Getting excited about growing a colorful cutting garden is pretty easy this time of year. Seed catalogues spark our imaginations with romantic descriptions and colorful images of summer. Growing a cutting garden can be easy, is bound to be beautiful and can provide a very important resource for your vegetable garden. Flowers attract pollinating and other beneficial insects to the garden, so by planting an array of flowers in the yard you are contributing to the biological diversity of your neighborhood.
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All photos by Hilary Dahl