No. 01
$12
Cut flower grower
Grow the flowers you want to cut
I’m Anke. I grow cut flowers on an allotment, and I sell garden planners, growing guides and bouquet cards, plus two video courses.
No. 01 Cut Flower Garden Planner
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What it is
A printable planner for one cutting garden, from a balcony of pots to a full plot. It has bed layouts, a flower chooser and a week-by-week sowing page.
Who it is for
Anyone who wants to grow flowers to cut and does not know where to start. No garden experience needed.
What you need
Balcony Six pots and a window box, planned page by page. Allotment bed One long bed of about ten metres, in rows. Full plot Four beds, a rotation and a space for dahlias. I filled in the planner on a rainy Sunday and had my first bucket of flowers by July.
- No. 02
$8No. 02 Sowing Calendar
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What it is
A sowing calendar for forty flowers, with the month to sow, the month to plant out and the month to expect the first cut.
Who it is for
Growers in a cool climate with a short season. The months can be moved a few weeks either way.
What you need
Hardy annuals Sown in autumn, they flower early the next year. Half-hardy annuals Sown indoors in spring and planted out after the last frost. Biennials and perennials Sown in summer for flowers the year after. I stuck the calendar on the shed door and stopped forgetting the second sowing.
- No. 03
$14No. 03 Dahlia Growing Guide
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What it is
A guide to growing dahlias for cutting. It follows one plant from a dry tuber in spring to a lifted tuber in autumn, with the jobs for each month.
Who it is for
People who have grown a few flowers and want one bed with armfuls of blooms. It suits a sunny, sheltered plot.
What you need
Tubers The easiest start: plant in May and cut from July. Seedlings Cheaper, and every plant is a surprise. Cuttings Take them in March from tubers you saved. My dahlias had never looked this good. The pinching page changed everything.
More downloads
Online course
My course
Video course · 6 lessons
Grow Your First Cut Flower Bed
From a bare strip of soil to a bed you can pick from every week, in six lessons.
- Choosing a spot and flowers
- Preparing the bed
- Sowing and pinching
- Planting out
- Picking and keeping the bed going
- Putting it to bed in the autumn
Printed to order
Merch
My designs, printed to order and shipped by Printful.
About
About me
I am fifty-two, and for most of my life I bought flowers. Then I took on an allotment, planted one long bed of dahlias and cosmos, and found that I could fill every vase in the house from May until the first frost. Now I grow about forty kinds, and I bring a bucket of them to a market near me on Saturdays.
I show the whole year here: sowing in the greenhouse, picking in the morning, arranging at the kitchen table, lifting tubers in the autumn. What I sell is the part that is useful to you. There are planners, growing guides and bouquet cards to print, and two video courses for growing your first bed and arranging what you pick.
Newsletter
The Sunday Bucket
A short letter every other Sunday from the allotment: what is blooming, what I sowed and one thing to try.