Fill Your Home With Flowers - 3 easy grow options
- Julie @ Home On The Hill
- Mar 23
- 3 min read
Have you considered growing flowers specifically for cutting for your home?
I have 3 favourites, all low maintenance, easy grow options for you to consider that will not only give you the satisfaction of growing, them but also save you money and fill your home with flowers for much of the year, as both fresh and dried arrangements. The price of a bunch of fresh flowers, even ones from the supermarket, let alone a florist, can be quite expensive and would cost you literally hundreds per week to buy if you had several bunches throughout the home if you bought fresh flowers weekly to replace spent blooms.
Dahlias
I fell in love with this dahlia - Cafe Au Lait, with it's soft colour palette of cream blended with peach and pink tones, it's looks like a watercolour painted with petals. Growing dahlias was way easier than I ever thought it would be, and I never realised how many subtle colours were available always thinking of them as bright strong coloured flowers. You buy them as dormant tubers, pop them in the ground after the frosts of Winter have passed, and watch them grow into the most amazing prolific flower producers for months and months. The flowers last for a long time when cut, I usually get a week at least if they are picked when the bud has only just fully opened and each plant can have many flowers at one time.
Make sure to be ready to stake them as they grow as the stems can snap if it's windy and some grow quite tall. They like a spot with at least 6 hours of sun a day and good drainage - there are loads of You Tube videos and websites with instructions on how to grow them - they are well worth the time.
The flowers come in a huge range of colours from the very bright to the delicately soft and often the colour matures as they age. The flower shapes range from the oh so tidy pom pom types to cactus and waterlily styles. I really enjoy the loose flower types most of all. The flower size on dahlias ranges from the petite anemone styles to as big as dinner plates in the right growing conditions. These flowers literally offer something for every taste and colour palette.
Here are a few more of them growing in my garden.
Top Row - L - R: Cafe Au Lait in rear and Kelgai Ann front, Fracap, Urica
Bottom Row - L-R: Jody Lyn, Kelgai Ann, Mauve Speckles
2. Hydrangea Paniculata
The deciduous hydrangea paniculata blooms on new wood, so it's easy to just cut back in Winter and wait for the masses of blooms in early Summer/Autumn. Many of the newer 'Fraise' range also change colour, starting out white and aging into beautiful variations of pink. I also find they turn a more maroon pink with some green as well as they age into Autumn. If you pick them once the flowers have matured you can dry them easily by just letting the water in the vase evaporate and then remove any leaves. The flowers eventually turn a lovely rusty brown colour and can last for years if you are careful with them.
They are easy to grow and can take more sun than some other hydrangea types, ours get sun up until midday then shade in the afternoon, they are very easy care and low water usage.
3. Statice
This old world flower is almost like a dried flower even when fresh, you can easily dry it in the vase by letting the water evaporate and the statice retains it's colour for months and months. The traditional plant was a deep purple in colour, but new variations now offer white, blue, pink, yellow and salmon.
This bunch of statice below was picked 4 months ago and they still look as good as they day they went into the vase. They are easy to grow, tough low growing plants with leathery leaves and the flowers are born on stalks that rise above the plant.
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