This is my Mylor Bridge plot…these beds were a little over a metre wide…wish I had slimmed them just a fraction. Certainly newly seeded beds shouldn’t be left to totally dry out so a tap or water butt is super handy to have at hand. I generally let my flowers just get on with it after they have become established and would only water them in very prolonged periods of hot and dry weather…prolonged dry spells are rare down here in Costa Del Cornwall but when I had flower patches in East Anglia it was more of an issue. Preferably you will want a water source close to your flower patch. If you have rabbits in the garden you will need to fence them out…I use chicken wire….well…actually I use rabbit wire….£40 I think it was for fifty metres. Many of flowers will grow tall and the willowy creatures can easily be toppled in a storm If you haven’t got a sheltered position perhaps think about some willow fencing…or picket fencing or some windbreak fabric. Not protection from the hooded claw, wolves or Mrs Gunter’s ferret but protection from the wind.
Cut flower garden layout Patch#
Positioning your patch in a shady corner just ain’t gonna cut the mustard.
Cut flower garden layout full#
I would estimate anything less than six or seven hours of full sun is a minimum. Most annuals are sun worshippers and will skulk and sulk in the shade…don’t put them through it.
The majority of the flowers you will be growing will be annuals. In the cutting garden sunshine is our friend. Uniform beds…I like em too….just not as much. Nonetheless planning is a worthwhile experience and is swimmingly good fun to boot. I have never once created a cutting garden that followed my plan exactly. Other than keeping it simple there are a few straight forward rules…or guidelines you can choose to follow which will make your life much easier…but do expect some things to change when you start digging and planting…it just happens…it’s ok.
The Higgledy family since then have kept that as a mantra…well….with the exception of Margot Slipknot-Higgledy the famous Elizabethan escapologist who insisted on having an underwater cutting garden…with no exits…and infested with box jellyfish… Mixed beds…I love em. I think I am right it saying it was my great ancestor Iohannes Fluke-Higgledy who was the head of flower production at the monastery on Lindisfarne in the 13th Century…who wrote that he thought ‘simplicity was the greatest luxury’. The Higgledy clan have been designing and creating cut flower gardens since prehistory and certainly at least one of us was a time traveller from the future…so it is hard to yet ascertain just how long we’ve been at it.
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