Notes from the Flower Farm

Autumn in the Cutting Garden - Jobs List

Autumn in the Cutting Garden - Jobs List

It’s such a wonderful time in the garden as the weather cools and we (hopefully) start to get some rain. But it’s also incredibly busy and the myriad of jobs...

Autumn in the Cutting Garden - Jobs List

It’s such a wonderful time in the garden as the weather cools and we (hopefully) start to get some rain. But it’s also incredibly busy and the myriad of jobs...

Our Icons

Our Icons

In our book, Secrets from the Flower Farm, and on our seed packets we include icons to indicate key information and features about a particular plant. You can find the...

Our Icons

In our book, Secrets from the Flower Farm, and on our seed packets we include icons to indicate key information and features about a particular plant. You can find the...

Discover Heirloom Chrysanthemums

Discover Heirloom Chrysanthemums

Most of us are familiar with the sturdy, softball-sized, ‘disbud mums’ and sprays of daisy-shaped chrysanthemum flowers (mums). Commercial growers produce many hundreds of thousands of stems year-round in greenhouses in...

Discover Heirloom Chrysanthemums

Most of us are familiar with the sturdy, softball-sized, ‘disbud mums’ and sprays of daisy-shaped chrysanthemum flowers (mums). Commercial growers produce many hundreds of thousands of stems year-round in greenhouses in...

Winter on the Flower Farm

Winter on the Flower Farm

  Winter on the Flower Farm is a special time. We're busy digging and dividing dahlias, pruning roses and laying compost around the perennial shrubs. Our days are full but there's...

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Winter on the Flower Farm

  Winter on the Flower Farm is a special time. We're busy digging and dividing dahlias, pruning roses and laying compost around the perennial shrubs. Our days are full but there's...

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Growing From Seed

Growing From Seed

If producing amazing cut flowers is your goal, growing from seed is essential. Many of the plants available at garden centres are bedding varieties with stems too short for the...

Growing From Seed

If producing amazing cut flowers is your goal, growing from seed is essential. Many of the plants available at garden centres are bedding varieties with stems too short for the...

How to Grow Italian Ranunculus

How to Grow Italian Ranunculus

Italian Ranunculus have longer, stronger stems than normal garden Ranunculus and larger flowers, as wide as a teacup, in the most incredible colours: salmon, violet, ‘pastello’ (a mix of pastels), chocolate...

How to Grow Italian Ranunculus

Italian Ranunculus have longer, stronger stems than normal garden Ranunculus and larger flowers, as wide as a teacup, in the most incredible colours: salmon, violet, ‘pastello’ (a mix of pastels), chocolate...