A seven-acre plot between Wincanton and Bruton in sunny Somerset is home to Georgie Newbery’s renowned artisan flower farm, Common Farm Flowers.
Since 2010 Georgie and her husband Fabrizio have been creating a haven habitat for a wide variety of invertebrates by planting, maintaining, and selling the stems they harvest from this smallholding.
Common Farm Flowers is a business supplying a great many weddings and events through the year with flowers, as well as a teaching space where Georgie encourages others to release their inner garden florist, grow their own flowers, even run their own flower farming enterprise.
A tour of this farm demonstrates the kind of work that goes in to growing a wide variety of cut flowers and foliage on thick Somerset clay, and takes in the wild patches too where different kinds of wild orchids have sprung up with many other kinds of wild flowers on land which was once a monoculture of thick rye grass for feeding cattle.
These tours are held in June because people love to see the wildflower meadow as well as the polytunnels bursting with annuals and biennials, and a kilometre of metre wide beds planted up for a long season of flowers.
The tour takes two hours and includes plenty of time for questions as this is not your average pleasure garden, but a working space where time is needed to explain bed management, sowing schedules, pruning and mulching, as well as how we react to infestations of slugs or thrip or greenfly.
Information about our flower farm tour:
Our flower farm tours are limited to 20 people and will last around two hours, including time for questions and refreshments at the end. Please bring any drinks you might need whilst we are walking the farm.
Please note that our farm tours are not suitable for dogs or children.
The tour takes place out on the farm where there is no cover. Please wear clothes suitable for the weather (eg layers, waterproof clothes) and bring shoes / boots that are designed to walk on rough, grassy paths. Even on a sunny day flip flops and sandals aren’t advised and we suggest long trousers where possible due to the risk of ticks, bites and stings. A sun hat and sun protection are also advised, as we can’t always stand in the shade.
Be aware that the ground is not flat, and while we endeavour to point out trip hazards, visitors should pay attention to where they walk.
Common Farm Flowers is a working flower farm, not a show garden.
We will be in touch a few days before the tour with your joining instructions. This email will come from nicola@commonfarmflowers.com. If you’ve not heard from Nicola 48 hours before the session takes place please email nicola@commonfarmflowers.com but do please first check your junk / spam items and make sure you are checking the inbox of the email address you used to book your place.
Please familiarise yourself with our terms and conditions in case you need to cancel your place.
Make more of a trip of your day by booking lunch at The Roth Bar and visiting the galleries at Hauser and Wirth Somerset and the Piet Oudolf garden there, or head on up to Stourhead to see the famous Capability Brown landscape there. Bruton has lots of lovely places where you can stay and make a real trip of your visit to Common Farm Flowers - see our Local Links page for more information.
