How to Grow Your Wedding Flowers: Top Tips & Freebie
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding. It is incredibly satisfying to grow your own wedding flowers, it takes planning and and patience, this guide is to help you get started.
The free guide contains guidance and top tips direct from a flower farmer and florist, with over 10 year experience creating romantic, beautiful wedding flower arrangements using seasonal cottage cut flowers.
Included in the guide:
Why grow your own wedding flowers, the reasons that people across the country grow, and is it right for you, your wedding and your venue
Which flowers you will need in a bridal bouquet? From focals, to fillers, to foliage and what to add to create wedding flowers with something extra special
Bride bouquet flower reciepes for Summer, Spring and Winter, filled with scent and movement.
When to plant, and what? From Spring bulbs, to successional sowing of annuals and forcing bulbs in the Winter - when to start your wedding flowers
How many flowers do you really need to create wedding arrangements for the bridal party? How many stems for bridal bouquets, bridesmaids, buttonholes and flowergirl posies
How many flowers do you really need to create wedding arrangements for the ceremony and venue? How many stems for bud vases, for jam jars, for large jugs and pedestal arrangements?
Which flowers for your wedding month? What is in bloom and at it's best from January to December?
Which flowers hold up out of water and can be used for bouquets and buttonholes? Which foliage for ceiling hoops and chandeliers?
So the plan is made, you now know how many, and which varities of flowers you need, this guide also details the important stages of growing;
How much space do you need to grow enough flowers for your wedding? Can you grow in a small backgarden? Is it possible to create all your wedding flower arrangements from a small cutting patch? Spacing guide for planting your seedlings.
How to make a cut flower patch? What size and what materials do you need?
Ground preparation for your patch
When to plant your seeds: from hardy, half-hardy and tender annuals?
And all importantly, what do you if you have climate or pest pressure, what is the back-up if slugs munch through your flowers, or there is a late frost?