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The Cottage Flower Farm We grow seasonal cut flowers the natural way - no pesticides or chemicals.
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Bouquets made to order for pick up and local delivery within Ararat.Supplying mixed buckets of beautiful fresh flowers to florists and the public for DIY.

I’ve just planted out some Stock seedlings 🌱and have some extras. Stock is such a great long lasting cut flower and has ...
01/08/2024

I’ve just planted out some Stock seedlings 🌱and have some extras. Stock is such a great long lasting cut flower and has a lovely peppery scent.
This is not the dwarf stock that you buy at a plant nursery, it is a tall growing branching variety, grown for the cut flower industry.

I also have some blue Tweedia seedlings ready.

This lot are all sold, I’ll have more Tweedia seedlings available soon. 🌱

🌱Mixed Quartet seedlings x 8 $16 SOLD
🌱Rainbow Quartet Stock seedlings x 8 $16 SOLD
🌱Tweedia blue seedlings x 8 $24 SOLD

All ready to be planted out now as they are frost tolerant. 🌱
Pick up Ararat

🌸 It’s a perfect Autumn day for flower bed tidy up today! I did have to stop to pick a cute bunch though… 🌸 1 x Jar Posy...
02/05/2024

🌸 It’s a perfect Autumn day for flower bed tidy up today! I did have to stop to pick a cute bunch though…
🌸 1 x Jar Posy available today.
🌸 sold, thank you

Even after growing 22 different Chrysanthemum varieties over the last few years, Seaton’s J’Adore, which started my love...
01/05/2024

Even after growing 22 different Chrysanthemum varieties over the last few years, Seaton’s J’Adore, which started my love of Chryssies , is still my favourite!
** All sold - thank you! 💖
I have 6 potted Seaton’s J’Adore ready to go. 14cm pot. Due to demand of this variety, there is a limit of 2 per customer please.
🌸 $18 each. Pick up only

One of a flower grower’s favourite sights in their flower patch is a ladybird. Even better is a heap of them! This has b...
20/03/2024

One of a flower grower’s favourite sights in their flower patch is a ladybird. Even better is a heap of them! This has been a good season for ladybirds. Not great, but pretty good. Last year we noticed a massive decline in ladybird reproduction so it’s nice to have them back this year!
A favourite breeding ground for ladybirds is in the finished umbel flowers of the Daucus carota family including carrots and dill and parsley in the veggie garden and Ammi and Queen Anne’s lace in the flower beds.
Aphids also love to breed in these umbels so are a great food source for the ladybird larvae. Adult ladybirds can devour 50 aphids a day and their growing larvae can eat up to 200!
If you have ladybirds in your gardens you are pretty lucky!
1. Adult ladybirds mating alongside a mature larvae.
2. Adults, larvae and aphids in this finished carrot flower head.
3. A cluster of eggs.
4. A larvae munching on an aphid.
5. A larvae in a smorgasbord of aphids!
6. A young ladybird merged from pupae as pale yellow and develops her colour and spots within a few hours.
(Photo 3 and 6 taken by Colleen in our flower beds)

🐰I’ve got some Dried Flower Easter Bunnies to make this week. ** all sold, thank you! 🐰And I’ll have 3 spare!Let me know...
20/03/2024

🐰I’ve got some Dried Flower Easter Bunnies to make this week.
** all sold, thank you! 🐰
And I’ll have 3 spare!
Let me know if you’d like one. $80
Pickup this weekend.

That’s a wrap on flowers for Summer / Autumn season 2024.Thank you all for supporting our locally grown flowers and I’m ...
15/03/2024

That’s a wrap on flowers for Summer / Autumn season 2024.
Thank you all for supporting our locally grown flowers and I’m very sorry to those who missed out towards the end of Summer. The scorching sun and lack of rain just got too much for the plants in the flower beds so we’ll give the beds a rest for a while…

Featured in this bunch is our Angie’s Fuchsia dahlia. We sold a heap of tubers last year and will hopefully have a few more for sale later in the year.
~ Angie

I headed out this morning at 6:15 to beat the heat. Another scorching and windy day with a predicted top of 38•. A very ...
22/02/2024

I headed out this morning at 6:15 to beat the heat. Another scorching and windy day with a predicted top of 38•. A very scary day for bushfire threat and probably the end to a few dahlia plants too.
Today I have available:
💐💐 2 x $25 wrapped bunches. ** SOLD
🌸 1 x $35 jar posy. **SOLD

First bunch of dahlias for the season … and these were cut this morning and saved from todays awful heat and wind. 🌸
13/02/2024

First bunch of dahlias for the season … and these were cut this morning and saved from todays awful heat and wind.
🌸

I’ve just cut a few more dahlias ahead of the next few scorching hot and dry days. Sunday morning - I have 1 jar left fo...
10/02/2024

I’ve just cut a few more dahlias ahead of the next few scorching hot and dry days.
Sunday morning - I have 1 jar left for today $35 pickup 🌸

This bright and summery bunch headed out this week with wishes for a great 2024.It had a little bit of everything that i...
03/02/2024

This bright and summery bunch headed out this week with wishes for a great 2024.
It had a little bit of everything that is blooming right now. 🌼🌺🌿🌸💐
It has been a busy week. We’ve sent out birthday flowers, farewell flowers, edible flowers and just because flowers and my spare bunches on fb - ‘ooh, they’re lovely, I didn’t know I needed them’ flowers, for which I am very grateful! Thank you so much 💋

I have 2 pretty jar posies available today. The jars I have left are getting smaller so these posies are too! ** both so...
02/02/2024

