Oh, and of course, you have to have cutting flowers in your garden.  This is Sweet William, or Dianthus, same family as Carnations.  

 

I am generally one for growing edible stuff, but one year I bought a pack of wildflower seeds, and sowed them in the upper garden along with all the wild Oxeye daisies.  Each year, something new has come up.  This year it is Dianthus.  There are white ones, pink ones, and these gorgeous fuchsia ones.  They grow on sturdy stems, and are great for cut flowers.  We had one last over a week in a vase.  But they are so pretty out in the garden, I just leave them there.  

 

I hope they reseed themselves, so we have them next year too.  If they don’t reseed, it is worth buying more seeds because they are so pretty, and easy to grow.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!