The Flower Farmer's Year How to Grow Cut Flowers for Pleasure and Profit

by Newbery, Georgie

• ISBN13: 9780857842336
• ISBN10: 0857842331
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-10-23
• Publisher: Green Books

Summary

Grow your own cut flowers and you can fill your house with the gorgeous colours and heavenly scents of your favourite blooms, knowing that they haven’t travelled thousands of miles – and you can make money while you do it!

Combining boundless passion with down-to-earth guidance and practical advice, Georgie Newbery draws on her own experiences as an artisan flower farmer and florist as she takes you through:
• how to start a cut-flower patch
• what to grow
• cutting, conditioning and presenting cut flowers
• creating a hedgerow Christmas
• starting a cut-flower business
• where to sell
• marketing and social media
• a flower farmer’s year planner.

Whether you want to grow for your own pleasure or start your own business, The Flower Farmer’s Year is the perfect guide.

Author Biography

Georgie Newbery is an artisan flower farmer and florist, supplying cut-flowers direct to customers from her small holding in Somerset. She is one of three southwest representatives in a new UK-wide cooperative of flower farmers. She formerly managed the features department of American Vogue in Paris and has written several novels.

Table of Contents

Foreword by James Alexander-Sinclair   

Introduction: Why grow cut flowers?   

1. Getting started   

2. Annuals   

3. Biennials   

4. Perennials   

5. Bulbs & corms   

6. Shrubs   

7. Roses  

8. Dahlias   

9. Sweet peas  

10. Herbs   

11. Wildflowers   

12. Cutting, conditioning & presenting cut flowers   

13. Hedgerow Christmas   

14. Starting a cut-flower business  

15. Where to sell   

16 . Marketing & social media   

Afterword   

Appendix 1: The flower farmer’s year planner   

Appendix 2: Plant names   

Resources   

Index