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Description
Whether you want to grow for pleasure or start your own business, The Flower Farmer's Year is the perfect guide.
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 in this delightful guide. The Flower Farmer's Year covers everything, from how to start a cut-flower patch and guidance on what to grow, to cutting, conditioning and presenting cut flowers, and creating a hedgerow for Christmas.
For those interested in selling cut-flowers, the guide includes useful information on how to start a business, including where to sell cut-flowers, and marketing and social media tips. A flower farmer's year planner is also provided to make your cut-flower farm as productive as possible.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
Published | 23 Oct 2014 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9780857842336 |
Imprint | Green Books |
Illustrations | Full colour photos throughout |
Dimensions | 255 x 205 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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With such a friendly writing style, it is easy to imagine cutting your home-grown blooms in the morning and delivering them to the local florist, with the author at your side. [...] For those who want to grow cut flowers simply for pleasure and to fill their home with blooms, this book is also essential reading.
RHS The Garden
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Georgie Newbery gives sound and cheery advice on growing, displaying and - if that is your bag - selling [flowers] in The Flower Farmer's Year.
The Sunday Times
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The Flower Farmer's Year gives advice targeted to our mild, dark-in-winter climate, and also gives practical advice on both preparing flowers for sale, and most importantly of all perhaps, how to actually sell them!
The Oak Tree Low Carbon Farm
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A real treat for anyone who love to grow flowers for business or pleasure.
All That Women Want
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It's the sort of book that will make you want to jack in your day job and start growing sweet peas, dahlias and roses for a living.
The Bath Magazine
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Whether you're an amateur gardener or aspiring artisanal florist the book won't be read just once, with its wealth of invaluable information and beautiful pictures you'll find yourself returning to Georgie's blooming corner of Somerset again and again.
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