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New Cut Flower Edition now on sale! September 2025.

We are delighted to announce a brand new edition of our best selling Cut Flower book, Edition 5, is now on sale. Fully revised and expanded with new flowers added it also contains for the first time UK grown availability. This means that if either you or a client wish to source flowers from either a flower farm or artisan grower in the UK, you can check what flowers are available and when.

From our website you can buy our new Cut Flower book Ed 5, Cut Foliage Ed 2, (2021) and Houseplants (2019) If you are new to, or already in the floristry industry then you'll find that our books are a must. Our Cut Flower book is often referred to as the 'flower bible' and is recommended by floristry tutors across the UK and further afield.

All books have been written by myself, Su Whale, a florist and freelance writer with over 30 years experience in the floristry industry. You can buy a single book, a set of two or the complete trilogy from our website, and in doing so save a bit of money and have the books signed by me as well. Follow me on Facebook or Instagram at sunflower-suw.

Every book is carefully packaged and dispatched by ourselves. Books can be bought from our website via our secure payment World Pay site, or we are happy to take credit/debit cards over the phone (we are fully PCI DSS compliant)

Colleges and flower schools who buy our books include Kay's Flower School, Dublin, The Academy of Floristry, East Durham, Moreton Morrell & Writtle Colleges and other floristry colleges across the UK. Overseas we ship to The Boerma Instituut in Alsmeer, Solomon Bloemen Flower School, Hong Kong, and City College San Francisco. We also supply Waterstones, WH Smiths and Foyles via Gardners Books wholesalers.

Any queries, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Looking forward to hearing from you!
Su & Brett Whale

Single copy of Cut Flower £19.99
10 copies or more £18.99 each
20 copies or more £17.99 each

Single copies of Cut Foliage or Houseplants £17.99
10 copies or more £16.99 each
20 copies or more £15.99 each

Buy all three for £52.00 (plus p&p)

We can mix and match! Email with your preference and we will sort them for you.



Carriage is free on orders of 10 books or more within the U.K.