If you love the idea of having beautiful flowers on your table but don’t love the idea of spending hours in the garden, a lazy girl cut flower garden is exactly what you need. Growing your own bouquets doesn’t have to mean complicated planting plans, daily maintenance, or perfect rows. With the right easy-to-grow flowers and a few simple strategies, you can plant once, do very little, and still enjoy armfuls of beautiful blooms all season long. This garden layout will show you how to grow low-effort cut flowers that work for busy schedules, beginner gardeners, and anyone who prefers a “plant it and let it grow” approach. Although most of these flowers are annuals I pick flowers that reseed very easily. Although it will look different every year, you will likely never have to replant this garden layout ever again!

Flowers

Cosmos

Cosmos are the perfect fairy, whimsical flower. These will bloom after the sweet peas, and keep blooming all summer and fall. Cosmos come in so many different colors, and different shaped petals. Some petal shapes look like seashells, single petals, many petals, two toned, SO many different varieties. 

Calendula

Not only an easy plant to grow from seeds, calendula has medicinal properties and can be used to make tinctures and salves. Calendula reseeds easily and I also have it popping up all over my garden without me even planting it!

Yarrow

Yarrow is a perennial meaning it will come back year after year. Yarrow brings both structure and durability to cut flower arrangements. With its flat-topped clusters in yellow, white, pink, or red, yarrow is a staple for rustic or wildflower-style bouquets. It also works great as a dried flower for flowers all year long. Yarrow also has medicinal properties! All the details to grow Yarrow HERE

Branching Sunflowers

To be honest, I did not like sunflowers before I started growing them. In fact the only reason I grew them was because I had other flowers that didn’t grow and I didn’t want a blank spot in my garden. I have grown to love specific types of sunflowers, so if you are like me and don’t think you like them, give a new variety a chance and see if it changes your mind. How to grow sunflowers from seeds found HERE

Snapdragons

Snapdragons give your arrangements more visual interest and are so easy to grow they grow without me even planting them! Snapdragons can be purchased as a plant start, but you will have limited options and varieties. If you are willing to start them from seeds you have so many beautiful options and colors that you never see at the store or rarely anywhere else. For an extra lazy girl growing I like to just buy started plants at the plant nursery. Just make sure to not get the container variety so your flowers will be nice and tall for vases.

Zinnias

Like cosmos, zinnias come in countless varieties, sizes and shapes. They have a great vase life and have nice long stems. They also attract butterflies and hummingbirds as an added bonus! Zinnias are not fussy and love heat and will grow well in poor soil.

Bonus: Tulips and Daffodils

Tulips and Daffodils have to be the easiest flowers to grow. Plant the bulbs in the fall, forget them and enjoy them as the first flowers to bloom in the spring. There are SO many varieties of daffodils and tulips. It is amazing all the different shapes, colors, and petals. There is a variety that everyone will love. You can line the border of the garden. They will bloom before you need to plant any of the rest of the flowers. Just note that they might not come back the next year because the bulb didn’t have enough time to grow before you cut the flower off.

Garden Layout

For all of these flowers check the seed packet for needed spacing, planting depth, and timing. Hope you enjoy this easy garden layout!

As always,

Grow flower to heal your soul

Beth