The great part about growing your own perennial cut flowers, is that you are not limited to the same varieties you find in commercial florists. Choose something more exotic and out of the ordinary from our selection of the best flowers for your cut flower garden.
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Farfugium japonicum 'Wild One'
Item #: 18070
Zones: 7a to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China, Japan, Korea
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $21.60Regular priceUnit price per$27.00Sale price $21.60
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Fatshedera lizei 'Angyo Star'
Item #: 7230
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 60" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web'
Item #: 5141
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $24.80Regular priceUnit price per$31.00Sale price $24.80Sale -
Sold outFreesia laxa 'Lavender Lady'
Item #: 17753
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Sun to Light Shade
Origin: South Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $21.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Freesia laxa 'Rainbow'
Item #: 19113
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Sun to Light Shade
Origin: South Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $20.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Fuchsia 'Sanihanf'
Item #: 7450
Zones: 7a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outGaura lindheimeri 'Pink Cloud'
Item #: 3989
Zones: 6a to 10b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $22.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Gentiana 'True Blue' PP 20,433
Item #: 8505
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $19.20Regular priceUnit price per$24.00Sale price $19.20Sale -
Gladiolus 'Firedance'
Item #: 17873
Zones: 7a to 10b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 40" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $20.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Gloxinia 'Little Red'
Item #: 11082
Zones: 7b to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 16" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $23.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Gloxinia nematanthodes 'Evita'
Item #: 5556
Zones: 7b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Argentina
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $23.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Hedychium 'Anne Bishop'
Item #: 9272
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 60" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $34.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Hedychium coccineum 'Slim's Orange'
Item #: 8231
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 2 qt. (1.9 L)
Regular price $29.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Hedychium coronarium
Item #: 1308
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 60" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Tropical Asia
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $32.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Hedychium 'Daniel Weeks'
Item #: 3218
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 50" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $26.40Regular priceUnit price per$33.00Sale price $26.40Sale -
Hedychium deceptum
Item #: 15005
Zones: 8a to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Assam region of India, Burma/Myanmar, India
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $36.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Hedychium 'Fiesta'
Item #: 9683
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 72" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $27.20Regular priceUnit price per$34.00Sale price $27.20Sale -
Hedychium flavum 'Prayer Flags'
Item #: 6731
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 84" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Vietnam
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Hedychium gardnerianum 'Compactum'
Item #: 2991
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Nepal
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $34.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Hedychium 'Kin Ôgi'
Item #: 7459
Zones: 7b to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 72" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 2 qt. (1.9 L)
Regular price $27.20Regular priceUnit price per$34.00Sale price $27.20
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Hedychium 'Raffillii'
Item #: 4693
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 72" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Himalayan Mountains, Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Hedychium 'Vanilla Ice'
Item #: 8099
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3 qt. (2.8 L)
Regular price $39.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Helianthus angustifolius 'Berkeley Gold'
Item #: 18028
Zones: 6a to 9b, guessing
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $23.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outHelicodiceros muscivorus
Item #: 8667
Zones: 6a to 10b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Mediterranean Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $27.00Regular priceUnit price per
More Information About Cut Flower Plants
Enjoy a bouquet from the garden with perennial flowering plants. Many wonderful flowering perennials also make great cut flower plants that you can enjoy both outdoors and in. Here at Plant Delights Nursery, we have an enormous on-line plant catalog and have searched through it to create this mini-catalog of cut flower plants that look great in the perennial garden landscape with blooms that look just as good in a vase.
When you grow cut flower plants you are not limited to the same old roses and sunflowers that are ubiquitous in every flower shop. Some cut flower plants produce fantastic flowers that never make it to commercial florists because they do not travel or keep well for very long. While some perennials have a short flowering period, other perennials bloom all summer and provide cut flowers all season long.
Some of Our Favorite Cut Flower Perennials
Try growing some of the following perennial flowering plants that will give you access to some exotic and beautiful cut flowers that are definitely out of the ordinary: agapanthus, arisaema, ornamental grasses, aster, hardy orchids, brugmansia, canna, crinum, dianthus and many, many more.
Or try growing these flowers that bloom all summer for a never ending supply of cut flowers. Long blooming perennials include: abutilon, agastache, alstroemeria, buddleia, baptisia, echinacea, lantana, leucanthemum, lavandula, and salvia.
When you are ready to buy cut flower plants for your perennial garden, check out our online list of cut flower plants including many perennials that bloom all summer for sale.