Our Favorite Unique Cut Flowers You Have to Try

We all have our favorite tried and true cut flowers that will always be on our must grow list, but...we also have a list of unique cut flowers you need to try to really set your bouquets apart!  

Zinnias, snapdragons, dahlias, and celosia are always going to be great, but our must-try list this week just might add that bit of sparkle you've been looking for!

Get your notes ready and join us this week!  You may just find your new favorite cut flower variety.  

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hi, I'm Monica with Lulu the A Fields. And I'm Cassie with Coppertop Gardens. And I'm Bailey with How Home and Garden. We've been cultivating our gardens and farms for years now, but something really special was sewed when we met and began working together.

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Our shared passion for growing the best local flowers and food has made us realize the impact it's had in not only our own homes, but also in our local community.

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We are the gals who grow, and we can't wait to inspire you to grow too.

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Howdy everyone.

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Hello, hello, hello. Back from the deck.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

We did not actually die. We've been busy though. We have been. Very busy.

SPEAKER_01 0:40

It's been a crazy time of year. Yes. Things outside have been growing very, very fast.

SPEAKER_02 0:47

I mean, but a lot of work has been going on. Like, we've all been doing things. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

I have not been doing as many things as I should be doing.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

Oh my gosh. Whatever. I looked at your garden and I'm like, holy cow, Bailey. I have not. I have not. And Cassie.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

I've seen both of your gardens now, and I'm like, I've been doing some work. Yours has no weeds out front.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

Well honestly, I did drive by your house the other day and I was like, oh my gosh, my art is so pretty. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

It makes a huge difference here. I want still weeds. I want to get rid of my weeds. I got weeds everywhere, coming out of every place. It's a lot to manage.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

You should see the backyard. I'm so I like in ground beds, man. They really you gotta you have to make you have to limit yourself on the in-ground beds. I think that's my biggest problem. Unless you want to live out there. Unless you want to live out there. Or unless you're like okay to embrace it, which is where I'm at.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

Well, and you have to get them when they're young. That's what I've been trying to do. Like every morning I do a walk, and it's like if I see a weed, I pull a weed. That's actually really smart. But then you lose track of time and you relate to things, like, I'm not out there in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

Like maybe I should be.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

I was my favorite time of the day is the day that like before the girls get up in the morning. It's like five o'clock in the morning. Hey, whatever. Go out there at five o'clock in the morning. I'm up with the sun. That's where the sun too, but I'm getting ready to leave for work. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

I I'm up at six. If I had if I was going to work, go out in the garden, I'd have to be up at 5 30. I'd be out there in the dark with a flashlight.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

Head lamp. It's like light blue outside at 5. I've never heard it called that.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

It's light blue outside. I know what you're saying, though. You can see. I really enjoyed the impromptu garden tour that we got together the other day. I just was jealous because I saw the pics. Monica and I live around the corner from each other, and I was just out and the kids were playing in the yard, and I hear this. Hey, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 2:52

Yeah. She's trying to dictate my life. And then she's like, Can I come look at your garden? I was like, Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_00 3:02

What if some random person really was just like, hey, can I come look at your garden?

SPEAKER_01 3:08

Honestly. Okay, so I had a garage sale a few weekends ago and I definitely gave a couple of garden tools. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:15

People are just so interested in it because they're like, wow, how did you do that? I'm like, well, I just started throwing seeds in places and now.

SPEAKER_01 3:25

I did get shade from one person for the weeds that I had. I was like, yeah, take it. You got paid for what? I got some shade from one person for the weeds.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

Oh, but yeah. I was like, oh garden.

SPEAKER_03 3:39

I was like, I'd be like, did you buy something for me? Give it back.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

You can't have it.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

Nope. Get off my property. No, it was it was fine. I was like, yeah. We should walk around each garden and do like garden tours. Yeah, we should. We have to do it with video though, because that's just cruel.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

To be like, yeah, we could totally do it.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

Wow, it's so beautiful. Viewers have no idea what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_02 4:07

Wow, this one's really interesting.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

Yeah. Okay, I do have to ask, and maybe we can post a picture. But what the heck is growing out in your front yard that's like super tall and pink?

