Plan Your Flower Growing Year: A Calendar Workshop with Georgie Newbery of Common Farm Flowers
Bring your year planner to this online workshop and let flower farmer Georgie Newbery walk you through the dates that will guarantee you a season full of flowers, year on year.
The single most important tool in Georgie's flower farming practice is her diary. Without it, crops don't get in the ground on time, bulbs don't arrive when the beds are ready, and the season begins to slip before it's started. In this workshop she shares that diary with you, the precise schedule she follows to ensure she always has flowers, from the first shrubs of the year to the last dahlias of autumn.
From sowing dates and bulb orders to dahlia splitting, bed preparation, and watering schedules, every stage of the growing year has its moment, and this workshop helps you map that onto your own garden or farm. Georgie answers every question, adapts to every situation, and sends you away with a plan you can actually stick to.
What you'll learn:
- The key dates every flower grower needs in their diary for a productive season
- The successional seed sowing schedule
- When to order and take delivery of bulbs, and how to make sure beds are ready in time
- When to split dahlias and when to plant them out
- Planning for bare root ordering and planting - roses, shrubs and woodies
- How to plan a shrub watering schedule that keeps your woody plants establishing well
- How to plan bed preparation so that plants are never waiting to go in the ground
- How to build a complete, realistic growing, marketing and harvesting calendar that works for your space, whether garden or farm
Practical, generous, and immediately useful: this workshop gives you the framework to stop feeling behind and start growing with confidence.
Reviews:
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 and 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."
Suitable for:
All gardening enthusiasts and flower growers, whatever their level of experience: from first-time sowers to established growers who want a more organised and productive year.
Format:
- This workshop will last around two hours.
- There will be plenty of time for questions.
- Includes access to a recording of the workshop, so you can watch again in your own time or catch up later if you can’t attend live.
- We will also send you some brief workshop notes after the session has taken place.
Suitable for:
All gardening enthusiasts and students no matter what level of expertise.
Bundles and other workshops:
If you are interested in this workshop you might also like some of other workshops and discounted bundles, including:
The Cut Flower Patch Workshop Bundle (includes The Design A Cut Flower Patch Workshop and The Flower Farmer's Year Workshop)
The Flower Farmer’s Workshop Bundle (includes The Introduction To Flower Farming Workshop and The Pricing Cut Flowers Workshop)
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