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Discover how to grow year-round flowers with top gardeners and designers Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy of The Land Gardeners. From their flower farm in France, their London studio and a selection of their favourite gardens, Henrietta and Bridget will teach you step-by-step how they grow, gather and prepare their favourite flowers across the seasons. In this course you will learn how...
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We're so excited to take you through a whole year in the cutting garden, starting in January - what you can be doing moving right through the whole year, so that you can have something to pick year-round. It doesn't need to be daunting. It's actually really simple.
The Land Gardeners
37 LESSONs / 6 HOURs
Bridget and Henrietta, The Land Gardeners, welcome you to the course, explaining how they first came to grow cut flowers as well as what they will be covering in the course.
Planning a garden is essential if you want to have cut flowers throughout the year. In this lesson, Bridget and Henrietta discuss the benefits of having a sowing and planting plan, and advise how to create a mood board for designing a garden
In this lesson, The Land Gardeners design a 4m × 8m flower bed filled with edging plants, bulbs, perennials, annuals and biennials that will produce cut flowers in all seasons. They also discuss the conditions required to achieve a well-performing cut flower bed.
You can add cutting flowers to an existing garden without having to create a dedicated flower bed. Bridget and Henrietta offer advice on how to ensure a year-round supply of cut flowers.
Areas of long grass, orchards and lawns offer opportunities for planting bulbs, shrubs and trees that can produce blooms and foliage from February to Christmas. The Land Gardeners introduce their tried and tested favourites.
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