Top 7 Old Fashioned Flowers for Your Garden : A flower garden brings joy, and growing these lovely old-fashioned blooms is not as hard as you would think when you use some tried-and-true favourites.
Top 7 Old Fashioned Flowers for Your Garden
The reason these flower kinds bring back memories of your grandma is that traditional cottage garden blossoms have long been in style. Maybe it’s because they are easy to cultivate, resilient, and, once established, will happily surprise you every year if you give them frequent watering.
Furthermore, as we devote more time to caring for plants at home, many kinds are seeing a revival in our gardens. Try them out, and you may discover that you have Grandma’s green thumb.
1. Hydrangea
Hydrangeas, Nanna’s favourite and easiest plant to grow from cuttings, require a lot of water every day. Positioning these summer blooming beauties in full sun to semi-shade helps protect them from the harsh summertime sun.
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2. Sweet pea
As the story goes, plant sweet peas in a sunny area on St. Patrick’s Day (17 March), for a large crop in the spring. Sweet peas are delicate and pleasantly perfumed. As the tendrils get thicker, provide support with trellis, climbing frames, or against a fence. Gather the charmingly vintage blooms as they emerge, and more will come.
3. Larkspur
A traditional favourite for cottage gardens, this vintage bloom is more delicate than its larger sibling, the delphinium, and looks stunning when planted in large quantities. It blooms in the spring and summer and, once planted, self-seeds to return every year.
4. Poppies
Who can go past a poppy? Enjoying a resurgence in popularity, commercial growers are experimenting with size and colour blocking to produce some incredible blooms. In your garden, their gently nodding heads blowing in the breeze like paper to add a bright pop of colour from late winter into spring and summer.
5. Love-in-a-mist
This woman is quite outdated. Nigella damascena is a robust plant with powerfully scented seeds that can be picked and dry-roasted for salads and curries, but it also produces beautiful star-like pale blue and white blossoms atop ephemeral-leafed stems.
6. Hollyhocks
Another cottage garden classic, the hollyhock adds wow factor to your garden, growing striking flower-covered stems up to 3 metres tall. Great to add height to your garden, they’re easy to grow and flower in full sun.
7. The Rudbeckian
Cone flowers, also known as rudbeckias, are tall, bright yellow flowers with delicate petals surrounding a black core, resembling an Echinacea. Nick Vale of Sydney’s Garden Life is a lover of rudbeckias, also referred to as “black-eyed Susans.” “I love rudbeckias!” he exclaims. “They work well planted all in a big drift, then you can interplant with other flowers like lilies, all growing up on top of them.”