A large arrangement of beautiful and fragrant blooms brings cheer to any space. What could be better than growing your own flowers to decorate your home? Many shrubs produce fantastic flowers that beautify not only your garden, but your home, as well.
Swipe through to learn about 7 shrubs that produce terrific cut flowers.
Preferring full morning sun and a bit of afternoon shade, hydrangeas offer old-fashioned charm and enormous flower clusters in blue, pink, white and lavender. All summer long, in fact, you’ll be able to cut flower stems for your indoor arrangements. These vigorous, long-lived shrubs need fertile soil and plenty of moisture.
Dahlia is a bushy plant that produces charming, multi-petaled flowers in a wide range of colors. The flowers can be as small as 2 inches across to as large as 15 inches—you can imagine the impact of such a flower in an arrangement!
Roses, of course, are the queen of cut flowers. With thousands of varieties to choose from, you can select a type that will do well in your local conditions and that will provide you with the type of flowers you’d like to have. Roses like full sun and soil that drains well.
Add pretty asters to your cutting garden and you’ll be rewarded with masses of daisy-like flowers from summer through fall. You’ll find aster varieties that bloom in blue, pink, purple or white, and the shrubs can grow to anywhere between 1 and 6 feet tall. As a bonus, these drought-tolerant beauties attract birds to your yard.
Viburnum is a large, fast-growing shrub that produces numerous clusters of small white or pink flowers that stand out beautifully in an arrangement. The bush likes well-draining soil and full or partial sun. Water viburnum deeply once a week.
Lilac is a low-maintenance flowering shrub that produces stalks of white, violet, pink or purple flowers. These highly fragrant flowers perfume the air with the smell of spring, making a wonderful addition to a cut flower arrangement. Grow lilac in full sun in rich soil.
Add a dramatic spike of golden yellow to your springtime arrangements with forsythia. These fast-growing shrubs can get to be 10 feet wide and tall, although smaller varieties are available. They like acidic, moist, fast-draining soil and full to partial sun.