Bring your calendar to this online workshop and let flower farmer Georgie Newbery share with you the dates you need to put in your diary for a successful season growing flowers year on year.
Georgie puts all her growing dates firmly in the diary, and so long as she sticks to them, she will always have flowers. Without the diary she'd never get crops in the ground on time and would find herself always running late.
Anybody who’s been on one of her flower growing workshops will tell you that the diary is almost her most important tool. Bring your year planner and let Georgie help you fill it in: from a shrub watering schedule, to when to split your dahlias and then when to plant them out, from when to order bulbs, to when to have them delivered, to when to prep beds so that any plants ready to go in the ground can be planted, Georgie has the schedule minutely organised – don’t worry, you will still have time to go to the pub! And you will have a fabulous season full of flowers too.
If you are considering doing this workshop, you might be interested in our The Cut Flower Patch Workshop Bundle, which combines this workshop with our Design A Cut Flower Patch workshop (and is aimed at anyone, whether growing flowers for profit or pleasure.)
Here's what some recent students had to say about this workshop:
"This workshop is worth participating in. It is highly informative, distilled knowledge of years was presented well structured and highly focused but still highly entertaining with a lot of useful practical information on that specific topic. Georgie also manages to engage all the participants & pays tribute to all the demands and individual gardening situations, from small gardener to business, by answering them willingly and unpretentiously at the end of the seminar. Being a teacher myself I am well impressed - congrats on such a workshop."
"This was such a helpful workshop. Focusing on the entire year with an experienced and talented flower grower helped me think much more creatively about my own flower growing year. The calendar Georgie shared was a game changer for me - I've already ordered one! Even more important was Georgie's generous sharing of her experience, her complete answers to all of our questions, and her incredible 'can do' spirit. The whole experience was an inspiration to me. I am very grateful."
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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