Here’s a quick tip that will allow you to always have a fresh bouquet for your table. When you are discarding the annuals from your summer planters snip off the ends of your English or German ivy trailers. Wash them off with insecticidal soap so you won’t be bringing any little critters into the house with you. Put them into a vase (an old pitcher makes a good one) in your kitchen. Already you have an attractive arrangement for a gardener who will soon be yearning for something green. Now, the fun part!
Add a few sprigs of flowers from the grocery store or a couple snipped off the fall-blooming flowers. Replace the flowers when they become wilted. Remember to keep the water level up.
Change flowers and colors to suit the season or your mood. Come springtime you will have rooted ivy to add to your planters! If you want to grow some annuals for cutting flowers for a summer bouquet, try cosmos, sweet peas or scabiosa.
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