Creating a beautiful and secluded spot within your garden for you to cultivate a collection of your favourite blooms, cutting gardens are a charming way to add a personal touch to your gardenscape.
Our masterly landscaping team traditionally use sturdy sleepers to create timeless and long-lasting cutting gardens. Most commonly constructed from reclaimed and natural materials, cutting gardens are divine growing spaces that can be harmoniously settled into your existing landscape.
From statement blooms such as dahlias and roses to the more dainty delights of sweet peas and cosmos, the beauty of cutting gardens are that they can be crafted to reflect your style. Flourishing your very own bespoke planting recipe and containing your most beloved varieties, let’s uncover the main ways that a cutting garden could enhance both your landscape and your lifestyle.
Environmental rewards
The flowers found in our local supermarkets are most often imported from countries all around the world and are commonly plucked from energy-intense polytunnels. Therefore the act of growing your own blooms at home is much more environmentally conscious and is a wonderful way to encourage a more sustainable lifestyle.
Supports pollinators and garden wildlife
A vital source of food and sanctuary for a wealth of garden wildlife, establishing a cutting garden into your landscape is a fabulous way to support your local environment. Attracting bees, butterflies and other valuable insects into the garden, cutting gardens are wonderful for boosting pollination and for expanding the ecosystem found within your garden.
Awaken your interiors
Diffusing sweet scents and glorious floral textures throughout your home, cut flowers are a simple yet beautiful way to enhance your interiors. Enabling you to snip fresh cut blooms throughout every season, cutting gardens guarantee to reward you with a bountiful harvest that can also be designed to correspond effortlessly with the interior of your home.
Mental and physical health benefits
Encouraging you to venture out into the garden, a cutting garden is a wonderful feature that you can tend to throughout the year. With gardening found to significantly reduce symptoms of anxiety and stress, tending to your garden is a fantastic way to support your general well-being.
Helping to improve your strength and flexibility, gardening is also an effective form of exercise and is therefore a wonderful way to improve your physical wellbeing too!
From constructing to planting and maintaining your growing space, find out how our team could establish and nurture your cutting garden.