Best Plants For Cut Flowers
If you grow flowers in your gardens and beds, you likely also cut some of them for use in fresh arrangements. Whether you plant a special cutting garden or incorporate flowers for cutting into your flower beds, it is helpful to know which flowers lend themselves best to cutting. At Miller Plant Farm, the following are the plants that we recommend produce the best cut flowers and are seasonally for sale in our garden center:
- Asters
- Celosia (tall)
- Gomphrena
- Lisianthus
- Statice
- Strawflowers
- Sunflower
- Zinnias
Best Plants For Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds are attracted to the nectar and color of flowers, and some flowers perform better than others in a hummingbird habitat. If you want your garden to attract hummingbirds, then you will want to choose your plants to make that happen. At Miller Plant Farm, the following are the flowers that we recommend as excellent additions to your hummingbird garden.
- Agastache/Hyssop
- Buddleia/Butterfly Bush
- Calibrachoa
- Crocosmia
- Dicentra/Bleeding Hearts
- Kniphofia/Red Hot Poker
- Lantana
- Lobelia/Cardinal Flower
- Lonicera/Honeysuckle
- Lupinus/Lupine
- Mandevilla
- Penstemon/Beard Tongue
- Nicotiana
- Salvia/sage
- Salvia (Black & Blue)
- Torenia
Best Plants For Butterflies
Butterfly gardening requires that you plan your garden to attract butterflies and keep them coming back. Some plants are better than others for attracting butterflies based upon their color, shape, the nectar they produce, etc. At Miller Plant Farm, the following are the flowers that we recommend to give you many hours of enjoyable butterfly watching.
- Ajuga/Bugleweed
- Asclepias/Milkweed
- Asters
- Bacopa
- Butterfly Bush
- Coreopsis/Tickseed
- Cosmos
- Echinacea/Coneflower
- Gaura
- Hibiscus
- Hydrangea
- Lantana
- Lavender
- Lupine
- Pentas
- Phlox
- Rudbekia/Black Eyed Susan
- Verbena
- Veronica/Speedwell
- Zinnia
Best Plants For Shade
If your garden will have limited sun exposure or even full shade (less than four hours of daily sunlight), then you will want to include shade-loving plants for the best success. At Miller Plant Farm, the following are the flowers that we recommend to thrive best in shady conditions.
- New guinea impatiens
- Kong Coleus
- Dragon wing begonia
- Tuberous begonia
- Streptocarpella
- Torenia
- Impatiens
