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

What is the secret to growing abundant cut flowers even in unpredictable conditions? Here is the complete guide for your seed-to-vase journey. Grow flowers with incredible fragrance, discover gorgeous varieties, embrace sustainability and enjoy the magic of homegrown flowers.

In this book, a flower farmer shares her secrets to successfully growing cut flowers for your home, wherever you live. Whether your growing space is large or small, it’s remarkably easy to be surrounded by colour for many months of the year. Learn more about:

• 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 daylength.
• Low maintenance plants for busy people.
• Hero flowers for every season.
• Recipes for stunning arrangements.

Secrets from the Flower Farm examines innovative ways of growing and shares clever plant choices so you can cut armfuls of flowers for months on end.

Rebecca Starling is an English trained farmer-florist who studied at RHS in London, the New York Botanic Gardens and the London Flower School. She has grown flowers in her gardens in a tiny flat in London, in the mountains of Switzerland, in the humid summers and cold winters of Connecticut and now on a micro-flower farm on the coast of South Australia. Christine McCabe is the travel writer for The Australian and a passionate gardener. She is the author of Adelaide Hills Gardens (Thames & Hudson Australia).