Georgie Newbery

The Flower Farmer's Year (eBook, ePUB)

How to grow cut flowers for pleasure and profit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857842343
• Artikelnr.: 41768340

Autorenporträt

Georgie Newbery is an artisan flower farmer and florist, supplying cut flowers direct to customers from her smallholding in Somerset. Georgie set up and runs her own business and is a leading authority on growing cut flowers. She also runs courses on growing and arranging cut flowers, and on marketing via social media for fellow growers.

Inhaltsangabe

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