This demo has now taken place but the recording of the session is available to buy as a download until 27th May 2025. Simply place your order as if you were booking a place on the workshop and, as soon as we are able, we will send you the recording.
You love the idea of cutting flowers from your garden but are worried that if you do they’ll flop and won’t last in the vase. To have success with flowers from your garden first you need to know how to cut and condition them successfully.
Join flower farmer and florist Georgie Newbery for this online demo during which she’ll give you all her top tips for cutting and conditioning cut flowers and foliage successfully.
How can you tell when a rose is at the perfect point for cutting? How long will it last in the vase? Why do you sear cut flowers and foliage and how? What’s the best time of day to cut flowers, and how long should you leave them before you use them in floristry?
These questions and many many more will be addressed by Georgie in this demo, useful for people planning to cut flowers for a particular event, people who love to cut flowers from their gardens but want to make more of them, people who have a garden full of potential cut flower material but who aren’t sure where to start.
If you are interested in this workshop, you might also like to look at our Grand Flower Arrangements Trio of Demos.
Suitable for:
All flower growers and floral design enthusiasts.
Why do a workshop or demo with Common Farm Flowers?
Georgie Newbery has been building her small business growing flowers for sale and creating floristry with material she’s grown on the farm since 2010. She is a Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Floristry Judge, RHS dahlia trials committee member, and Garden Media Guild New Talent Award Judge.
Georgie does not see other flower farmers and florists as competition, but rather as potential colleagues and collaborators. Georgie knows that it is in her interest to teach her students everything she knows. And she spends a great deal of time talking to other flower farmers and small business owners and learning as much as she can around the subject of running small businesses and farming gardens and small acreage.
There are no secrets held back from you at a Common Farm Flowers workshop.
Information about all our online workshops and demos:
You are welcome to join our workshops and demos whether you grow for pleasure or profit, and wherever you are in the world.
All our online workshops and demos take place via Zoom at 5.00pm (UK time.)
Workshops last approximately two hours and demos are around one hour.
Online workshop numbers are generally restricted to a maximum of 20 students.
We will be in touch a few days before the workshop with your joining instructions. This email will come from nicola@commonfarmflowers.com. If you’ve not heard from Nicola 48 hours before the session takes place please email nicola@commonfarmflowers.com but do please first check your junk / spam items and make sure you are checking the inbox of the email address you used to book your place.
We record all our sessions, which means you don’t miss out if, for example, you get interrupted or lose internet connection during the course of the session.
All our online workshops and demos work well if you can’t attend live. Simply book your place as if you were coming along and we will send you the recordings as soon as possible after the session has taken place.
We will send recordings (and notes for workshops) within 7 days of the session taking place, but usually much sooner than this.
Please familiarise yourself with our terms and conditions in case you need to cancel your workshop or demo place.
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