Easy cut flower garden plan from seed!

Growing your own cut flowers at home can be simple with this ready to go plan of direct seeded and planted flowers--no seed starting needed! We are giving you a ready to go plan for a 4x8 garden bed, complete with information for succession planting for continuous blooms all season. We also go over some tips and tricks for direct seeding success!

In our plan, the left side of the screen is the North side and therefore where we place the taller sunflowers. Remember you may need to adjust the plan depending on orientation of your garden bed!

You will need:
-one packet sunflower seeds (or more if doing multiple varieties)
-one packet cosmo seeds (or more if doing multiple varieties)
-10 dahlia tubers
-one packet zinnia seeds (or more if doing multiple varieties)
-four garden mums for cutting (we like those from bluestone perennials) or can substitute nasturtium, calendula, marigold.

[heathertrent]

I needed this video! I watched the initial cut flower garden video! I love seeing the plan in real life!

[daphvk]

Is there a updated video to see what the beds look like?

[kiatorres-gubaton]

I love watching all your beautiful flowers. I just wish you make more videos of harvesting it and bouquet-making too!💮💮💮

[serenababy]

I loved this video. It was so helpful to see it layed out and explained in detail. Thank you for demonstrating. I have my 1st 4x8 raised flowerbed set up. Hoping to get 1 more setup before end of April.

[cathypolera]

This is so helpful for my personal raised bed cutting garden. I hope you will show us the progress as the time goes along. Thank you.

[nivekmic]

I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you! I have not planted a flower garden before and your videos inspired me to give it a shot. I followed your instructions and needless to say my front yard has tons of very pretty blooms and I love it! I have found I like the Xzinas the most simply because the blooms last so long, but the variety of blooms and the colors is all very fun and very pretty. Anyway, thank you!

[anabellabalbuena]

This video inspired me to finish my beds without started indoor plants. Saved me so much time

[katebarrett]

What a great video - you showed so much helpful detail and I loved the tips about pests at the end. Thank you and happy zinnia and dahlia growing!!

[pamelacook]

Extremely helpful to see your plan and how you accomplish this task.

[kawerkamp]

Your videos are the BEST! Always packed with experience and info, yet so accessible and I appreciate that you *show* us how you do each and every step. The soy sauce/vinegar trap is new to me--great tip.

[terriwilliams]

This is amazing. I usually plant seed mixes for variety, but I now want to try it with more intention.

I am going to add more sunflowers to my garden in a couple of weeks.

[daisyblooms]

Can't wait to see what this looks like all grown out!

[alyssapappas]

I just planted this garden based on your plan yesterday! We definitely have some digging squirrels so I need to pick up some burlap!

[cogasawara]

I love your cut flower plans! Thank you! 🌸

[maryellenlistermann]

Thank you so much for this informative video. I'm starting my first cut flower garden this week. Can't wait to see the results!!

[PegsGarden]

I am new to your channel and I am enjoying watching your videos🌱🌱🌺🌻🌼

[charlesbale]

Enjoyed the video and always appreciate the information.

[nicolephillips]

Perfect timing! I am just getting a new in ground bed going that we are making a cut flower garden. This gave me some good ideas and thank you for the tips for keeping birds away! I love my birds but they sure mess with my direct seeding.

[ginasharpe]

Thank you for showing how you do this. I have my written plan and will be planting all my seeds today. I'm planting in raised beds in Pine. I'm so excited and grateful that you have showed us exactly how to do this.

[cynthewild]

Not sure how possible it is to predict, but on average, if we followed this plan, how many bouquets would you be able to get out of a bed this size per week?