Sunday, January 23, 2022
As a continuation of my previous bouquets from 2021, here's a pretty thorough overview of the bouquets I grew from my gardens in 2021. We start with single daffodils:
April 20 and 21, 2021
Followed shortly by double daffodils and hyacinths.
April 22 and 29, 2021
A month or two later we have white peonies, and then pink peonies one week after them.
June 4 and 12, 2021
Around the same time, the Sweet William appear in the wildflower stump bed.
June 8, 2021
Then the real action begins: queen lime zinnia, echinacea, breadseed poppies, hyssop, fireball monarda, white globe thistle, and sensation mix cosmos.
July 15 and August 12, 2021
The peony ducchess apricot asters then appear and multiply, and we get the first of MANY Beatrice dahlia blooms, pompom type.
August 18 and 21, 2021
I add in some blooms from the Open Garden for variety: lavender and anise hyssop.
August 24 and 29, 2021
We had hydrangea before, but now they really start to take off, adding some pops of blue against all the neon colors.
September 3 and 8, 2021
Once the Night Silence, Labyrinth Two-Tone, and Caitlin's Joy dahlias appear, then we're really cooking with fire!
September 13 and 17, 2021
Pink Runner dahlia blooms and that's the last of the dahlia varieties from this season (Copper Boy was not happy where I put him). This produces some seriously PINK bouquets, which can be counter-balanced by other options in the garden: asparagus greens, foxglove, sky blue butterfly bush, mint vines, catmint leaves, and hyssop.
September 21 and October 2, 2021
At this point in the season, I could just walk through all the gardens and pick random items for bouquets. Here I've added carrot greens and the re-blooming bearded iris when it re-bloomed! A bit of late-season goldenrod from the meadows also makes an appearance.
October 5 and 10, 2021
Just remixing what I've incorporated into previous bouquets. Nothing new appears from here on out.
October 14 and 15, 2021
The last bouquet of the season was picked on October 29! That is VERY late. Frost didn't really come until November, although the plants weren't producing the huge blooms from earlier in the season. More modestly-sized ones, as they adjusted to the waning daily sunlight.
October 29, 2021
Overall, I'd say I had a VERY successful first year of growing a cut flower garden! It helps to be growing lots of things in lots of different spaces, that was I don't have to plan as carefully. But it also just helps to grow easy and beautiful blooms.
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