SPEAKER_01 4:18

I am so glad that you mentioned it because it is one of the ones I was gonna mention on this episode. Oh, it was today's episode is about unique cut flower varieties that we like to grow and recommendations for those. These are ones that like I every every one that I found that is like strange or like unique is one that I saw in Gardener's World and was like, ooh, I want that. Um, so the one that you're talking about was gonna be on my list because I use it, it only blooms once in the year. So there's that is sad, but it's called Phil, well, it's Philippingella Rubra. But its name is Queen of the Prairie for its like common name. And it acts like a status in in like arrangements, it's a filler, a really good filler. Um and it has the prettiest, if you look up close, the the flowers on it, it's pink and it's like bubbly looking, like foamy almost flowers. And it's wild. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

It gives me from a distance when I drove by, because I saw them too, and I was like, oh, those look like it not exactly like, but kind of like the trees from the Lorax. I think.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

So crazy looking.

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And I was like, that is so cool.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

Yeah, it is one of my favorites, and it only blooms once, but you get blooms for a couple of like for two weeks or so. You have to cut. I've learned this now. Do not cut it unless some of the flowers are open, or else it will wilt. It doesn't matter if they're colored up and ready. Some of them have to be open. And it opens from the base and goes to the top. Interesting. And it is, it's so pretty. I think the flowers on it are just really, really gorgeous.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

I thought it was um salogia. Like I thought it was it looked like salogia from afar, but really, really tall. I'm like, how the heck did Bailey get that tall silo?

SPEAKER_01 6:20

It is Queen of the Prairie, it looks full sun, and it I think it can do in like slightly damp-ish, like it can it can live in like slightly dampish conditions, which is what it's got out there. So it You should just do all of that in Queen of the Prairie, but only I only get it for two weeks. And then it's sort of ugly the rest of the time. Do you direct sew it? No, it's it's like a plant. I bought it as a root. I bought I bought one plant as a root, and then I divided it a bunch of times. It's a native and it's really it's just really cool. And the even the leaf shape on it is really, really neat.

SPEAKER_02 6:56

Like, definitely if you're planting it in a bed of the bed.

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It's in the back for sure.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

She's she's the queen because she's tall.

SPEAKER_00 7:05

Is she tall? She was at what ten feet? Probably not ten. I mean, I don't know. She's six feet stop me and my drugs. I'm like, what the heck? Six and a half feet, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

I know they are they are very alien in look because it looks like little pink broomsticks out there. Um, but yeah, I I had it in the wrong spot for the longest time, and then we moved it out there, and then we just started dividing it, and now I've got a whole bunch of it. So I've had it in my bouquets for the last two weeks, and I I love it because it just comes back. It's a filler.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

Take a picture.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

I've already got some. I already got some. Um, so yeah, that one is on my list of ones that I highly recommend. Um, another one that I found this year that I think is really, really cool is um Sicilian honey garlic. And this one I think I found just because I was on um like one of the bulb websites and I was just looking, and it is this really it's a bulb, so you plant it in the fall, and it blooms in these like white with like almost purpley flowers in like what like an umbrella shape.

SPEAKER_02 8:14

Yeah, it's like it's like your typical allium bloom, but the little flowers got heavy and now they're they've got down after this, yeah, like an umbrella.

SPEAKER_01 8:27

Yeah, I think it's so pretty personally, and I um put it into my arrangement for 9th Street, and I was like, I wonder, because Rachel, who is one of the owners of Ninth Street, she always notices when I have something cool that or like unique in there, and she immediately said, What is that? And I was like, It's a cilian honey garlic. And she was like, that is the coolest thing. And it had excellent base life, excellent base life. Like two weeks, easy.

SPEAKER_02 8:59

And I wonder if it'll like bloom more profusely since it's a bulb as time goes on.

SPEAKER_00 9:05

Wait, I think I've seen this before.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

Isn't it so cool?

SPEAKER_00 9:10

That is awesome.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

It looked mine have more, yeah, it's more like umbrella-y in form, but I I really, really I thought that was a really neat cut flower, and I I think alliums are sort of a slept-on cut flower. They totally are.

SPEAKER_03 9:25

I love them.

SPEAKER_01 9:26

Yeah, even like like there's the big purple ones, but there's all different colors. Like there's yellows, there's whites, there's you know, all different shapes of those. They can come in a ball form, they can come in, you know, all different types of those little yellow ones that you have out front here.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

I love those.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

I know, and those were here when I I got here. I don't even know what they are, but I think I think they're like moly.

SPEAKER_00 9:48

I feel like it starts with an M. Oh. My thing with the alum is they're just they're kind of expensive to start out. I know. But they do multiply, right? They do multiply.

