Cut Flowers in a Raised Bed - How to Grow

In spring 2020 I transformed a really miserable place into a beautiful little cut flower garden. I dreamt about looking out from the stairs, seeing a beautiful flowering bed. A place where I could go and pick a lot of flowers for bouquets and flower arrangements. In this video you will see how this place looked before I started and my journey to make this bed filled with lush flowers.
Photo and editing: Ida Sjöö
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[@riverunner9978]

Cardboard and compost are my new best friends in flower and other beds/rows! Beauty created by your own hands, so gratifying.🌞🐝🌸🦋🌻

[@marymary5494]

Fabulous. This is the first year of my flower garden here in Donegal, Ireland. I am so excited. 👌💕

[@monachoudhary9070]

Very nice flower bed

[@Skillnadens]

Thanks a lot!

[@letsmakeamesstoday]

I would love to have a cut garden! Lovely!

[@Skillnadens]

I keep my fingers crossed you will one day! 😊

[@fabiolamejia1630]

Hi, I am Fabiola from Mexico, and I love yours videos,thanks for sharing.

[@inglishhomeandgarden8386]

Jättevackert, Sara! Bästa möjliga användning av strepan längs muren. Jag hade samma problem med omkullvälta blommor, så jag tänker sätta upp diskreta 'klematisnät' på pinnar, som jag sett andra snittblomsodlare använda. Tack för inspirationen!

[@Skillnadens]

Tack för att du följer! :)

[@NapoleonIII1]

lt's beautiful, you have inspired me. greetings from Melbourne.Australia,

[@lynn682]

So beautiful! I have 6 raised beds to work with for my cut flower garden this year. Beyond excited!

[@Skillnadens]

Best of luck! 😊

[@Risyem-vmeste11SP2i]

Thenk you, your flowers are beautifull!!! I am from Rassia, i' m speak english very bad, bat i so lovely your home and garden🙃🙂🥰

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you so much 😊

[@matildebiondi5572]

Very beautiful flowers and your sweater is beautiful too. Thank you for sharing all the process, bye from Italy

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you! All the best to you in Italy!😊

[@karenmerhalski9406]

So, so beautiful!! You are such an inspiration!!

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you so much!

[@AnneysHome]

Such a beautiful transformation you did to that place. Absolutely beautiful with the pretty flowers ❤️💐

[@Skillnadens]

I am so glad you like it. Thank you for you sweet words! 😊

[@user-vq2gj5ol9m]

너무 아름답습니다 많은 꽃들을 보고있으니 힐링이 되네요 감사합니다

[@Skillnadens]

😊😊😊

[@NorthlawnFlowerFarm]

Beautiful Sara! Well done!

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you!😊

[@kobedeister5234]

Lovely!

[@brendabriggle178]

Beautiful!

[@giovannifontana2260]

So relaxing ❤️

[@poetonsong7412]

wonderful job! such beauty

[@katipohl2431]

Aster Lady Coral Lavenderooks like a must-have. Same as bronze fennel.

[@deborahcoyle7612]

Yes, absolutely love it!

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you!😊

[@VancouverIslandgirl]

Great job can’t wait to see what you plant next spring.

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you Diane! 😊

[@dreamasue]

I love it ! It’s beautiful 💕

[@Skillnadens]

😊Thank you!

[@blueridgerunner1]

Beautiful ❤

[@Skillnadens]

😊💚

[@gardentours]

This is so great, I have to watch this video again and again.

[@Skillnadens]

Wow, thank you!😊

[@lynhodge8685]

Beautiful!!!!

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you!!

[@julesb4887]

So lovely, Sarah x.

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you!😊

[@PiaLiljebladh]

Beautiful flower bed! 😍

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you! 😊

[@DixieDoodles]

It’s absolutely beautiful Sara ❤️

[@Skillnadens]

Thak you Dixie! 😊

[@lifeinseason]

I loved the opening shot with the red house and garden! 👍

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you!

[@giomammina8965]

I super love your garden!!!

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you!😊😊

[@jenniewilliamsmural]

Wondrous transformations. Your magical garden is a microcosm of all the brilliant changes of the Geen World. And I know that your bugs and bees, birds and critters will be much happier too.... Warm regards Jennie

[@Skillnadens]

That is so true Jennie! Thank you for watching! 😊

[@terraspath2642]

Lovely flower bed Sara!💖

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you!😊

[@pantextvertalingen]

Soooo beautiful Sara! I am trying such a bed next Spring!

[@Skillnadens]

Hi Johan! You really should! It will bring you so much joy I´m sure.😊

[@cindiwhite5726]

What a beautiful use of space. I love that you also think of gifts and ways to use the flowers dried for later and fillers. Well thought out. You made me giggle when you said you didn't work your ass off.

