Cutting Garden Courses

Learn how to create a cutting garden for fresh flowers throughout the year

Enjoy fresh flowers throughout the year by creating your own cutting garden.  Learn about the best varieties to choose for cutting, and how to garden for cut flowers with our selection of Cutting Garden courses:

The Cutting Garden with Sarah Raven - East Sussex

If you've been thinking about creating a cutting patch, or just growing a few flowers to pick for the house, but are not sure where to start, this course will show you how.

The Cutting Garden with Rachel Petherham - Lincolnshire

Rachel’s desire for natural, seasonal and sustainably grown flowers for her wedding was the inspiration for her original cutting garden and Catkin Flowers, the business she runs from the walled cutting garden at the Belton Garden Centre.

Variety of Courses from The Walled Garden School -  Somerset

Choose from a variety of day courses at the Walled Garden School - from Annuals for the Cutting Garden, Seasonal Hand-tied bouquet to seasonal vase courses

BOOKS ABOUT CREATING A CUTTING GARDEN

Alternatively, if you want to get stuck in yourself, there are some excellent books on the subject:

- The Cutting Garden: Growing and Arranging Garden Flowers
A brilliant book - this may well become your bible.  Essential for every cutting garden enthusiast

- An American Cutting Garden: A Primer for Growing Cut Flowers Where Summers Are Hot and Winters Are Cold
An excellent choice if you are not based in the UK

- Cutting Gardens: The Complete Guide to Growing Flowers and Creating Spectacular Arrangements from

Contains an excellent plant encyclopedia - Ever wonder which cut flowers require searing, splitting or dipping into boiling water? This book has the answers...