SPEAKER_02 9:59

I had so many more this year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:01

I'm kind of bummed. I planted some and they never came up. It was I think I don't know, something would have ate the alum, but No.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

They don't they're not eaten by voles or moles or anything.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

My frit fritillaria. Fritillaria. And my aluminum and something else that I planted all together. None of them came up. Bummer. And actually, I didn't plant those. I feel like I was like newly postpartum, so Brandon planted them for me, so maybe he did something wrong. Maybe maybe they're too deep. Maybe he didn't plant them. He's like, he just put the popsicle sticks in the ground and label them.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

Because he did do that. He's like, I'll just say they didn't come up. In the trash thing. He never has to know what that's.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

He doesn't listen. We can talk all the shit we want to know.

SPEAKER_01 10:59

They're still in the box, just in a corner of your garage, blooming profusely. Yeah, no, I think I think bulbs are like one of the coolest ones because you do the work before you even think about them, and you don't have to really care for them much because they take care of themselves over the winter.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

I mean, I mean I'm fully switched over to the perennial life. Right? I can't I didn't think I'd ever be this person.

SPEAKER_00 11:23

Honestly, I'm I'm getting there.

SPEAKER_03 11:29

I mean, I'm so glad because I was always like, ah, that's so boring. Actually, there are so many. There's so many good ones.

SPEAKER_02 11:36

There's so many that people don't know about that, like you just have to, I don't know, find them in order to like like what's one mod that you've grown recently that's a perennial and you're using it as a cut.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

This is funny. I didn't grow it, it came with a house. Okay. And I like never cut it or thought about cutting it until I needed some greenery, and I chopped it all down all the way. This is the first time I'd ever cut it down. And this year it is prolific and it is huge, and I'm like, so all it needed was a haircut. And it's spirea. And like not the you know, the cascading spirea is really popular and pretty and it's just pink spirea. Oh, this was like just the one you the one you see everywhere? Yeah, yeah. It's all over the place.

SPEAKER_01 12:23

When we chop them all the way down, they come right back in there.

unknown 12:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:26

Yep. So if you have a spirea plant, don't sleep on it, cut it to the ground.

SPEAKER_01 12:30

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

Okay. And then it will come back bigger and better. And the blooms are just they're gorgeous this year, and they do bloom for a long time. So you can cut it, you know, it's been nice for three weeks now. Yeah, and it still looks good. And some of the blooms are dying, right? They're brown, but I could still cut one and um cut off the brown bits, but it's nice because it serves two purposes. It's a greenery and it has flowers on it. So it's a good filler. It's definitely not a focal.

SPEAKER_01 13:03

It's not a focal. Filler is important, but I also like it that some of them have like multiple tones to the leaves as well. That's really neat because it can pull in a little bit of different color. So yeah, that that that is one that I I really should go cut mine and get back. I don't. Some of them look a little, you know, worse for the wear. And I probably should just go.

SPEAKER_00 13:23

There's like um, I'm gonna mess this up. I want I always want to call it Autumn Girl, but I think it's it's not autumn girl. It's autumn something. But anyways, I'll I'll find it. Um but I just planted two of them in this spring it bloomed. It's like chartreuse. It is like true chartreuse green. And then the blooms were white, and I cannot wait for that thing to get huge.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

So pretty. I walked by we went to the zoo on Friday of the zoo garden. I literally never paid as much attention. I mean, I've always looked at the plants, but I've been reading up more on like native plants recently, and I'm like, Oh they really did their research. Like, all of these are native. Yeah. Yep. But I saw the most beautiful nine bark, and it was in the most beautiful stage of like it flowered and it's starting to go to the little berries, but it's like in that halfway point, but it is so covered, and it was just beautiful, and it was like the wine-colored leaves. Yep. I gotta have that one now. Nine bark. And I saw C. Glowgirl. I saw glow girl.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

It is not autumn anything.

SPEAKER_02 14:41

Glow girl.

SPEAKER_00 14:42

What color are the flowers on it?

SPEAKER_01 14:44

Bright pink? White, she said.

SPEAKER_00 14:46

Oh, white. White. Yeah, but then there's some pictures on the internet with yeah, no, they're white. The correct one is glow girl, and it is white. And the leaf pattern is more like round. It's like the cascading spirea. The leaf pattern's more round. The spyrea I have is pointy leaves. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, Cassie. I didn't mean mean to interrupt.

SPEAKER_02 15:12

Oh, I don't care. That's important.

