Eckert’s Gardening Tips:
Flowers for Cutting

There are many plants that can be enjoyed both indoors and out! These are some of our favorite plants for cutting. A clean cut with a sharp scissors or pruners helps these flowers last longer indoors.

Annuals

• Bachelor’s Button
• Zinnia
• Cosmos
• Sunflowers
• Globe Amaranth
• Celosia
• Stock
• Gazania
• Calendula
• Cleome
• Dahlia
• Marguerite Daisy
• Gerbera
• Flowering Tabacco
• Coralbells

Shrubs

• Forsythia
• Deutzia
• Rhododendron
• Mock Orange
• Hydrangea
• Spirea
• Viburnum
• Flowering Almond
• Butterfly Bush
• Roses
• Lilac

Perennials

• Yarrow
• Red Valerian/ Centranthus
• Bleeding Heart
• Blazing Star/ Liatris
• Blackeyed Susan
• Purple Coneflower
• Blanketflower
• Salvia
• Statice
• Astilbe
• Phlox
• Lavender
• Asters
• Monarda/ Bee Balm
• Shasta Daisy
• Goldenrod

Bulbs

• Tulips
• Daffodils
• Flowering Onion
• Crown Imperial
• Gladiolus