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you so much Cindi! 😊

[@RiverPlaid]

Lovely 🌸

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you! 😊

[@rinigirl777]

¡Bravo!

[@Skillnadens]

💚😊

[@marilynH66]

It is very impressive and pleasing to the eyes, Sara!

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you so much Marilyn! 😊

[@angelotine7557]

Great work!! Congrats 👏👏

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you!😊

[@user-vx1dc5mf6j]

Beauitiful,and your sweter,you wearing,is simply beatiful. With love,betty from israel🐋💗💕💝

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you Betty! All the best to you in Israel! 😊

[@user-vx1dc5mf6j]

@@Skillnadens 💗💗🌻🌻🌻🌻 all the best.!!

[@stephenbutcher4084]

Thanks for sharing your amazing display with us, I think you have worked really well transforming your plot 👍

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you so much Stephen! 😊

[@AJ-sm1dc]

Beautiful 👍👍❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you so much 😊

[@AnaPaulaMarqueza]

Maravilhosas flores parabéns 👏👏👏

[@Skillnadens]

😊

[@cynthiafisher9907]

Thank you, Sara. I have to say, I think you worked hard doing this! It’s amazing what you accomplished with your hard work and great planning. I was happy to watch exactly how you did it. And I would also like to see exactly how you do the solar water pump for the hoses. I wonder if something like that is available in the US? Telling us about the flowers you used and loved and would do differently was also very helpful, I love all the details. I’m going to order seeds for a lot of the same flowers. Thanks for sharing about the greenery as well, I wouldn’t have thought of that.

[@jenniferbonynge5899]

I had forgotten about straw flowers and how useful they are as well as pretty! Your efforts have indeed paid off. ;0)

[@Skillnadens]

So nice of you!😊

[@daliaortiz6871]

😍😍😍 Blessings ❤🌹

[@Skillnadens]

😊

[@maryannditullio2581]

Your flowers are all beautiful! You should be very proud! I am interested in how you set up your solar watering! If you could explain that. It would be very helpful!

[@Skillnadens]

Hi Mary! Thank you for asking! www.irrigatia.com This is the link to the watering system that I use! I am very happy with this watering system and I will tell you more about it in a blog post a later on. Take care! 😊

[@priyanthialwis8811]

You are a hard woking amazing lady l like u so much,you make me happy

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you so much for your kind words! 😊

[@gerriellsworth4100]

I, too, grow bronze fennel & strawflowers, but I would you like to share Silver Queen Artemesia with you. Mine is in a freestanding area where it takes over & produces an enormous harvest of cuttings to use as filler or dried for winter arrangements & wreaths. Happy Gardening, Sara! Keep up the great work...but isn't it so much fun, too? ❤

[@Skillnadens]

Yes it is the best! Thank you for watching. All the best! 😊

[@RinkenNanda]

Hi Sarah, I love this garden! I wonder what it looks like today, before spring has really sprung. Does it only look great in (late) summer?

[@Skillnadens]

At the moment it is no flowers in the bed at allt. The garden is still frozen at night. If you follow my channel you will be able to follow the process of getting the flower bed ready until it is all flowering. The flower bed looks at its best in late summer. 😊

[@kellyantonini6986]

Hi Sarah, Thank you for sharing your wonderful cut flower bed! I have a question: where do you get your flower seeds from? :)

[@Skillnadens]

I buy them from different places. Garden center or on line. Happy Hollidays to you!😀

[@inesglos3714]

It is such a beautiful place you created. Thanks for sharing!!! Could you tell me which water system you used? I think you mentioned it in another video but I don‘t remember 🤦‍♀️

[@Skillnadens]

Hi Ines! Thank you for asking! www.irrigatia.com This is the link to the watering system that I use! I am very happy with this watering system and I will tell you more about it in a blog post a later on. Take care! 😊

[@No-Joking]

Thank you Sara. Do the asters make a good cut flower?

[@Skillnadens]

Yes it does! I I really think so! 😊🌸

[@deegibson6156]

👏👏🎉🎉💕

[@Skillnadens]

😊💚

[@tunneleddiscovery5]

Aww the pear tree. Beautiful but such a shame.

[@Skillnadens]

🥰

[@nanbeman1292]

Did you wait for cardboard to decompose before planting?

[@nanbeman1292]

Sorry, you answered my question if I had just waited

[@Skillnadens]

@@nanbeman1292 😊💚

[@cindystuder9090]

Beautiful!

[@Skillnadens]

Thank you!😊