I love Gloriosa daisies mixed with grasses and Queen Anne's Lace. Michaelmas and Shasta daisies I've used in bouquets. Then there's Peonies (long lasting) and roses which I like on their own.

Annette

I like to cut black-eyed susans, roses, russian sage, zinnias, and coneflowers. I also usually have quite a few cosmos to cut from.

I don't have a cutting garden and rarely am willing to sacrifice my outdoor blooms for a bouquet, but when I do, it's usually some combination of: larkspur, coneflowers, lavender, parsley after it's bolted, beautyberry, salvia leucantha & cosmos. Sometimes I use something like wax myrtle or pittosporum as a base/filler, too.

I like smaller bouquets and use pretty cream pitchers as my vase. I'm fond of zinnias. My favorite filler is artemesia Powis Castle. Both last a long time. This year I've added cosmos to the garden so these also will be added to the vases.

Like Treelover above, I really don't have a designated cutting garden, but just scout the garden for a flower here and there to snip for the house. - June

I have to remind myself to take bouquets!

I like zinnias, cosmos, black eyed susans, heliopsis, various salvias, russian sage, daisies, and larkspur (when I have them). I am growing the double gypsophila this year which is my all-time favorite filler.

I have found clematis make a wonderful small bouquet with a long vase life.

Peonies last a very long time too if cut in the right stage.

I love iris but they just don't last long in the vase.

Glads are another pretty one but are kind of difficult to use.

No designated bed.....but I cut them wherever I please....it is my garden.

I love lilies in a vase but am rarely willing to cut because of sacrificing the leaves for next years blooms. If I ever get really ambitious and wealthy, I would like to have a huge row of lilies just for cutting!

Thanks for all the ideas. I have Russian sage and will give it a try this year.

One flower I am trying this year (and it is very cottagey) is orlaya. I am really liking it a lot and it lasts a long time in a vase. I did direct sowing with seed. I could see this being a nice filler in the cottage garden.

Teresa

I love to cut Dahlias, and it takes a bit of time to search out those that are best for stems, but they last a good length of time in the vase.
Spireas (including foliage of the Ogon)
Roses
nandina foliage
daisies
zinnias
bachelor buttons
corepsis
sprays of purple hyacinth bean vines to hang out the side

My cottage garden started out as a cutting garden.
Now I see my garden as one outdoor GIANT BOUQUET.

Libby

I don't have a separate cutting garden, either. Dd is the one who usually asks for cut flowers, esp recently. Interesting GGG that you mentioned spirea - dd begged and begged for me to cut a large branch of my bridal wreath spirea! Since it is still pretty small, we compromised with a very small one.