Plan a Cutting Garden
by Claire, September 14th, 2010 in Green & Eco Living, In the Garden
Last Friday I spent a wonderful, if slightly damp day on the picturesque Herefordshire/Wales border learning how to plan a cutting garden.
The course was run by Charlie Ryrie from
The Real Cut Flower Garden – a fabulous mail order company supplying traditional English country bouquets from March through to November.
The Real Cut Flower Garden offers a beautiful and much greener alternative to the high street florist and it was great to see that there is a growing demand for more sustainable flowers.
Charlie shared what she had learnt from setting up her own business very openly and her passion and energy were infectious – I came away thinking what an amazing way to make a living and pondering how I might go about buying a large field! On reflection, and having got a sense of just how hard Charlie works I know that the time isn’t right for me at the moment – certainly not on a large scale anyway, plus I already have two little people that get me up at silly hours in the morning.
That isn’t to say that one day I might fulfill a dream of having a real live shop filled with vintage goodies and gorgeous home-grown blooms. In the meantime, I will certainly be applying what I’ve learnt on a much smaller scale in my own garden so that I can enjoy flowers indoors for the majority of the year.
