allotment flowers

[Nicos]

Ok ...so I can grow daffs and sunflowers with slug control...what should I try this year as a cut flower??...(sweet peas were covered in greenfly and beetles last year!!) need to be able to be neglected for 1-2 weeks at a time!! (peat soil)

[sandersj89]

I grew a whole selection of stuff including:

Cornflower
Statice
Sweet William
Sweet Pea
Aster
Echinacia
Anenome
Dahlia
Chrysanthemum
Tulip
Sun Flower
Pink
Delphinium
Fresia

The easiest are without doubt sweet william, pinks, statice and cornflower. They need little attention and flower over a long period. Also you can dry both the statice and cornflower so they last very well in the house, 2 years!

HTH

Jerry

[Lesley Jay]

We grow the sweet peas in the garden - up the side of the greenhouse. At the allotment chrysanthemums and spray chrysanthemums which last for ever as a cut flower. Asters and sweet williams. This year we are also growing gladioli, dahlias, pinks and echinacea. So it should be nice and colourful.

[andrewo]

I've always liked whire cosmos and sunflowers on the allotment. Cosmos just keep flowering all summer and well into autumn.