Growing your own cutflowers is not only great for you but also for the environment. The cutflowers that you buy in shops may have traveled quite a bit, some even by plane, are wrapped in plastic and their production often involved several insecticides and other harmful chemicals. Plus many of the flowers that you’ll grow for your bouquets are great for bees and other pollinators.
With this easy plan you’ll be picking your own hand-tied flower bouquets from June till October. It’ll take up about 3m2 in your garden or allotment and it will cost around £25, depending on the seed packets you buy and what material you already have at home. You will also need some household waste like loo rolls and mushroom or butter tubs. You can use foliage and flowers that you have in your existing borders such as St John’s wort, roses and hydrangeas to add to your bouquets.
Click here to download the complete plan which consists of
- Layout of the 3m2 bed
- Flowers in the plan
- Time schedule
- Equipment needed
- Recycling material to collect