Working on evaluating this year crops. What to scratch from the list because it wasn't tall enough (sorry short people, I'm with ya). What didn't bloom when needed, like a type of celosia just starting to look good, what the? Descriptions in catalogs are one thing...field performance, another. Some plants that are great, I didn't have enough of like Purple Majesty Millet. Some plants "I" love like orange cosmos but they don't always do so well in the vase. My guidelines for selection are: cutable stem length of 15-18" min, limited if any thorns, plant has a flowering period of at least a month, limited disease/virus/insect issues, vase life of 1 week, can be used within 24 hrs of picking (some fall & take 2 days to recover) flower/foliage has to be useable w/lots of others (you know get along w/everyone.) I have a dianthus that flowers red-pink-white on the same flower head. I can't design it w/anything but itself. Just a big bunch of that!
My work has a certain look, and some things I just can't use! So a perennial like that dianthus is destined for containers and headed to your garden! =)
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