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What if I told you there is a way to have a garden full of flowers, from early spring to late fall and, unlike gardening with perennials, the more flowers you picked, the more your plants would bloom? What if you’d spend the same amount of time gardening, yet you’d have buckets of fresh flowers to bring indoors every week? Imagine a home filled with color, scent and beauty, day after day, all of it from your garden. Sounds impossible, right?
If you love flowers and would like to start a cut flower patch, or maximize the flower production in your existing beds, Sarah Raven’s Create Academy course on gardening with cut-and-come-again plants will change the way you look at gardening forever. Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned gardener, this course is for anyone who has a bit of space to grow flowers for picking, and not a whole lot of time to spare.
As a novice gardener with a thumb that’s lesser than green, I knew little to nothing about annuals before taking this class. Erroneously, I thought perennials, since they come back year after year, were the name of the game and the only investment worth making for my garden. But if you, like me, are always left with a choice between having flowers in the garden, or having flowers on your night stand, then perennials alone won’t do the trick.
British gardener Sarah Raven has spent the last thirty years experimenting with cut-and-come-again flowers at her home in East Sussex, and in this class she shares her knowledge about efficient flower production in a way that is clear, systematic and easy to follow. The class is focused on annuals, biennials, tender tubers (dahlias), and a few cut-and-come-again perennials. Unlike perennial borders filled with plants that flower once a year for a couple of weeks, at most, the right annuals for our gardens can be fantastic producers, flowering week after week, for months on end.
Through several hours of instruction and stunning photography, Sarah Raven teaches the way to have both in abundance. We learn about the best plants to grow with ease, the fundamentals of color schemes, plant maintenance and companion planting for pest control, tips for picking and conditioning for prolonged vase life, and we do it all while escaping into a world of flowers, color and beauty. The promise of this class is not only a garden full of flowers, but a house full of flowers as well. Much like growing edibles, you’ll get to pick and enjoy your harvest, week after week.
If you, too, would like to grow flowers for picking, efficiently and with minimum space, time and effort spent, then I highly recommend Sarah’s class. It’s the perfect antidote to gray winter days when nothing stirs in the garden, and I think you’ll love it! An excerpt of the course can be found on Youtube (below).
Cut and Come Again Masterclass
Wishing you a fun weekend!
