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Annuals are most often planted because of their ability to produce flowers for cutting. Many perennials are planted for this samepurpose. There are a few perennials, such as the blanket flower,ball of snow, larkspur, and marguerite, which are benefited by con-stant cutting, and the flowering season of which is lengthened throughthis process. There are other perennials, such as the foxglove, peony,and iris, with which the process of cutting flowers does not encouragegrowth of others during the same season. If such perennials areto be used for cut-flower purposes it is best to plant them in a distinctcut-flower garden. The same discussion concerning a cut-flowergarden, and a flower garden as an interesting design, applies to theplanting of perennials in the same manner that it applies to theplanting of annuals (See Chapter XXXII, Page 238). |
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