Grow Your Own Cut Flowers with Sarah Raven at Rutland Nursery, Oakham

Based on her brand new book, learn all you need to know about how, which and what to grow for high production and maximum vase life flowers.

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 to succeed with growing the very best and most productive plants. Throughout 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.

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 Josie. You will also get a course hand-out covering all the information Sarah teaches on the day
• It is held at Rutland Nursery, Lyndon Road, Manton, Rutland, LE15 8RN
• The day lasts from 10.30am until 3pm - including tea/coffee on arrival (from 10am for 10.30am prompt start), morning tea/coffee break and a lunch too