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The Cutting Garden

Growing and Arranging Garden Flowers
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The Cutting Garden by Sarah Raven is a practical guide to cultivating a beautiful and well-stocked garden specifically for cutting flowers. It teaches readers how to grow decorative flowers and foliage and offers advice on planning, planting, and maintaining their own cutting garden. The book also demonstrates how to create a variety of floral arrangements, from simple bunches to romantic hanging globes, swags, and medallions.
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Ideal for gardening enthusiasts and those interested in floral design who wish to enhance their home with fresh, homegrown flowers.

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How to plan and create a cutting garden from which glorious flower arrangements can be created.

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This practical guide shows how to grow decorative flowers and foliage and use them to create floral arrangements. Plans, plant, and maintain a well-stocked cutting garden, and demonstrate how to create arrangements ranging from simple bunches to romantic hanging globes, swags, and medallions.

The Cutting Garden by Sarah Raven is your essential resource for turning your garden into a vibrant source of stunning floral creations.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711234659

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 June 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Frances Lincoln

Illustration: 250 photographs, 5 illustrative garden plans

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Penelope Hobhouse
  • By Pia Tryde

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 255.0mm

Height: 255.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 168

About the Author

SARAH RAVEN , writer, cook, broadcaster and teacher, is an expert on all things to grow, cut and eat from your garden. She runs cooking, flower arranging and gardening courses from her farm in East Sussex and is the author of several books on gardening, including The Cutting Garden, which won the Garden Writers' Guild Award for Best Specialist Gardening Book in 1993. She also writes for national newspapers and magazines and is a presenter on BBC Gardeners' World. Sarah is married to the writer Adam Nicolson and has two daughters and three stepsons. They live at Perch Hill Farm in East Sussex. PIA TRYDE is an internationally-acclaimed photographer. She lives in Sutton, Suffolk. PENELOPE HOBHOUSE is internationally-renowned as a garden designer, writer and historian. She holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society. She has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Guild of Garden Writers and a Quill and Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association of America.

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