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What qualities do you need to be a flower farmer?

July 04, 2017
Posted by Georgie Newbery

We had the garden team from Yeo Valley HQ here at Common Farm Flowers between Bruton and Wincanton in Somerset yesterday - what a compliment that t...

It's British Flowers week!

June 19, 2017
Posted by Georgie Newbery

Woohoo! It's British Flowers week! The annual celebration of our lovely home grown not flown flower growing industry. All over the UK flower farm...

Foxgloves as a cut flower

June 11, 2017
Posted by Georgie Newbery

Foxgloves as a cut flower are absolutel winners: tall, graceful, velvety stems, speckled fairy hat flowers, and flowering from mid may and through ...

May Gardening Tips

May 15, 2017
Posted by Georgie Newbery

So what are we doing in the garden? Well, new dahlia stock is being kept under cover till we harden it off from mid May and it won’t be planted out...

May News

May 01, 2017
Posted by Georgie Newbery

Well it’s been a glorious spring - and I hope it’s going to be a glorious summer. Can it already be May? It’s planting out a go-go here, despite ...

April Gardening Tips

April 14, 2017
Posted by Georgie Newbery

Although strange urges do take one at this time of year: accepted practise is that you wait until you can feel the earth radiating heat until you s...

April News

April 01, 2017
Posted by Georgie Newbery

It can’t be April already? This year is sweeping by. We had a glorious weekend of really springy weather just now and I spent most of it standing s...

Ordering cut flower seed

August 01, 2016
Posted by Georgie Newbery

For more on growing cut flowers for fun, for weddings and special events, and even how to be an artisan flower farmer like me, come on a workshop h...