Flower Arranging

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Sarah Raven's tips and advice on flower arranging
make your own Christmas decorations

The more you can pick from your garden, collect in a wood or harvest from the hedgerow to decorate your house at Christmas the better.

You'll save yourself a fortune - and, what's more, it is ultra-fashionable. Craft is all the rage and...

flower grid making instructions

Flower grids are an essential part of the flower arranger’s kit and this step by step guide will show you how to make beautiful arrangements with them.

 

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How do you fancy an incredibly beautiful, long lasting, deliciously scented and spectacular table centre which will be at its best over Christmas and New Year? You can make it little or large, and that can mean huge if you have the space. It will...

Did you know that the retail value of the cut flower industry in Britain is worth over two billion pounds? That’s the same as the UK music industry, yet only 10% or those flowers are British grown, compared to nearly half twenty years ago. So that...
Sarah holding a bunch of home-grown scented narcissi.
Last summer, I made a programme for Gardener’s World about the British cut flower industry. What we asked was why so many of us are concerned that our strawberries and French beans were flown from the other side of the world, but we didn’t seem...