The Cutting Garden provides a continuous supply of flowers and foliage from March to November, grown without pesticides or chemicals. The flowers we grow are selected for their colour, scent and character and many are rare varieties which you are unlikely to find in any high street florist.

Through the seasons you will be able to enjoy the best of the English country garden inside your home. A typical year in the cutting garden may include tulips in early spring; followed by foxgloves, peonies and sweet williams; with beautiful scented English roses, sweet peas and hollyhocks in summer and a flourish of vibrant dahlias to finish the growing season.

I have spent the last 15 years growing flowers, initially in the guise of a garden designer. As I became increasingly aware of environmental issues my interest moved to productive gardening. This culminated in growing vegetables alongside flowers in a two-acre walled kitchen garden. Here I learnt to appreciate the freshness and seasonality of growing your own. Gradually the flowers took over and after 6 years of being paid to indulge my obsession an opportunity arose to grow cut flowers for a living. An organic market garden was looking for new tenants and so roses were planted alongside rhubarb, sweet peas next to runner beans and dahlias rotated with tomatoes in the polytunnel. As demand has grown so has the range and volume of flowers and foliage, ensuring all the ingredients for bouquets throughout the seasons. Rachel Siegfried - grower

 

 

Oxfordshire grown cut flowers