Just Grow the Flowers: Autumn / Winter

A step-by-step guide to starting your own cut flower patch this autumn, even if you only have ten minutes here and there.

Written by a grower with a full-time job, a family and an ordinary garden, not a flower farm. I've been growing from seed for seven years, and what I couldn't find was someone growing on a normal garden scale, so that's what this guide is.

Sow everything at once in a mad rush and you end up with a greenhouse you can't move in and seedlings you can't keep up with. This guide takes a different approach: one flower at a time, roughly a week apart, spread out from September through to February.

Worried you've left it too late? You haven't. Wherever you are in the season there's something to sow, and the guide tells you exactly what comes next. Wild carrot, larkspur and orlaya go in during October, and scabious and malope wait until February.

Inside you'll find:

Fourteen cool flowers (hardy annuals and a few biennials) chosen to give you flowers from spring right through summer, with a full sowing schedule so you always know what to sow next

A complete kit list, so you know exactly what to buy and what you can skip

Real guidance on hardening off, planting out, and cutting for the vase, written for beginners

A cheat sheet at the back with sowing dates and heights for every flower

Zone notes for the US and Canada, so the dates work for your garden too (UK dates are tested in my Suffolk garden)

Written for anyone starting their first cutting patch: busy parents, full-time workers, and complete beginners who want real flowers without the overwhelm.

Want the whole year? The Spring / Summer guide is out now, covering seventeen flowers sown from February to April. Get both guides in The Whole Year Bundle for £15.99 and save £4, or get Spring / Summer on its own.