T he Daily Telegraph has featured Rachel Siegfried’s The Cut Flower Sourcebook — Clare Coulson’s profile takes the unusual route of asking not what to grow but why she grows the plants she does.
Coulson’s piece sits with Rachel at Green & Gorgeous, her flower farm in Oxfordshire, and follows her case for choosing perennials and woody plants over the more usual annuals: longer-lived, less hungry, and built to deliver cutting material right through the year.
That seasonality is the spine of Rachel’s argument. Her book, The Cut Flower Sourcebook, sets out 128 plants she has trialled at Green & Gorgeous — peonies and dahlias alongside daisies, climbers, grasses and fruit blossom — and pairs each with notes on growing and on the way the stem, twist or branch actually wants to be cut.
It’s this sense of seasonality that is at the heart of Siegfried’s book, which is an intensely practical guide to what and how to grow to provide cutting material year round.
— Clare Coulson, The Daily Telegraph
Read Clare Coulson’s feature in The Daily Telegraph for the full piece. Our thanks to Clare Coulson and to the editors there.
