Florist & Flower Grower
We are enjoying our third rosehip harvest on top of the Greensand Ridge in Kent. While all around us at Loddington Farm, apples are being brought in by the bulk-bin load, We are busy cutting rosehips by hand, to sell from the shed. We first spotted the ornamental rosehips when visiting our favourite Belgian garden […]
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While Bek has been growing sunflowers here at Blooming Green her talented and passionate sister Catharine has been growing sunflowers with children in a refugee Camp in Greece. It’s the last Friday of the summer holidays and we are thinking of children here getting ready to go back to school and children who Cats is
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When we first offered or, more accurately, were asked for pick-your-own flowers we were happy to oblige. A lovely group had come up from Somerset for a wedding nearby and it was a lady among this group who gave us the idea. As we found out afterwards, her name was Therese Lang, and as it
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Beata Andrews, former head gardener for Sarah Raven at Perch Hill now runs Botanika, her own, unique floristry business where she uses flowers from her allotment and garden to make her arrangements more than a little bit special… What’s behind the boom in British cut flowers? Everyone thinks it’s a nice lifestyle to be growing
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As you’ve probably noticed, we’re very excited about having Charles Dowding come and talk at our flower plot. But, not only that, we are thrilled to have Nicci Gurr providing lunch on the day… We have known Nicci for as long as we have been running Blooming Green and have worked with her on various
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If I were to instigate a thriving cut-flower garden at my home, Doddington Place Gardens, near Sittingbourne, I would look to Parham House, West Sussex (www.parhamhouse.co.uk) for inspiration – although I very much doubt I would need the prodigious quantities of flowers that Parham grows. An astonishing 20-25 buckets of cut flowers from the garden
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