Grow Your Own Cut Flowers: a practical, step-by-step guide to growing the best flowers to pick and arrange at home (Hardback)
Sarah Raven (author)Published: 21/02/2002
If you're fed up with buying flowers to display and arrange at home, then look now further than this easy-to-follow, practical guide to growing your own cut flowers from gardening expert Sarah Raven (Gardener's World, The Daily Telegraph). With over 250 specially commissioned photos, top tips and step-by-step instructions, this book is the first step to having a house full of sophisticated and stylish home-grown arrangements!
'She makes it so simple. Once Sarah has had her way with you, you will never need to buy another bunch of out-of-season Kenyan roses again.' -- The Guardian
'Absolutely fantastic!' -- ***** Reader review
'A must for all flower lovers' -- ***** Reader review
'Inspirational' -- ***** Reader review
'Sarah Raven is the best!' -- ***** Reader review
'Beautifully illustrated and full of imaginative ideas' -- ***** Reader review
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Demystifying the world of floristry, Grow Your Own Cut Flowers by Sarah Raven (Gardener's World, The Daily Telegraph) is perfect for beginner gardeners, flower arrangers wanting to grow their own flowers and experienced gardeners wanting ideas to fill a house with their harvest.
With insider tips on sowing seed, conditioning flowers and putting together stylish arrangements for any occasion, step-by-step instructions, flowerdirectories and over 250 specially commissioned photographs, this is an invaluable, practical and accessible guide to bringing a little bit of the outside into your house in a rewarding, stylish and sustainable way.
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
ISBN: 9780563534655
Number of pages: 144
Weight: 740 g
Dimensions: 272 x 200 x 18 mm
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Everyone loves cut flowers in the house but many gardeners are loathe to cut flowers from their own gardens for fear of diminishing the dispay outside. Sarah Raven, doyenne of the cutting garden, attempts to dispel that myth in "Grow Your Own Cut Flowers", showing how the choice of plants grown affects their cutting and reflowering abilities thus getting the best of both worlds. From small town gardens to larger country gardens such as Sarah's, annuals, biennials and bulbs can be grown in such a way as to provide fresh cut flowers throughout the year. Either interspersed amongst existing borders or grown separately in a cutting garden, beautiful arrangements can be simply made whilst leaving a still colourful border intact. Easy to read, although at times more advanced than necessary for a newcomer, it gives clear instructions on how to grow the best plants, both floral and foliar, from seed, cuttings, bulbs and tubers. Cutting garden designs are included along with the best methods of sowing and aftercare. Comprehensive plant lists follow each plant type with descriptions, roles and uses together with any specific growing requirements. The book ends on examples of flower arranging and their techniques in typical Raven style - original, eclectic, bold and absolutely stunning. Beautifully photographed at Sarah Raven's house in Perch Hill, Sussex by Jonathan Buckley, the photographs inspire the reader to find out how they too can create such arrangements for themselves. As Sarah says in her introduction, "it is the generous gardener who has the most flowers" and by growing the plants in this book not only will you have a house full of flowers but a garden full too.
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