If I could go back to the very beginning — before the dump trucks of soil, before the seed catalogues, before I'd ever grown a single flower from seed — and hand myself a planting list, this would be it.
These are the ten flowers I would grow without hesitation. Not because they're the flashiest or the most trending, but because they perform, they're beautiful, and together they make the kind of bouquets that stop people in their tracks. I've grown all of them here at Sugar Flower Farm, and I stand behind every single one.
This is one of the questions I get asked most often, and I love it because the answer is so much more encouraging than people expect.
The short answer? Less than you think.
The longer answer is what I want to walk you through today because whether you have half an acre or a few pots on a sunny deck, there is a way to grow beautiful cut flowers in the space you already have.
I get asked about this all the time, so today I want to break it down in a way that's actually useful: what a cutting garden is, what a small-scale flower farm is, and most importantly, how to figure out which one makes sense for you.
