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The Cutting Garden
Growing and Arranging Garden Flowers
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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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Description
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.
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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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