Specialty Gardening: August in the garden, 1 by soilsandup

soilsandup wrote:
Echoes - welcome to this forum~

I can't answer for the rest of the group, but I am thinking that this thread was started a few years ago as an open-end catch all thread for people to showcase what is going on in their gardens, and not limited to cut flowers only. I also noticed that there are similar threads on currently blooming plants in the cottage garden forum, the California garden forum, etc.

I did start a thread last year concentrating on flowers that do double as cut flowers. I started the first in May, followed by a fall and winter series, and then starting anew for 2009.
The first thread is:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/847523/

The fall and winter series is: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/919760/

and then the current one: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1006044/

I don't recall having any problems with echinaceas as cut flowers. I cut some yellow ones for a July arrangement, and I think they lasted almost a week. Maybe certain varieties are not as suitable as others?

The neat thing is that there are people posting from lots of different places, including Australia and New Zealand, and our winter is their summer and vice versa.