How Our Flower Cutting Garden Got Started

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How Our Flower Cutting Garden Got Started

After we restored the walled garden I then moved on to another area in the property where there was a large asbestos building. It was awful, a really big negative building that was falling down and the first thing that you see when you arrived at Broadspear. I hated the idea of the chemicals wafting around, so I got it removed and then left the ground to settle before we starting digging into it. What was underneath was the most horrible wet sticky clay that nothing would grow in. We found the cheapest solution, smelly mushroom compost - and yes it’s very smelly, especially when you get 20 tonnes of it! We laid it on top and starting turning the soil, adding and turning and adding. This was all at the start of lockdown (April 2020), so a physical project was great. After about two weeks the smell disappeared and we could really see the soil beginning to improve. We divided the large area into two separate cutting gardens – a rose garden and a cutting flower garden. Then each garden was divided into 4 separate parts with turf laid in between so that we could walk through and weed easily. We next added our seeds, bulbs, plants and roses - over 60 different varieties and honestly I can't believe it when I walk past them now. The beautiful flower beds (4) are full of buzzing bees, and butterflies - and the smell is out of this world. No more international flowers in our home (from holland I mean), less plastic again and no miles, and more nectar for the bees!

Read here the types of flowers that I planted.