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Superstars of Summer

Bright and bountiful annuals take center stage in a cutting garden

June is nearly here, but it’s not too late to plant a cutting garden that will keep you in blooms for the rest of the summer and well into fall. I reached out to my good friend Debra Prinzing, founder of Slow Flowers Society , a community of flower farmers and floral designers who know a thing or two about growing beautiful blooms. 

“Annuals are the most affordable way to have cut flowers all summer long,” Prinzing says. “Savvy flower farmers succession sow crops of cutting garden annuals every two weeks throughout summer to keep waves of blossoming stems coming on.”

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GROW in The Seattle Times