Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms

A very colourful book with great photographs of flowers in Washington State, USA. Still useful for growers in the UK as there are useful guidelines for a wide range of cut flowers. Experienced growers may not find much beyond the range of species that they already grow but they can still enjoy the colours.

What a fantastic book. I am one of the many that have pre-ordered this book, making it the number one best-seller in its category on amazon even before it was published. I first came across the author on her blog, having done a google search on a particular flower. Her generous and informative style there should have forewarned me of what to expect, but I am still blown away by this heavy-weight and inspirational book about how to grow, harvest and arrange arrange seasonal flowers accompanied by the most beautiful photography. This is not the only book I own on this subject, but is definitely more in-depth than the others. Whilst there are the expected and useful types of flowers that can be grown in each season, including Erin's favourite varieties, the list is much broader than in my other books. For example, using flowering branches, winter forcing branches, delicate-flowered bulbs, fruits and foliage, vegetables, vines, and grains and pods. I particularly like her 'vase life tricks' at the end of each individual entry. This includes details such as at what stage to pick the flower, whether the flower is likely to unfurl or the stem to lengthen after picking and how long each bloom will last, as well as information like wearing gloves to protect against irritant sap. Her growing seasons/climate in the Washington state appear to be similar to mine in the UK. However, the information she provides on, for example, timing for seed sowing can be used anywhere because as she explains, your growing season is determined by your region's dates of first and last frosts, so you count forward or back from those dates to work out how to get the most from your seasons by successional sowing. All in all, this is an incredibly inspirational and rigorously practical book on growing, packed full of detail with wonderful images showing both individual flowers varieties and completed projects. Once I have got over the sheer joy of simply reading it I can foresee me referring to it time and time again as my most valuable reference book on the subject and the productivity of my garden with go through the roof! I am so looking forward to this growing year. Well done Erin!

This is an outstanding book. Erin goes through each stage of how to plant, where to plant and when to plant. It's the most useful book I've read. I love the matt finish of the pages and it smells lovely (for a bookaholic like me!) I would give it more than 5* if possible. The only suggestion I would make to slightly improve the usability of the book, would be to have a ribbon book mark attached to the inside spine - so you don't loose your place!!

Beautiful and inspirational book, really enjoying dipping in and out of it. Gorgeous photographs and useful tips for conditioning flowers. Whether it's worth the almost 8 week delivery delay is debatable. Had almost given up hope. Just a small word of caution for the British reader - I naively hadn't realised Americans don't necessarily use the same names for flowers as we Brits. Wasn't too much of an issue as it's obvious from the photographs what they are talking about if you know your flowers, but because of this I'm not sure it would be much good for a flower novice.

A beautiful book and full of generous tips. A MUST for anyone thinking of starting a cut flower farm but also a good read for someone who just loves growing flowers. The photos tell a story and are great.

I bought this as a gift for friends as it covered both their interests in their beautiful garden

I have read and re-read Erin's beautiful book and open it again and again for tips on flower conditioning, choice of annuals to plant, distance between plants, ideas about flower arrangements etc... I cannot thank her enough for being so generous with her knowledge, she doesn't keep back, she shares good and bad, the instructions are clear, in short a jewel of a book! can't wait for her second book to come out!!

Brilliant book. No complaints. Informative with great tips