Florist & Flower Grower
Pumpkins & gourds in time for Halloween — plus last PYO Flowers session of the season This Friday, midday till 4pm To celebrate our last PYO Afternoon for 2017 we are planning a special Autumn event full of fun activities including mini pumpkin decorating, gourd ‘boules’ and guess the weight of the giant squash. There will also […]
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Much as we love our flower plot, we always like to get out and about, speak to other flower growers and get inspiration from other interesting businesses. So, at the latter end of the wedding season, Bek and I have managed to clear a few days in the diary and do just that. Last week
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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
Beata Andrews of Botanika: Perch Hill and beyond Read More »