Queen of cut flowers Sarah Raven shares with Julia Wheeler everything you could possibly wish to know about planning, growing and arranging your own cutting garden, as explored in vivid detail in her new book A Year of Cut Flowers, which reveals the secrets she has evolved over decades at Perch Hill to keep an exciting variety of cut flower production nearly constant, from the start of the growing year to the end.

Broadcaster and author Sarah Raven has a popular gardening podcast Grow, Cook, Eat, Arrange and runs a mail order plant nursery and online store sarahraven.com.

Festival special: this book is not available in bookshops until mid-March

• £40 one ticket plus one book: A Year of Cut Flowers (RRP £30)

• £56 two tickets plus one book: A Year of Cut Flowers (RRP £30)