Planting a Perennial Border for Hospice Cut Flowers
Linda has a cool story. She’s cared for her parents, worked a lot and ready to retire. But not ready to slow down. So she bought a little farm house at the edge of booming suburbs and is planning a cut flower operation– specifically to give cut flowers to local hospice centers.
She’s into nutrition, wants to keep it organic and even offer classes and gatherings in the garden.
I planned the plants. Collin did some cool welded sculptures of rebar and old farm tools. Here’s a quick video of the installation. And below that is a partial plant list of easy care, excellent cut flowers for the hottest parts of South Carolina.
We included about a dozen perennials, foliage plants, and flowers, of course; most provide both:
Salvia x ‘Jenks Farmer’ & ‘Henry Duelberg’
Achellia ‘Summer Pastels’
Crinum ‘Claude Davis’
Prunus mume ‘Omoi-no-mama’
Baptisia x ‘Carolina Moonlight’
Pennisetum ‘Princes Molly’
And since this was a fall planting, we over seeded with larkspur and scarlet frills mustard. We’ll come back later to plant Leucojum and other perennial bulbs.
Hey Jenks my voodoo llily has interesting grayish beige bumps at junctures where leaves meet the main stems.(penduncle ? petiole? I forget the term). Are these seeds, seedpods, or what? Thaks for the help! Both my blood lilies and voodoo lilies were spectacular!