<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Grow your own gorgeous flowers that fill your house with scent. Look after the planet by reducing your blooms' air miles.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Grow your own cut flowers and you can fill your house with the gorgeous colours and heavenly scents of your favourite blooms, knowing that they haven't travelled thousands of miles - and you can make money while you do it!</p><p>Combining boundless passion with down-to-earth guidance and practical advice, Georgie Newbery draws on her own experiences as an artisan flower farmer and florist as she takes you through: <br> - how to start a cut-flower patch <br> - what to grow <br> - cutting, conditioning and presenting cut flowers <br> - creating a hedgerow Christmas <br> - starting a cut-flower business <br> - where to sell <br> - marketing and social media <br> - a flower farmer's year planner.</p><p> <br> Whether you want to grow for your own pleasure or start your own business, <i>The Flower Farmer's Year</i> is the perfect guide.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"There are plenty of books on the market that discuss growing small-scale vegetables for farming and marketing; but fewer that do the same for cut flowers. That's one reason why <i>The Flower Farmer's Year</i> is a standout." --D. Donovan, <i>Midwest Book Review</i><br><br>"<i>The Flower Farmer's Year</i> is a delightful read and a solid reference book that will find a prominent place alongside Lynn Byczynski's <i>The Flower Farmer</i>, Sarah Raven's <i>The Cutting Garden</i> and other 'bibles' on every farmer-florists' bookshelf, my own included.' --Erin Benzakien, floretflowers.com<br><br>"Artisan flower farmer Newbery brings horticultural and agricultural logic to the process of farming flowers--planning, planting, growing, harvesting, and then arranging them--in a way that surprises and enlightens." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>"Georgie Newbery gives sound and cheery advice on growing, displaying and--if that is your bag--selling [flowers]." --<i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>"The author provides plenty of practical advice for obtaining floral yields even if our particular setting is hardly as conducive as hers for cut-flower production." --William Scheick, <i>Texas Gardener SEED Newsletter</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Georgie Newbery is an artisan flower farmer and florist, supplying cut flowers direct to customers from her smallholding in Somerset. Georgie set up and runs her own business and is a leading authority on growing cut flowers. She also runs courses on growing and arranging cut flowers, and on marketing via social media for fellow growers.</p><p>Image (c) Heather Edwards</p>
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