Which flowers should you be cutting in your garden?

These are some of the best garden flowers for cutting

Which flowers should you cut in your garden? (Alamy/PA)

Worried that cutting flowers from you garden to enjoy indoors, may halt your outdoor blooms? Well, that rather depends on the plants. There are some flowers which rely on you cutting them during summer to give you a longer blooming season, says horticulturist Leigh Hunt.

“Annual plants have one purpose in life – to flower and set seed, which they need to do before they die. They are in a rush to do it because if they don’t set seed, they won’t produce the offspring that are going to continue the next generation of plants. It’s like a survival instinct.”