Secrets from the Flower Farm : Growing Abundant Flowers in Unpredictable Conditions

Learn how to grow exquisitely beautiful cut flowers wherever you live in this climate-conscious guide.

What is the secret to growing abundant cut flowers even in unpredictable conditions? This complete guide to the seed-to-vase journey reveals how to grow flowers with incredible fragrance, embrace sustainability, and discover gorgeous new varieties of homegrown blooms.

Flower farmer Rebecca Starling shares her secrets to successfully growing cut flowers for the home. Whether a growing space is large or small, it’s remarkably easy to be surrounded by color for many months of the year. Flower-farm secrets include unusual, heirloom, and new plant choices; trending plants and flower fashion; cold-hardy, heat-tolerant, and drought-resistant plants; soil blocking and successful growing from seed; drying your own flowers; the importance of day length; low-maintenance plants for busy people; hero flowers for every season; and recipes for stunning arrangements.

Secrets from the Flower Farm examines innovative ways of growing, and shares the clever plant choices that will produce armfuls of flowers to be cut for months on end.

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Rebecca Starling is an English trained farmer-florist who studied at the Royal Horticultural Society in London, the New York Botanical Garden, the Master Gardener program, and the London Flower School. She has grown flowers in places with wildly different climatic conditions, from a thatched Cambridgeshire cottage to the mountains of Switzerland, from the humid summers and cold winters of Connecticut to her current home on a flower farm on the coast of South Australia.

Christine McCabe is an expert gardener and a senior contributing editor for The Weekend Australian's Travel + Luxury supplement. She is the author of Adelaide Hills Gardens.