Our flower farm

From May to October, we offer bouquets and buckets for collection or local delivery. We also provide flowers and foliage wholesale to florists.

The variety of flowers we have depends on the time of the year. The season starts in May with tulips and ranunculus. Dahlias, zinnias and a whole host of other summer flowers then follow right through until the end of October.

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Why buy flowers from us?

We grow a wide variety of beautiful flowers and foliage working with the seasons and our climate so what we offer continually changes.
Working in harmony with nature is very important to us, so we grow as sustainably as we can. Our beds are no dig and our compost is peat free. We use cover crops and green manure, and, wherever possible, natural fertiliser like seaweed and alfalfa meal.
This is compared to the flowers you find in supermarkets, and from some online suppliers, that are mostly imported. These have one of the largest carbon footprints per £1 spent of any product, and a negative impact on the environment as a result.
While imported flowers fill the winter gap when British flowers may be unavailable, you can support local growers and buy British when they’re back in season.
All our flowers and foliage are locally-grown. Directly harvesting them from our one acre field ensures you get the very best and freshest blooms in your hands within hours of picking.
While we are still building up our farm, we do occasionally have to buy in flowers and foliage and always try to buy British.
Every sale means a lot to us. As a small, but proud, local business, we only exist because of the support of our fabulous customers.
While we can’t compete with the supermarkets that import flowers as loss leaders, or the wholesalers operating on a massive scale overseas, we do aim to be competitive and offer real value.

About us

Hi there, we’re Katie and Roger.

The lockdown led us - and 6,999,999 other people - to get back into gardening. We built two raised beds in the back garden and sowed some vegetable seeds. Having commuted to an office job for decades, catching the train at 6am and rarely getting home before 7pm at best, it had been a long time since my hands were in the dirt. And I found it really therapeutic.

A long time love of flowers

I have always loved flowers. With all the horror that happens in the world, I find it reassuring that flowers just carry on doing their thing. I am continually amazed that a tiny seed I sow can turn into the most amazingly beautiful bloom. And I defy anyone not to feel a shot of happiness when presented with a bunch of flowers.

We started with two raised beds. Two then became four, and then twelve.

The death of a very good friend

Then one of my best friends was diagnosed with a brain tumour and, tragically, died just six months later. It was a shocking reminder that you never know what’s around the corner. I could carry on building my pension, waiting until I felt comfortable enough to retire. But I’d be older then, less fit, and maybe not able to do whatever I wanted. And I wanted to start a flower farm.

So, in 2023, I roped my husband, Roger, into my plans. We extended again, building another seven 12 metre long beds, and had a trial year.

Alongside our full time jobs, we tested whether we could grow consistently high quality flowers and foliage in a sustainable way for a full season. We refined our growing plans and methods, tested different varieties of flowers and foliage, and worked out how we could get even more regenerative.

Things are certainly not perfect. We have had, and continue to have, issues and failures, but we love the learning experience and have made most things work pretty well.

A wish to do something just for me

I had a good job in a great company with fantastic people, but I felt like I’d lost a lot of the passion I’d once had. I’d always given 150% to my job, but ultimately for someone else. It was hard to get my opinion heard and harder still to be listened to. If only I ruled the world! Maybe working for myself I could. At least my small part of it.

We have now scaled up again to a quarter of an acre and are starting flower farming as a small business. I’ve packed in my job and taken what I’m calling a gap year – maybe two – and we’ll see how it goes, expanding the plot a little each year.

Living life fully, bravely and beautifully

My companions are imposter syndrome and fear of failure. I see so many other flower farmers out there, many with bigger plots, who seem to know exactly what they’re doing.

I’m scared I’m going to sow loads of seeds and nothing will grow. Or too much will grow and I won’t be able to sell it. Or I’ll sell it, but never be able to make a profit.

And I’m an introvert by nature. Networking, putting myself out there on social media, getting ‘salesy’, are all well out of my comfort zone.

But, “one life on this earth is all we get … and we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can”. At best, I’ll be a role model for anyone else considering a change in career, hopefully proving that it is possible. At worst, it will be a lot of fun. The reality will probably be somewhere inbetween.

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