SPEAKER_00 15:14

I think the sea oats is the zoo is the first place that I ever noticed the sea oats.

SPEAKER_02 15:19

And they were I mean, they were they're just a little twinkly little like they're just. I do love sea oats.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

I thought I planted sea oats from seed, but they're not. Oh. Sea oats are like the the little seed bits are flat. Yes. The ones that I planted are round. Round and they died in there thing. Because I'm like, I don't know, founders. Oh. Well, I have some. You can take some of my seed. Some of your sea? I bought two plants last year.

SPEAKER_01 15:53

Oh, you bought the plants that were round?

SPEAKER_00 15:56

No. I bought the flat. Okay. But then I bought seeds and I thought they were like the same thing. The northern sea oats, but they're probably a different sea oat.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Yeah, that's another unique cut flower, and really good because it's ready at the time of 4th of July. And I really like it for that to be able to put it into those uh they're green.

SPEAKER_00 16:19

Do they keep coming back?

SPEAKER_01 16:21

Um they'll bloom. They I I think they just come in a wave. So like if you keep cutting on them, more of them come up. I don't think they're re-blooming. I think it's just they have so many like heads a year. So I always I mean I have them for like a long time in the season. When I cut them, then I get like the ones that were coming up still come up after. Okay. But I don't think you're getting like a rebloom. I think it's just a one-time thing. But I I do love those because they they do the same thing that um what's the glitter grass? Oh, I was about to say I actually don't like that. Well, I was gonna say they it's a great substitute. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

I was literally thinking that I was like, do I say it? But I really it's called frosted explosion grass, and it's people like it though. But as a grower of it, like it spreads like wildfire, and if you don't cut it in time, it's this like thick cloud of disgusting. Don't do it. Yeah, do the COs.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

Yeah, COs is a good replacement, and it's a native, so you don't have to feel guilty. Even better. And it yeah, it does the same sort of thing in a an arrangement or a bouquet. Um, I was gonna say though, similarly to the frosted explosion grass, there's one that I really want to try that's pink mulley grass. I've heard of that.

SPEAKER_00 17:51

Yeah, I think I've seen this.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

I have heard about it, and I I have looked at it. It's almost like a pink cloud.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

But it's a perennial, right?

SPEAKER_01 17:58

But it's a perennial, and I think Is it like a big bush?

SPEAKER_00 18:01

I think so. Yeah, almost like a zebra grass kind of thing.

SPEAKER_01 18:03

I want to say that it's also potentially a name of, but I'm gonna bite my tongue and say maybe not until I I think I thought I didn't think that one was zoned for us, but I could be wrong.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

Muli is M-U-H-L-Y. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

It is pretty cool. Okay. Is it our zone? Um It's native to North America, and I know that they grow it in Ohio, so ugly cloud. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

Um, so that's one that uh you can buy 30 seeds on seedtherapy.com, not sponsored, for $2.50.

SPEAKER_01 18:47

We might be it says so it can Southern Indiana is on the my Google search says zones five through eleven.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

Yeah. So I'm Muligrass. I think you should grow this. I have a texture problem with this, so I will not be growing it.

SPEAKER_01 19:07

I don't think it looks really cool. No, it looks cool, yes. I have just yeah, wanted to try it.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

Just so I I know this is not the topic of the podcast. We maybe we can touch on this later, but I realized that all of my greens are the same in my garden. Yeah, and so I need to introduce more stuff like this. Yeah. Because I'm like, everything just looks like a green blob when it's not blooming.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

I've noticed that in my front garden, all of the greens are the same. In my back garden, I have a ton of colors, like the different nine barks and the like you know, spireas and whatever that are all different colors, but the front one is like a lot of the same green, and I need to work on that.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

I also just want to dig up all of my peonies.

SPEAKER_01 19:50

I have too many.

SPEAKER_00 19:53

And it gets old, right? Because you're looking at it and it's just green foliage. Yeah, so if anyone wants some peonies, let me know. They're the good ones. I'm gonna get rid of them, I think. What? I don't know. I girl, you're not. I just have so many that I'm like, there's no diversity.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

Well, I will say it's not a unique cut flower.

SPEAKER_00 20:12

It is not a unique cut flower.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

No, she's pretty plain as far as uniqueness goes. Beautiful, yeah, but not something people don't know about.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

Yeah. Um I was gonna say for the people who are uh needing to grow annuals because of your space, or you don't want to do the perennials, there are a couple of unique cut flowers that you can grow. Uh the one that I was thinking of is the flowering tobacco or the Nicoshiana. There's a couple of types. There's Sylvestrous and then there's Alotta. And it smells so good. It smells so good. And I think it's gaining in popularity as a cut flower, but it wasn't a few years ago.

