Grow Your Own Cut Flowers with Sarah Raven at Perch Hill Farm, East Sussex

Sarah loves being able to pick armfuls of flowers for a good nine months of the year and in this day course will teach you how, giving you hard facts on how to succeed with growing the very best and most productive plants. Through the day we will also give you practical advice on seed sowing and propagation, soil conditioning, mulching, staking and all the most important things we have found to help us succeed with nine month round flower production. See all you've been taught come to life at Perch Hill, with plenty of time to privately explore the garden.

Learn how to prepare, plant, maintain and harvest buckets of flowers from your garden from March through to November. We'll cover hardy and half-hardy annuals, biennials and sweet peas as well as tulips and other bulbs. You will also learn the best sowing and growing techniques so you can achieve easy yet brilliant results and plant rotation through the seasons to make the most of whatever space you have, little or large. We'll also cover flower conditioning techniques to make all your cut flowers last well in the vase.

• This course is taught by Sarah with assistance from Josie, her head gardener.
• It is a lecture with slides format, with some practical demos with the Perch Hill gardeners.
• You will also get a course hand-out covering all the information Sarah teaches on the day.
• It is held at Sarah's home - Perch Hill Farm, Brightling, Robertsbridge, East Sussex TN32 5HP
• The day lasts from 10.30 until 5pm including tea/coffee on arrival, (from 10am for 10.30 prompt start)