Back in 2013 I had a friend asked me to create a flower cutting garden garden for her.  She loves creating bouquets and I was excited to start on this project.  I had no digital design skills so I just used my Paint program to create a digital plan.  I used word to create a bloom chart table so that the plan had flowers of various colors blooming all through the summer.  The images below show my first sketch and then the final layout, which has numbered plant groups--I provided a separate table for each numbered plant group (not included here).  There is a photo of the beginning of the planting process and then a photo from my friend of the garden in late summer. She remains pleased with the garden and I am sure it was a springboard for her to continue editing the garden and experimenting with new flowers for her bouquets.

 

In the photo above you can see purple asters and pink sedums; behind them, barely visible, is Helenium 'Mardi Gras', behind the Helenium is a maroon leaved shrub--a dwarf Physocarpus 'Diabolo'.  Karl Foerster grass seed heads are just to the right of the Physocarpus, and the classic Rudbeckias are to the left of it.   In front of the sedums starting from the left is a young Perovskia (aka Russian sage), the silver leaved Artemisia 'Silver Queen, an immature Montauk Daisy, and to the right, a patch of spent Coreopsis 'Mercury Rising'.  Peonies, Echinacea and a host of other perennials can be found on the opposite side of the bed.