The Best Cut Flowers to Grow in 2025

As I start the very first seeds of Garden 2025, I’m eager to share the cut flowers I’m most looking forward to growing this season. Some are beloved varieties I’ve grown for years, others are ones I missed last year, and a few are making a return because they were such standouts in 2024. Whether you’re new to flower farming, just starting with cut flowers, or somewhere in between, I hope you’ll find some inspiration here to fuel your own growing journey!

Curious to know what I grew in past years? Check out my other lists below:

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10 Best Flowers for your Zone 3 Cutting Garden

1. Anemones

I finally had a good anemone year in 2024, and, hopefully, I will never be without them again! Any customer who got an anemone in their bouquet last year was completely delighted.

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2. Borage

Growing borage is the most reliable way to make sure you always have something blue in your garden! (And they’re way less annoying to cut than bachelor’s buttons.)

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Related: Feeling Blue in the Garden? These Flowers Have Your Back!

3. Lisianthus

For all the Mocha Mousse girlies out there, I am growing Rosanne Brown and Terracotta lisianthis this year. I even got my seeds before the colour was announced!

Related: Grow a Garden Full of Pantone’s 2025 Colour of the Year!

4. Ranunculus

I finally had a good ranunculus year in 2024, so I doubled down and made sure to get all the really pretty colours this time!

5. Snapdragons

If it could be said that there are backbone flowers in my business, snapdragons are one of them. I really succeeded with early timings in 2024, though my main season crop was a victim of “the crops that Kristen will inevitably destroy because she gets overwhelmed” catastrophe.

Snaps go well with everything, and it’s so nice to have a second flush! They come in so many gorgeous colours… What’s not to love? (Except the highlighter yellow snapdragon… no one loves that.)

6. Statice

Statice is also a backbone crop for me. This year, I only had maybe like 10-feet of statice because the rest got wrecked. It was kind of a tragedy, as I use these in almost every dried arrangement I create.

7. Strawflowers

I had a 40-foot row of strawflowers in 2024 and it wasn’t quite enough. This year, I’m aiming for two 40-foot rows! My goal is to actually use them in season instead of hoarding every single one of them for the off season.

8. Sweet Annie

Sweet Annie was new to me in 2024, and I’m so glad I grew them. They are so easy to grow, and I personally love the scent, though some people can be allergic. (Plus, they dry beautifully for pumpkin arrangements!)

Related: 25+ Best Flowers to Grow for Dried Flower Arrangements

9. Websteriana Eucalyptus

This variety of eucalyptus has heart shaped leaves!! I’m so excited to grow this for the first time this year. Even though I’d already ordered like 500 seeds of eucalyptus before ordering these seeds, I just had to try it. I’m a sucker for all things heart shaped!

10. Zinnias

I’m going full force on zinnias this year, and I made sure that I grabbed mass amounts of all of my favourites! I really missed my 40-foot row of zinnias in the worst way possible last year, and I must have it again!

Flowers I Won’t Grow Again

Floss Flowers

2023 was the last year I grew floss flowers (also known as ageratum), and I did not miss them in my cut flower garden last year. There’s nothing inherently wrong with them. They are very pretty and they grow fine, but in a bouquet they’re decidedly “meh.”

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