Cut and Come Again Masterclass

DESIGNING YOUR CUT FLOWER BED: CHOOSING THE RIGHT SOIL AND ASPECT FOR YOUR PATCH

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How to grow flowers in abundance

22:05

The magic of cut-and-come-again flowers

13:51

Working with colour - Sarah’s four palettes

15:30

Working with colour - Creating flower combinations

09:27

Designing your cut flower bed: Choosing the right soil and aspect for your patch

20:22

Designing your cut flower bed: Planning the patch for season one

10:35

Designing your cut flower bed: Planning the patch for season two

04:24

Designing your cut flower bed: Planning the patch for season three

05:37

Designing your cut flower bed: Planning the patch for season four

01:56

Designing your cut flower bed: Planning the patch for season five

12:18

Creating a sowing calendar

20:56

Sarah’s favourite ways to sow seeds

07:22

Sowing sweet peas

05:17

Sowing Cobaea scandens

12:12

Pricking out and pinching out

29:52

An early spring arrangement with narcissi, wallflowers and hellebores

13:24

Preparing the soil in the cutting patch

14:53

Building a teepee for sweet peas

14:15

Planting out sweet pea seedlings

21:22

Planting out hardy annuals

02:43

Tulip blight

06:33

Picking tulips for an arrangement

20:07

A tulip arrangement with spring blossom and butterfly ranunculus

10:21

Planting out dahlias

04:13

Planting gladioli bulbs

06:09

Planting out half-hardy annuals

05:46

Planting out Cobaea scandens

09:20

Supporting the growth of scabious and Ammi majus with jute netting

03:18

Staking Ammi visnaga with a clove hitch

05:09

Supporting a dahlia with a hazel nest

12:36

The cutting patch in June

07:48

A guide to picking your flowers

07:16

Supporting growth with chestnut gates

19:53

Picking, deadheading and tying in sweet peas

04:36

The importance of pinching out

06:20

Why mulch?

04:47

How to make your patch successional

06:17

Picking and arranging with Ammi majus

16:30

An arrangement with sweet peas, cerinthe, Salvia Viridis 'Blue Monday'

12:12

The cutting patch in July

05:03

The cutting patch in September

19:47

Picking and arranging Cobaea scandens

09:32

Picking and supporting dahlias

28:45

Arranging dahlias in a grid with amaranth, dill and panicum sparking fountain

01:37

The end of the growing season

Designing your cut flower bed: Choosing the right soil and aspect for your patch

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to identify your soil type and discover the conditions you need to grow cut flowers successfully.

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Introduction

Designing and planning

Sowing

Early spring

Late spring

Early summer

Midsummer

Late summer