Growing Flowers — British Cut Flowers

Wealden Flowers will be holding a one day course aimed at small scale flower growers on Saturday 8th January 2011.

Wealden flowers courses

How to grow cut flowers will be held at Biodynamic Agricultural College Emerson College, Forest Row, Sussex, RH18 5JX on
Saturday 8th January 2011 9.30 am – 5.00 pm

During this one-day introduction Arjen Huese, organic cut flower grower and course leader for the Biodynamic Organic Horticulture Training, will explain how to grow cut flowers as a small scale enterprise.
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Cut Flower Growing Course 2011

Wealden Flowers Website – British grown cut flowers from Sussex

Grow Your Own Cut Flowers

Growing your own cut flowers can be quite inexpensive and does not have to take up too much time or space.

A couple of packets of sweet peas will provide arm fulls of blooms and can be grown against a sunny wall, fence or obelisk.

Cosmos are excellent value for money providing blooms from June through September and even October. Ranging from white, many shades of pink and even yellows and oranges, there is one to suit every arrangement. Their delicate feathery foliage form a feathery backdrop to other flowers in the garden and give softness to floral displays.

Garden Pinks are the wonderfully fragrant, more delicate version of the mass produced large carnation and can last up to two weeks in the vase. Perennial versions which flower year after year are normally bought as young plants, but can be raised from seed.

Annual versions which flower for only one season are grown from seed.

There are literally hundreds of flowers to choose from, saving a small fortune in bought flowers and providing blooms that are not only diifferent and seasonal, but many of them have a magnificent perfume so often lacking in commercial imported blooms.

To find a fantastic variety of seeds and plants visit Marshalls Seeds.

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Grow Your Own Cut Flowers

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