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Grow Your Own Cut FlowersEditions
Review
Our Sarah maintains that in a plot measuring 3m x 4m she can produce flowers for the home and even hints at possible business potential. Those temptations aside, she certainly has a sensible attitude to tending her plants, selecting those to which she can apply her self-explanatory cut-and-come-again principles which apply to many annuals such as sweet-peas, marigolds and cornflowers, as well as to biennials like campanulas, foxgloves and Sweet William. She makes exceptions for her ‘indispensables’ including a wide range of dahlias and bulbs, and to soften her penchant for the lurid, a wide range of lime green foliage to separate her choices in vase and in flower-bed. This interesting volume reads a bit like a cookbook. Take a bit of this, add a bit of that and do such and such. To be honest, her taste is a bit strident for me, as I prefer a good contrast to a bad match, but she has certainly developed considerable horticultural abilities and is eager to pass on her flower-arranging skills to match them. So go for it! This kid knows her “Alliums”. - review by Stewart Grimshaw |
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John Sandoe [Books] Ltd |
The Victorians had the right idea about cut flowers. Hide them away in the walled garden, where they can be grown alphabetically, in nice straight rows regardless of any colour clashes, stake them for maximum height, cut and arrange to taste. Sadly, not too many of us these days can organise it that way, and Sarah Raven, whose roots are in professional floristry rather than in gardening, gives us her solution to a perennial problem.
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