in my garden every year.

ANNUALS – Plant them every Spring for blooms all Summer

• Cosmos 
• Zinnia
• Snapdragons (Even in the cold of Michigan these annuals actually come back each year for me.)
• Dahlias

PERENNIALS – They come back year after year.

• Hydrangea
• Phlox (I have purple and white)
• Lady’s Mantle (perfect filler for bouquets)
• Calendula

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What If I Don’t Have Room for a Garden?

A garden doesn’t have to take up a lot of space. I remember when Jeremy and I first got married, we had the tiniest little back deck.

It barely held two chairs, but I had flowers in a pot and that was my garden.

The next deck was a little bigger and we had more pots, then eventually we had a condo and I had actual land!

It measured only nine square feet, but I used every inch and filled it with flowers.

Use what space you have and enjoy the gardening process.

Even if you don’t have a lot of flowers, don’t hesitate to cut them and take them inside for your bouquets.

Garden Flower Bouquet Tools and Supplies

These are the tools and supplies I keep close to our raised bed cutting garden.

• Clippers
• Garden gloves
• Bucket (for cut flowers)
• Watering can
• Basket (for clippings and debris)

Through the years I’ve learned that if I keep these items near our garden, I’m much more likely to gather up a bouquet of flowers.

Don’t let the problem of being busy stop you from enjoying nature.

Greenery in Flower Bouquets

Whenever I put together a flower bouquet I consider adding greenery.

Greenery can come from shrubs, ground cover or the leaves of flowers.

The texture greenery adds to your garden bouquets can change the whole feel of them.

Greenery brings variety and additional beauty as well as interest.

Garden Flower Bouquet Vases

As you can tell I really love flowers, but also important to an attractive flower bouquet is the vase holding the blooms.

I have a bit of a vase collection.

When you have oodles and oodles of garden flowers for bouquets you’ll need beautiful vases to display them in.

Have you been inspired to grow your own cutting flowers next Summer? You can save money and have gorgeous flower garden bouquets every day.

I hope you give it a try, you’ll be so glad you did!

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