A Year of Cut Flowers

Color and Joy for All Seasons

Bring the vibrant joy of your garden inside with this essential guide to growing and arranging cut flowers from Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Raven.

Find plenty of inspiration and practical advice such as:
-How to choose high, medium, and low productive cut-and-come-again plants so you can enjoy bountiful vases of home-grown blooms.
-Which plants should form the backbone of any cutting patch or garden, large or small.
-Plant rotation, with a selection of plant groups coming in and out of the same patch of soil.
-A year-round plan to achieve efficient cut flower production and ensure highest possible production from minimal space.
-How to condition and arrange your cut flowers for maximum impact and longevity.

With this information up your sleeve, you'll have a house full of flowers and a garden that looks better--always.

Since the publication of her first book The Cutting Garden Sarah has led the way over the last three decades in introducing a new kind of productive gardening which fuses intense colour, elegance and do-ability, bridging all kinds of gardening from dark rich dahlia glories to subtler smoky modern colours of poppies, roses, sweet peas, and all kinds of vegetable deliciousness. She is a teacher, broadcaster, has a popular gardening podcast Grow, Cook, Eat, Arrange with colleague Arthur Parkinson and runs a mail order plant nursery and online store sarahraven.com, (with 500,000 customers). She is the author of many books, most recently A Year Full of Flowers which was a Sunday Times bestseller.