Garden Organic has unveiled its new ‘Cut Flower Garden’, which demonstrates how to ‘grow your own’ while limiting your carbon footprint.

Presently, 85 percent of UK cut flowers are imported, the charity points out, with Kenya importing some 17,000 tonnes of flowers to the UK in 2004.

These were flown more than 4,000 miles and represent 33,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, meaning that the transit of each individual flower generates vastly more than its own weight in CO2, according to Garden Organic.

“The new Cut Flower Garden at Garden Organic Yalding shows how a beautiful bouquet needn’t cost the earth,” says Clare Lanes, Gardens Manager at Garden Organic. “Visitors can see how to grow their own flowers without chemical pesticides whilst saving on air miles too. We hope our garden will provide the inspiration for people to change the way they view their cut flowers and help reduce their environmental impact.”

The new garden has been designed to provide a steady supply of fresh flowers throughout the year and features flowers such as Cosmos, Dahlias, Verbenas, Cleome, Sweet peas, Alliums and Anemones.

Garden Organic Yalding will be selling some of their organic bouquets throughout the summer along with seedlings and plants

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