YEARS of growing a large range of flowers, grasses and shrubs at her flower farm in Oxfordshire, with observation of their habits and needs, has given the flower farmer and florist Rachel Siegfried a keen sense of the value of shrubs and perennials in flower arrangements—particularly late in the year when flowers for cutting are few and far between.
In , she makes a strong case for woody plants and perennials forming a ‘permanent backbone’ to a cutting garden. If grown for cutting, trees and shrubs can be planted closer together than they would be normally.
