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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Iris giganticaerulea 'Boutte'
Item #: 17196
Zones: 6a to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 48" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $28.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris lazica
Item #: 2523
Zones: 7b to 9b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Caucasus Mountains, Mediterranean Europe, Turkey
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $27.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris x louisiana 'Geisha Eyes'
Item #: 3912
Zones: 6a to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 30" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $28.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris x louisiana 'Red Velvet Elvis'
Item #: 8905
Zones: 6a to 10b
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $28.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris x pseudata 'Yarai'
Item #: 10881
Zones: 5a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $28.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris x robusta 'Gerald Darby'
Item #: 1708
Zones: 4a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun to Light Shade
Origin: United States Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $28.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris unguicularis 'Dazzling Eyes'
Item #: 9823
Zones: 6b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $29.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris unguicularis 'Francis Wolseley'
Item #: 6636
Zones: 6b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 20" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mediterranean Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $29.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris unguicularis 'Front Drive'
Item #: 18523
Zones: 6b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Africa, Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris unguicularis 'Winter Echoes'
Item #: 9981
Zones: 6b to 9b
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $29.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Iris versicolor 'John Wood'
Item #: 3908
Zones: 3a to 9b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 42" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $28.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Isodon effusus
Item #: 5413
Zones: 6a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $22.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Jasminum officinale 'Frojas'
Item #: 6245
Zones: 7a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 120" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Juncus inflexus 'Afro'
Item #: 2925
Zones: 4a to 10b
Dormancy:
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $23.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Kniphofia 'Flashpoint' PP 31,282
Item #: 17090
Zones: 5b to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 54" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Kniphofia 'Hot and Cold' PP 31,185
Item #: 13574
Zones: 5b to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outKniphofia 'Lola'
Item #: 4345
Zones: 6a to 10b, guessing
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 84" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Kniphofia 'Orange Blaze' PP 31,545
Item #: 13572
Zones: 5b to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 24" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Kniphofia 'Rocket's Red Glare' PP 30,772
Item #: 13573
Zones: 5b to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Kniphofia rooperi
Item #: 3036
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: South Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $26.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Kniphofia 'Tiki Torch'
Item #: 16744
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 42" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid, South Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $27.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Kniphofia 'Yellow Cheer'
Item #: 1574
Zones: 7a to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 52" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Hybrid, South Africa
Pot Size: 2 qt. (1.9 L)
Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Sold outKosteletzkya virginica 'ACE Basin'
Item #: 9520
Zones: 5a to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 60" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $24.00Regular priceUnit price per -
Lachnocaulon anceps 'Johnston Gem'
Item #: 18756
Zones: 7a to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 5" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)
Regular price $24.00Regular 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.