The Beginner’s Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Nourish, and Create Bliss Year-Round

A friendly guide to the simple and mindful practice of growing and enjoying cut flowers in every month of the year.

Flowers have the power to heal, connect, and bring joy, often when we need it most. And more importantly, the best flowers are those grown with your own two hands. The Beginner’s Cut Flower Garden is the perfect book for gardeners who are dipping a toe into growing cut flowers for the first time. Gardener and therapeutic horticulturalist Elizabeth Brown offers thoughtful, step-by-step, seasonally inspired narratives, information on the flowers to grow, and more, including:

• Focusing on your vision, color palette, and floral style
• Developing a cohesive garden plan, and installing garden beds
• Exploring floral design and creating arrangements with freshly cut flowers
• Inspiring floral art activities and natural dye projects​, and more ...

With the poetry of a classic horticultural guide and the accessibility of a contemporary garden club, Brown brings a collaborative, welcoming spirit to the process of growing flowers: we’re all beginners here.

You, too, can grow flowers to enrich and bring brightness and balance to everyone’s daily life!

Elizabeth Brown is a certified therapeutic horticulturist and Maine Master Gardener Volunteer. After growing and gifting hundreds of blooms to essential workers in her community during the pandemic, Elizabeth created Foxglove Farmhouse, a quarter-acre cut flower garden in her backyard. This garden’s mix of annual and perennial blooms are cultivated without chemicals and pesticides, providing sustainable local flowers to florists and markets. Elizabeth regularly gives workshops on cut flower garden design, floral arrangements, and seed sowing and created the Foxglove Garden Club, a year-long virtual subscription-based garden education program for beginner gardeners. Brown also works as the Resident Gardener of Cliff House Maine. In 2023, she released a curated 100% organic cut flower seed line, highlighted in the Boston Globe and Down East Magazine’s seasonal gift guide. Her position as a Resident Gardener was also a featured story in the Slow Flower Society Journal. IG: @foxglovefarmhouse