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The Flower Farmer's Year

Growing Flowers for Pleasure and Profit

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The Flower Farmer's Year

Growing Flowers for Pleasure and Profit

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Description

A modern guide to help you grow cut flowers for pleasure or profit.

Fill your home with the colours and scents of flowers you've planted yourself, and enjoy the daily practice of mindfulness, patience and creativity that growing them brings.

In The Flower Farmer's Year, artisan flower farmer, florist, and educator Georgie Newbery shares everything you need to know; from starting a cut-flower patch, optimising bed layout and choosing what to grow, to cutting, conditioning, and arranging your flowers. A fully revised year planner is also included to keep your land productive all year.

And if you discover you love to grow flowers, and you have too many to fit on your kitchen table, and more than your friends can enjoy, you might consider selling some. This new edition offers down-to-earth guidance and expert advice on making a profit from cut flowers, marketing your business, and making the most of social media.

Whether you dream of armfuls of sustainable homegrown flowers for your home or a family wedding, or your objective is to earn a living doing something you love, this is the book for you.

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

Product details

Published Jun 30 2026
Format Paperback
Edition 2nd
Extent 304
ISBN 9781399418744
Imprint Green Books
Illustrations Colour photos and illustrations throughout
Dimensions 9 x 8 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Georgie Newbery

Georgie Newbery is an artisan flower farmer and fl…

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