SPEAKER_00 20:55

I do like it. I meant to grow that this year.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

The bronze queen. I'm growing.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

It's too late.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

I don't know. I don't think so. The bronze queen is beautiful. I had my first one. Yeah, I had my first blooms of that.

SPEAKER_00 21:06

I think I have seeds for that.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

It is, yeah, you do. I remember because I was like, I have that too.

SPEAKER_02 21:10

You have a lot of queen flowers, Bailey.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

Yeah, I know. I know I do.

SPEAKER_02 21:14

The Queen's Garden is in Bailey's.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

I think the real thing is everything just gets named after queens. All the roses are queens.

SPEAKER_00 21:24

Yeah, true.

SPEAKER_01 21:25

Except Bronze Queen Nicotiana. I definitely got the white Nicoshiana after seeing it on Gardener's World.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

It's so funny how people pronounce things. Because I I pronounce it Nicotiana. Nicotiana. Um yeah, I don't know. Which I'm like, it's it could be that. It's just Gardener's World. So Nicoshiana is derived from Yeah. The tobacco tobacco tobacco.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

And it is it is one it is related to the tobacco family. It is one of the tobacco family. It is one with the tobacco.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

It is one.

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I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 22:01

Okay, since we're since we're talking about animals, this this one might not be that unique, but I feel like I don't see it that often is Colundula.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

It's well, I I've tried to grow it. It's really short. I can't get it to me. No, probably not. I'm not I planted it very early, but I think the real issue is I don't have full sun, full sun where I put it.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

Oh my okay, so mine my experience was always too short too.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

Really?

SPEAKER_00 22:29

But I planted them really early this year. Like March. And they're tall. Really? In a raised bed. I just planted like a small section of them.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

I think I also bought the wrong ones. I bought one called like Zeolite or whatever, and it was like a pinky looking one, and I think it was just extra short. Okay. Because it was like no more than like my pinky in height. And I was like, I can't.

SPEAKER_02 22:51

I've only been successful with mine the first year I tried growing flowers. And I think I did plant them earlier every other like if you plant them too late, they just don't germinate. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:02

But I did start them inside. They're great for direct sewing. But for the cut flower, I started them inside because I didn't know if they were gonna germinate in the cold. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm worried about that too. The seeds kind of freak me out. Another unique one that I don't see the seeds are freaking out.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

They look like octopus tentacology.

SPEAKER_02 23:25

They look like teeth. Yes. Of sorts. Like I can't look at them too long or just like the texture issue. Apparently, I'm discovering I have some issues.

SPEAKER_00 23:41

Because the seeds grow.

SPEAKER_02 23:47

Um there is one plant that I grew as a cut flower as an annual, and it was actually from Florette's website when she was still selling like vast amounts of seeds. On her website, she called it Clary Sage. Oh yeah. And the white type it's like it was like beautiful. White and blue and pink, like mixed, but the blooms were actually the leaves, but they were colored like blooms. Yeah. And it went all the way up the stem.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

And they were just bracts. Gorgeous.

SPEAKER_02 24:23

I don't know, but I've tried to order the seed from Eden Brothers, because that's where I've gotten it, and it didn't work as well. No, it was Select Seeds, was where I ordered Clary Sage again, and it was like the biennial version, totally massive, not at all the same. Massive? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

Mine have never been massive.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

The bloom head was like. Were you trying to try the tricolor Clary Sage? I don't know. Let me see. It looks like there's Oxford Blue, also known as Salvia.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

It is in the Salvia family.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

It's in the Salvia family.

SPEAKER_02 25:02

Uh yes. It looks like, yes. That's why and they're beautiful. They're so bringing this to the list. Even just the way that they sway in the breeze when they're out in your yarn. Like so gorgeous. So gorgeous. How did they smell? They don't smell bad. Okay. They don't smell like you're like the cat piece salvia.

SPEAKER_00 25:24

So I ask because back in my essential oil days, when I was big into wearing lots of essential oils, there was an essential oil called Clary Sage, and it's supposed to be for like women's health. Yeah. Whatever, having cramps. That smell smelled so bad that I was like, I don't care what this does, I'm never wearing this.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

I'll take the cramps. I don't remember that one having a smell. Okay, good. Um, but it is it is beautiful. It is so oh it is very pretty. The Oxford blue one.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

Like just I just have had such bad luck with it. But you know what? I'm you started it from seed.

