Botanical Wisdom: British Blooms Mini Guide
Mini-Guide to British Blooms
Fill your garden and home with summer colour…
If vases and vases of fresh flowers around your home are what you desire, why not create a cut flower garden?
Let this mini guide to British blooms inspire you. Create a garden brimming with bright colour, scent and texture you can enjoy inside and out. Keep cutting and your efforts will be rewarded with blooms at a fraction of the cost and environmental impact of shop bought.
Planting tips for a cut flower garden
- Plant in odd numbers such as fives and sevens for continuity
- Try to layer in tiers
- Add height with towering delphiniums
- On the next level go for classic lupins
- Then hardy geraniums for interest at ground level
- No cut flower garden is complete without a scented climber… sweet peas are our personal favourite
- Herbs are great for aroma and unusual foliage for your floral arrangements
Purple Haze
- Ammi majus, or Lady’s lace
- Lynchnis foliage
- Nepata, or Cat mint
- Hardy Geranium
- Delphinium
- Lupin
- Jacob’s ladder
- Campanula
Pretty Pinks
- Silene
- Cirsium
- Cocksfoot grass
- Astrantia
- Campanula
- Sweet pea
- Black Ball Cornflower
- Mauve Cornflower
- Pink Cornflower
- Black Sweet William
- Pink Sweet William
- Hot Pink Sweet William
- Astrantia
Hedgerow Foliage
- Native fern
- Papaver Orientale flower centre
- Ammi majus
- Apple mint
- Cocksfoot grass
- Lynchis foliage
- Alchemilla mollis
- Geranium foliage
All the flowers featured were grown in the UK on the Quirky Flowers farm (featured in the previous issue of Garden Escape).
Our thanks go to owner Pam Moseley for her help in identifying them.
We had immense fun creating these ‘flat lays’ here at Garden Escape. If you would like to have a go yourself, the following websites are full of ideas and inspiration to get you started:
- For images of ‘exploded flowers’, check out FQW Images’s website
- Try slightly different angles à la Green and Gorgeous Flowers
- For stunning imagery and much more than just flat lays have a look at Éva Németh’s website
