The Flower Garden: A Guide to Growing Cut Flowers on Your Windowsill

by Jennita Jansen

Overview

Discover how to grow without a garden and reconnect with nature as you create an abundant flower meadow from your windowsill.

The Flower Garden is a beautifully illustrated guide to show you how to start growing stunning blooms even in the smallest of spaces. Covering all the basics from growing from seed, how to maximise your space to understanding your light and drying flowers; this book is an essential reference to those with an urban space and who are itching to get planting.

Packed with 'recipes' for the best flowers to grow throughout the year – you will soon have a balcony or roof terrace covered in enviable blooms to admire, pick or share.

This neat, easy-to-use format is aimed at gardening beginners, looking to grow their own flower garden.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787136915
Publisher:	Quadrille
Publication date:	05/13/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	39 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Jennita Jansen is the founder of Plukatelier (the picking workshop). Plukatelier was born out of her love for flowers and the desire to fill her life with blooms in all shapes and forms. Jennita's fondness for flowers grew from her passion for gardening a few years ago when she took over a small space, where she started growing vegetables, fruits and flowers. Soon it became clear that Jennita enjoyed growing flowers the most so she expanded to set up a small-scale flower nursery and have been cultivating beautiful bloom ever since.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Basics 6

Pre-sowing and sowing 11

Caring for your plants 19

Working with the sun 24

Sun and shade flowers 29

Preparing the boxes 40

Part 2 Planting Schemes 42

Boxes for Sun 44

Super seasonal bloomers 46

Heralders of spring 51

Sun lovers 54

Fresh and dried 59

Little sweetheart sweet pea 62

Wild and waving grass 67

Bee and butterfly buddies 70

Creating a wildlife garden 75

Echinacea and sunflowers 79

Box full of dahlias 82

Partial Shade Boxes 86

Beautiful bulbs 89

Cottage garden box 92

Green winter box 97

Cheerful shade bloomers 100

Late bloomers 105

Winter colour 108

Part 3 Cutting and Styling Flowers 112

The secret of a lovely bunch 120

Drying flowers 125