SPEAKER_02 26:08

I just direct sewed it outside and it popped up like a madhouse. And I think it does need full sun, full sun. I will say it needs full sun full sun, full sun.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

Sounds like you need to bring back that front garden, Bailey. No.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

But yes, um, I suggest finding that one because that one can be a filler. It it's just it was so pretty. I missed that plant. Like I think about that plant and I miss it. When I dream at night. When I dream at night, I dream at night. You should grow it again. I know. I I hadn't had luck finding it because I did. I ordered from Select Seeds what I thought was that sage, and it wasn't. And I literally waited three years for this plant to bloom.

SPEAKER_00 26:47

Johnny's has the Oxford blue and pink Sunday. All right.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

I literally just added the Oxford blue to my cart.

SPEAKER_00 26:54

Wait, your Johnny's cart?

SPEAKER_01 26:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

Will you add one for me too?

SPEAKER_01 26:59

I just put it in a Johnny. I don't can't promise when I'm gonna do it. I did two. It's literally over there on the counter. It just got here. Have you guys no plans to order?

SPEAKER_02 27:11

This I feel like this plant that comes to my mind.

SPEAKER_00 27:13

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SPEAKER_02 27:21

Have you guys ever grown Gara?

SPEAKER_01 27:24

Yes. I have it out front. Gara.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

Have you cut it? Yeah. How does it do? It does well. I love it. Monica, probably look it up. Okay, I'm looking at it.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

G-A-U-R-A. Or it it's also known as windflower. Does it come back for you? It does come back for me. However, I have it in a somewhat protected spot. Okay. It is next, it comes back next to my house, which is why I think it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 27:49

I always wonder because when I worked at the greenhouse in college, we sold it as an annual. Yeah. But it's beautiful. I feel like it would be a beautiful event work. It seeds itself. Does it? It does. I'm gonna get that one too. Once I get my new beds all it's beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 28:04

It looks like a bunch of little like it's not, it doesn't fill things. It's not really even a filler. It looks like butterflies. It's an accent, yeah for sure. It's not it's airy accent.

SPEAKER_02 28:14

It's not your bit of whimsy that you need in arrangement. Exactly. And it's a gorgeous color. I just love it.

SPEAKER_00 28:20

So it comes in pink or white.

SPEAKER_02 28:21

Yes. Yeah. And the pink the pink is like ombre pink to white. It's beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

Mine's white. And I I it has come back every year for me. And I was surprised because I was like, this is sort of a gamble.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

Oh, that makes me happy that it's Gara, everyone. Gara. Look it up. It's beautiful. We're gonna do a little slide. Are there any others that come to mind before we wrap it up?

SPEAKER_01 28:47

Um, I was gonna say one more that if you need like if you don't have space for shrubs or you haven't had shrubs in for a while, or you need greenery, um, Baker's Creek sold dwarf moringa seeds. And they have like a I don't want to say like a eucalyptus-y texture, but they're like um dwarf, so it's dwarf and then moringa, which moringa is sold in like a bunch of like health food stores, but it's M O R I N G A.

SPEAKER_02 29:18

Maybe that's where I've seen the word before.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

Yes, it's a lot of like teas, like moringa. Um, but those uh Baker's Creek advertises it as a good cut foliage. Really? It's very pretty. Yeah, yeah. The seeds are sort of crazy looking, they're like little brown balls.

SPEAKER_00 29:39

Am I looking at the right thing?

SPEAKER_01 29:44

Yeah. I think that's the flower on it. But the leaves it can be go into it almost looks sort of fern-like in its texture.

SPEAKER_02 29:53

It is also whimsical.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

Yeah. So it's something to keep in mind if you don't if you like just bought a property and you don't have any shrubbery or you need some easy greenery, those are ones. But I would say those are ones you have to plant pretty early in the season in order to get like a good amount of harvest off of them.

SPEAKER_02 30:10

And if you want to just level up your cut flower game, plant our list. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

You would have great variety with this for sure. Yep. And then you just add in a couple of peony bushes that Monica's getting rid of and and your own at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 30:33

Oh gosh. Well, we'll see everybody back here next week.

SPEAKER_02 30:37

Yep. See you then. Bye. Bye.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

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