Cut flowers look great in a vase on the kitchen counter, don't they? But you may be ambivalent about growing your own cut flowers in backyard cutting gardens, since removing the flowers means depriving your backyard of the color they bring, right? Marie Iannotti, however, points to a solution, observing that "some flowers lend themselves to this seeming abuse and come back and flower all the stronger." So by growing the right flowers for cutting gardens, you're not robbing Peter to pay Paul; rather, it's a win-win situation.

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