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The Flower GardenIf you are lucky enough to have a garden or allotment you can make money from it. You can start at any time of year. Autumn is brilliant for sowing Perennials and HardyAnnuals then in late winter and early spring sow Hardy Annuals again. Sow Half HardyAnnuals when the soil is warm in mid-late spring then sow Biennials in Summer. In just a few weeks you'll have trays of young plants or lots of beautiful flowers to sell. 

Grow & SellPlants

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Grow & Sell Cut Flowers

Bunch & SellCut Flowers

It's worth learning how toarrange your flowers. Sellthem at the garden gate oryour local shop. Posies injam jars make lovely gifts asdo beautifully arrangedbouquets for special events.

Scented garden flowers arein high demand. In just 12-14 weeks you could havebuckets of flowers ready forsale. Sell direct to the publicat markets or wholesale toyour local florist.

Growing plants from seed isreally easy. It doesn't costmuch to get started and youcan specialise in particulartypes such as perennials oralpines. Sell them at yourlocal farmers market.

Grow & SellHerbs

Grow your own Confetti

Grow & DryFlowers

Herbs are quick to grow and in demand by home cooksand restaurants too. Somepeople love to enjoy livingplants on their windowsillwhilst others prefer freshlycut bunches to cook with.

Extend the season by usingcertain annual flowerswhich keep their shape andcolour when dried. Theymake lovely everlastingarrangements and addtexture to floral wreaths.

Flowers such as Larkspurand Cornflowers dry reallywell and keep their colourstoo. Their petals are the bestfor wedding confetti. Sellonline in bulk or in bundlesof ready to use packets.

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Grow Trailing Annuals

Become aSpecialist

Grow Foliageand Fillers

Annuals that trail are greatfor window boxes, hayracksand hanging baskets. Growplenty and offer pots andbaskets ready filled for sale.High Street businesses lovea container filling service.

Specialise if you know a lotabout a certain plant group.You could grow Dahlias andmuliply them to divide andsell the tubers. Grow massesof Sweet Peas so you cancollect the seeds for sale.

Use your boundaries andhedges within your gardento produce lots of foliagefor cutting. Some bouquetscontain up to 50% foliage.Florists love it as it helps tohighlight beautiful flowers.

Make Wreathsfor Decor

Teach Floristry

Become aWedding Florist

Christmas wreaths are verypopular and some peoplelove to have a wreath madeof fresh or dried flowersand foliage on their doorsall year round. Make themand sell at Fairs & Markets.

Offer Floral Workshops toindividuals or small groups.Teach them to make posies,bouquets or bunches. TeachHen Parties to make TableDecorations, Flower Crownsand Buttonholes.

Fresh scented flowers are indemand for weddings. Growyour own to select the exactcolours & blooms you want.Offer Bouquets, Posies andButtonholes or sell bucketsof flowers for DIY weddings

Grow Flowers to Paint

Teach WreathMaking

Grow Flowersto Press

Floral art is extremelypopular as many peoplelove to bring the outside in.Draw and paint the flowersyou grow. Sell original artwork or a series of prints ofyour favourite designs.

Wreath making workshopsare very popular just beforeChistmas. You can alsoteach people how to makeseasonal wreaths for insideor outside their home fromfresh and dried flowers.

Select the most perfectflowers from your cuttingpatch to press and dry.Make greetings cards,unique framed art work orphotograph them and sellprints over and over again.

Get Creative in the Garden

Get Creative in the Garden

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Keep Chickens for Fresh Eggs

Keep Beesfor Honey

HomegrownProduce

Many Chickens lay an egg aday so you could sell whatyou don't need to locals andbakers. There's demand forcoloured eggs which arevery instagrammable sochoose your breed carefully!

If you grow fruit and vegthen you could sell thesurplus at market. Growunusual or heritage plants.Make special chutney orjam to add value to your rawingredients for best prices.

Host GardenParties

Grow & SellWillow

Hire Out Your Space

Willow is fast growing andcomes in many varieties,each with a different stemcolour. Weave baskets ormake & sell plant supports.Sell hardwood cuttings sopeople can grow their own.

A large beautiful garden ismeant to be shared! Hire itout for one off events likeweddings, anniversariesand special photo shoots.Organise the event yourselfor offer to do the catering.

If you have a large gardenyou could hire out plots tokeen growers who don'thave the land they'd love.You could offer severalsmaller plots or let thespace to one keen grower.

GardeningWorkshop

FlowerPhotography

PhotographyWorkshop

Teach individuals or smallgroups how to photographflowers, plants and gardens.Offer phone photographyand Macro Lens. Change thesubject each month/seasonfor repeat bookings.

Many people want to learnhow to care for plants butcan't spare the time to take a long course. Show themhow to sow and grow, trainprune and compost in a fullor half day session.

Grow gorgeous flowers andtake photos of them to sell.Crop in tightly with a macrolens for abstact pictures andset up styled shoots too. Sellvia photo libraries or offeroriginals and prints for sale.

Bee keeping is popular nowand there are groups to helpyou get going. Honey beesforage for pollen and nectarthen bring it back to theirhives to create Honeycomb.Bottle it and sell it to Delis.

What Now?

Break it Down

I hope you've found some ideas to sparkyour creativity here. There are loads ofother things you can do right now in yourgarden or allotment to start generatingsome money. My best advice is to whittle things down to just one or two that appeal to you andmake you feel that you want to tryimmediately... then make a quick plan.

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To start, make a simple one page planwith your goal at the top and a series ofsteps stating how you'll do it.Keep it straightforward so it feelsachievable and just take one little stepevery day towards your main goal.You'll be surprised how quickly you makeprogress, particularly if you are growingflowers. Seeds often take just a few days togerminate and can be flowering in as littleas 12 weeks.

If you do need flower seeds then have alook in the shop at Country Garden UKwhere you'll find seeds for cut flowersand wildlife gardens.

Happy Growing!

love Gillian x