

Why choose a cutting garden?
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Aside from having an endless supply of beautiful flowers, there are plenty of other benefits that can be derived from growing a cutting garden.
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Growing flowers makes you feel good, reduces stress and boosts the immune system.
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Bought flowers are expensive and often short lived with air miles attached.
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The Floral Garden plants are chemical free and provide a vital source of nectar and pollen for native birds, bees and butterflies.
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Handpicked, homegrown flowers can be a gorgeous gift for someone as well as opening up a creative opportunity. Learn how to make the most of your cutting garden at one of our floral workshops.

What are your best options?
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Once you have decided that you would like a cutting garden of your own, we will come to your home to discuss your best options:
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· Location (sheltered and sunny within easy reach of a water supply)
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· Raised beds – reuse existing or install new?
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· Soil type – does it need to be amended with topsoil and compost?
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· Size – how many buckets of flowers do you want each week?
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· Preferred colour schemes – soft pastels or vibrant?
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· Cost – what is your budget?
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· Timeline – plant out in May or prepare site in winter for Spring planting
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What are your floral preferences?
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· prolific annuals that grow the more you pick them (replace annually)
· perennials that offer a long season of picking (come back annually)
· dahlias that flower from July – October
· foliage with a variety of texture, shape and colour
· flowers/herbs for fragrance
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We choose each plant carefully to create the right balance of flowers and foliage and timings are considered to produce a colourful tapestry from June until the first frosts in October.
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Cost
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The starting price for a small cut flower garden in an existing raised bed is approximately £350. (4.8m x 1.2m). This will give you 2-3 buckets of flowers every week.
What’s included:
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Initial home site visit
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Planting home-grown chemical free seedlings after the last frosts have passed (usually around the first week of May)
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Providing and installing supports and stakes for plants to grow up
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Supply of organic pesticides, labels, netting
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Advice sheets on aftercare of your chosen cutting annuals and dahlias
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Follow-up service and aftercare advice

Whilst the Floral Garden Team would like to create cutting gardens all over the country, we will travel within a 15 miles radius of Haslemere, and those further afield can contact us for a remote consultancy service.
