Pick a pocket full of flowers

CUTTING: WHAT TO SOW TO FILL VASES WITH BLOOMS

- Alice Spenser-Higgs

Imagine its early morning, the garden is still fresh and cool and you are drifting through it cutting flowers to fill up jugs and vases in the home.

"Harvesting" flowers can be just as satisfying as picking vegetables and flowers are a lot less demanding to grow. Blooms that are rich in pollen or nectar, attract pollinators, as well as other beneficial insects which improves the garden's biodiversity.

The best garden cut flowers are those that flower prolifically, with long cuttable stems. Not sure where to start? Kirchhoffs cut flower collection from seed features updated and improved versions of heirloom varieties that are easy to grow garden perennials for adding height, texture, colour and a quirky charm to the garden.