There is no greater joy than walking into a colourful garden and picking a bunch of flowers to arrange in a vase. In Garden to Vase we share how to grow, harvest and arrange garden flowers, from the process of creating a cutting garden, tips on gardening through the seasons and conditioning stems, to our favourite seasonal flowers for arranging and how to create effortlessly beautiful arrangements in vases of different shapes and sizes. Written and filmed across a year in our Hampshire cutting garden, in this course you’ll discover a rich and holistic way of working with flowers and the deeply joyful connection of growing your own produce.

This course is suitable for anyone interested in growing and arranging garden flowers - whether you are a home gardener and arranger, starting a cutting garden or a designer interested in working with garden-grown materials

£245

“I love the structure of the whole class, the seasons following each other, garden notes and flower details all shared in a friendly, easy to follow way”

WINTER TO SPRING

—  New Beginnings  —
As the ground thaws the first first fragile
blooms emerge in the garden

—  A Guide to Vases  —
Ally shares her favourite vases,
from buds to bowls, informal jars and tall vessels

—  Narcissi, Bleached Grasses  —
The garden recreated in miniature,
a small, textural bowl

—  Fritillaria, Flowering Currant, Blossom  —
A pale green and peach arrangement
with delicate branches

—  Cherry, Hellebore, Butcher’s Broom —
On the cusp of spring,
pearly metallics and speckles

SUMMER TO AUTUMN

— Riot of Colour  —
Fruits, flowers and swishing grasses make
for a garden full of texture and colour

—  The Essential Toolkit  —
Jess talks through her garden tools and Ally
shares what’s in her toolkit for arranging flowers

—  Dahlia, Phlox, Marigold  —
A concoction of spiky dahlias and fiery gestural
stems in a modern glass vase

—  Rose, Zinnia, Echinacea —
A lavish, tumbling centrepiece
in a footed ceramic bowl

—  Intricate Perennials, Fluffy Grasses  —
Gleaming golden vases create a textural
tablescape of ruffles, spires and spangles

SPRING TO SUMMER

—  Gaining Momentum  —
As soon as the earth warms the garden explodes
into life with new varieties flowering weekly

—  A Guide to Cutting & Conditioning  —
Jess shares advice on cutting and
conditioning garden flowers

—  Beauty Bush, Corncockle, Aquilegia  —
A tall and sculptural ceramic vase of
pale pink corncockle and lime foliage

— Sweetpea, Rose, Peony  —
A trio of elegant, vine-y table vases
with blowsy roses and delicate gestural stems

—  Clematis, Iris, Nigella —
A frothy arrangement of cool-toned early
summer flowers in a contemporary vase

AUTUMN TO WINTER

—  Winding Down  —
The growing season is nearing its end and
the garden slowly fizzles out in a painterly finale

—  Creating a Cutting Garden  —
Jess describes the process of how we created
our cut flower garden and shares her top tips

—  Nicotiana, Salvia, Panicum —
A dramatic but simple design of layered
stems and grasses in a tall, ribbed vase

—  Nandina, Rose and Hips, Dahlia —
An explosion of rosehips and flowers
with bronze leaves in a wide bowl

—  Elder, Chrysanthemum, Grass —
Autumnal hues and feathery texture in
a gleaming metal container

GARDEN NOTEBOOK

—  February, March, Early April  —
The new year’s jobs start with
pruning, mulching and sowing seeds

—  Late April, May, June  —
As spring turns to summer the weeding,
deadheading and planting out begins

—  July, August, Early September  —
Regular applications of organic feed and
an eye on irrigation through the hotter months

—  Late September, October, November  —
A busy time of tidying, sowing seeds
and planting bulbs before the winter

CUTTING LISTS

—  Winter to Spring  —
The first tentative snowdrops and blossom
emerge, followed by flowering bulbs

—  Spring to Summer  —
As the tulips fade the hardy annuals start
to bloom, then the first flush of roses

—  Summer to Autumn —
A time for jewel colours, gleaming fruits and
texture, velvety dahlias and metallic grasses

—  Autumn to Winter  —
The garden’s swansong - chrysanthemum,
rosehips and golden leaves

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