Southern Gardening Guide

Spruce up your garden with fresh ideas and simple how-tos

Bountiful Blooms

Michelle Roth shares the romance of flowers with fresh-picked bouquets from her garden.

Ralph Anderson, Ellen Ruoff Riley

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Grow Your Own

To begin a cutting garden, use Michelle’s list as a guide for plentiful blooms.
Perennials
• Summer phlox (Phlox paniculata)
• Purple coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea)
• Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta)
• Mexican bush sage (Salvia leucantha)
• Dahlias
• Garden gladiolus

Annuals
• Zinnias
• Sunflowers
• Mexican sunflowers (Tithonia rotundifolia)
• Spider flowers (Cleome hasslerana)
• Wheat celosias (Celosia spicata)

Fillers
• Persian shield (Strobilanthes dyeranus)
• Coleus
(sun and shade selections)
• Sprenger asparagus (Asparagus densiflorus ‘Sprengeri’)