DERRY WATKINS - SPECIAL PLANTS

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Plants for Cut Flowers

The following usually last well in water (or are good dried). Some are for foliage Fo, some are for flower Fl, some are for drying D. Flowers and foliage almost always lasts longer in water if 'conditioned', ie stood in deep water for several hours in a cool dark place

My Favourite Flowers for Cutting:

Ammi visnaga
Calendula Touch of Red buff
Bupleurum longifolium
Antirrhinums
Cleomes
Cosmos purity
Dianthus ‘Bouquet Purple’
Digitalis Pam’s Choice
Geum Blazing Sunset
Grasses –almost all – see below
Knautia macedonica
Lathyrus odoratus ‘Matucana’ (sweet pea)
Linaria purpurea Canon Went
Lobelia (hardy herbaceous)
Nigella papillosa
Papaver nudicaule (Iceland Poppy)
Rudbeckia Cherokee Sunset
Scabiosa Derry’s Black
Tithonia
Veronicastrum
Zinnia Gren Envy


My Favourite Grasses for Cutting
Almost all grasses cut well and look great with flowers,

Agrostis Fibre Optics
Calamagrostis brachytricha
Miscanthus all
Oryzopsis miliacea
Pennisetum villosum
Panicum miliaceum Violaceum
Phaenospoerma

 

People use all the following for Cut Flowers:

Acacia
Acanthus
Achillea
Aconitum
Actaea
Adenophora
Aethionema
Agapanthus
Agastache
Ageratum
Alcaea (hollyhock)
Alchemilla
Allium
Alstroemeria
Amaranthus
Amaryllis
Ammi
Amsonia
Anemone altaica
Anemone sylvestris
Anemone (Japanese)
Anemonella
Antirrhinum
Aquilegia
Artemisia lactiflora '
Arum italicum ssp. italicum
Aruncus
Asclepias
Asters (New World)
Astilbe
Astrantia
Baptisia
Belamcanda
Bergenia
Bletilla striata
Boltonia
Bracteantha
Bromus
Buddleia
Bulbs –most
Bupleurum
Calendula
Campanula
Canna
Centaurea
Centranthus
Chelone
Chiastophyllum
Chrysanthemum
Cimicifuga
Clarkia
Cleome
Coreopsis
Cortaderia
Cosmos
Crocosmia
Delphinium
Dianthus
Dicentra
Dictamnus
Digitalis


Dodecatheon
Echinacea
Eryngium
Eucalyptus
Eupatorium
Euphorbia
Gerbera
Genista
Geum
Gladiolus
Grasses –almost all
Gypsophila
Helenium
Helianthus
Helichrysum
Heliopsis
Heuchera
Heucherella
Hyacinthoides
Hydrangea
Inula
Iris
Knautia
Lathyrus odoratus (sweet pea)
Liatris
Lilium
Limonium
Linaria purpurea
Lobelia (hardy herbaceous)
Lychnis
Lysimachia
Miscanthus
Molucella
Monarda
Nigella
Panicum
Patrinia
Penstemon
Perovskia
Persicaria
Phlox
Physotegia
Platycodon
Polemonium
Polygonatum
Rudbeckia
Salvia
Scabiosa
Schizostylis
Sedum
Smilacina
Solidago
Stokesia
Tagetes
Thermopsis
Tiarella
Tithonia
Tradescantia
Tricyrtis
Trollius
Veronica
Veronicastrum
Zephyranthes
Zinnia

 

Derry Watkins, Special Plants, Greenways Lane, Cold Ashton, Chippenham, Wiltshire SN14 8LA
tel: (01225) 891686 website: www.specialplants.net email: derry@specialplants.net

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