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Like zinnias, you can start them indoors or sow directly in the garden and have flowers in about eight weeks. Marigolds have long been favorites in the garden, but they also make great cut flowers. Once you plant cosmos in the garden, you may be rewarded with volunteer seedlings in subsequent years. Plant tall varieties en masse to eliminate the need for staking, or grow shorter varieties like Sonata and Cosmic. The fine foliage adds texture to the garden, and the white, pink, or lavender blooms light up the midsummer through fall garden. Start cosmos seeds indoors four to six weeks before the last spring frost, or sow directly in the garden. Like zinnias, cosmos make great cut flowers, and both are heat and drought tolerant in the garden. Grow taller varieties like Benary’s Giant for long stems, Queeny Lime Orange or Zowie! Yellow Flame for eye-catching color, or Profusion and Zahara for small, daisy-like flowers on compact mildew-resistant plants in your low-maintenance cut flower garden.

Either way, you’ll have flowers about eight weeks after planting. Start zinnia seeds indoors four weeks before the last spring frost, or sow them directly in the garden. Here are a few easy-care annual flowers you can start from seed indoors or directly in the garden. Supplementing them with perennial flowers and bulbs means you need to plant fewer annuals each year for a season filled with colorful, garden-fresh bouquets. You’ll need to plant annuals each year, but you may decide the continuous bloom is well worth the effort. Just follow the directions on the seed packet.Īnnual flowers are known for all-season bloom and long vase life. If you’re not in a hurry, want to stretch your budget and extend your garden’s bloom time, sow some seeds directly in the garden. You’ll jump-start the season and enjoy earlier blooms by starting some of the seeds indoors to transfer into the garden after the danger of frost has passed.

Just fill a few vacant spaces, add an extra row in garden beds or fill a container with easy-care flowers started from seeds. You don’t need a lot of space or a big budget to grow and enjoy garden-fresh bouquets.