I have 2 pretty jar posies available today. The jars I have left are getting smaller so these posies are too!
** both sold, thank you.
💚 These 2 are $25 each
💚 Pick up

🌸🌼🌺 What a lovely sunny and flowery day! I Still have 5 bunches available this afternoon! 1 x peachy/lemon dahlias $36 *...
30/01/2024

🌸🌼🌺 What a lovely sunny and flowery day!
I Still have 5 bunches available this afternoon!
1 x peachy/lemon dahlias $36 ** sold
1 x mixed pinky/purples $40 ** sold
1 x mixed pinky/ purples $35 ** sold
2 x jar posies $30 (1 sold)

I’ve spent a nice morning cutting these beautiful flowers. They’ll sit inside and hydrate for a few hours then will be r...
30/01/2024

I’ve spent a nice morning cutting these beautiful flowers. They’ll sit inside and hydrate for a few hours then will be ready in bunches and jar posies for you later today!
Let me know if you’d like a bunch! 💐💐💐

Hello Kotara! 🍑💚It’s nice to see you again. It’s really nice to see bright new faces each day. All the rain and hot days...
29/01/2024

Hello Kotara! 🍑💚
It’s nice to see you again.
It’s really nice to see bright new faces each day. All the rain and hot days in between has made the dahlias start blooming a bit earlier than last year.

Cutting for pretty summer posy jars today and I have 1 spare $30 ** SOLDPick up 🌸
26/01/2024

Cutting for pretty summer posy jars today and I have 1 spare
$30 ** SOLD
Pick up 🌸

All the summer pretties in this bunch. Some dahlia season firsts, and the last of the matricaria, a favourite blue Bella...
24/01/2024

All the summer pretties in this bunch.
Some dahlia season firsts, and the last of the matricaria, a favourite blue Belladonna delphinium and some pink Potomac snappies.
💖💖💖

🌸 It was lovely cutting again this morning although it took a while for the flower beds to dry off after so much rain la...
17/01/2024

🌸 It was lovely cutting again this morning although it took a while for the flower beds to dry off after so much rain last night!
Today I’ve got
💐 1 wrapped bunch $45 ** sold
🌸 1 jar posy $35 ** sold
🌸 1 jar post $30 ** sold
Pick up only

And we’re back to lovely sunny proper summer weather! I’ve been out cutting this morning and today have some extra jar p...
10/01/2024

And we’re back to lovely sunny proper summer weather!
I’ve been out cutting this morning and today have some extra jar posies, 2 with these lovely hot pink gladdies!
** all sold, thank you
💖💖 2 x $35 jars
🍑 1 x $28 (peachy tones)
Pick up only

2 pretty jars available today 💕The first of the Lavender Beauty dahlias make an appearance on the purple jar.** both sol...
05/01/2024

2 pretty jars available today 💕
The first of the Lavender Beauty dahlias make an appearance on the purple jar.
** both sold, thank you!
Purply jar $30
Orangy jar $25
Pick up only

Cutting the last of the Matricaria this morning. Final bunches available today. 3 bunches only $16 each. ** 2 soldPick u...
30/12/2023

Cutting the last of the Matricaria this morning. Final bunches available today.
3 bunches only $16 each. ** 2 sold
Pick up only

Because the flowers don’t stop for Christmas… I need to keep cutting them! All orders finished for today and 4 extra lit...
24/12/2023

Because the flowers don’t stop for Christmas… I need to keep cutting them!
All orders finished for today and 4 extra little posie jars ready for you!
1 x $35 ** sold
3 x $28 each ** all sold
Pick up only.
🌸

🌲🌲🌲4 lil Chrissy jar posies ready for new homes. Something to brighten up your Christmas table. ** all sold, thank you! ...
22/12/2023

🌲🌲🌲4 lil Chrissy jar posies ready for new homes. Something to brighten up your Christmas table.
** all sold, thank you!
4 available $28 each 🌲☀️💚
Pick up only

We’ve cut loads more Matricaria this morning and will be bunching it up shortly. 💚 Big fluffy Matricaria bunches $16 ** ...
21/12/2023

We’ve cut loads more Matricaria this morning and will be bunching it up shortly.
💚 Big fluffy Matricaria bunches $16 ** sold out
💖 2 x colourful jar posies $35ea - Sat am pick up

Mum and I have been harvesting Matricaria (feverfew) this morning. It’s just so pretty and Christmassy too! Lots of bunc...
14/12/2023

Mum and I have been harvesting Matricaria (feverfew) this morning.
It’s just so pretty and Christmassy too!
Lots of bunches available, just $15
Pick up only.

🌸 Our fresh edible flowers headed out to some local cafes today - keep an eye out for them on your yummy cakes plates an...
13/12/2023

🌸 Our fresh edible flowers headed out to some local cafes today - keep an eye out for them on your yummy cakes plates and catering goodies!
The recent rain and sun has done wonders for the flower beds and our latest summer flowers to bloom are these gorgeous big fat Cosmos!

🎄 🍃 My hands are stained green and my fingers are cramping. When you spend a day making fresh wreaths you say ‘no more’!...
07/12/2023

🎄 🍃 My hands are stained green and my fingers are cramping. When you spend a day making fresh wreaths you say ‘no more’!!’
So, this is it!
Orders done and I have
2 Fresh wreaths available today.
2 x Fresh - $88 each (1 sold)
1 x Colourful Dried Flower Wreath - $100

(Pick up only)

I’m having a plant sale! Local pick up only. My 3 favourite Chrysanthemums for gorgeous Autumn flowers:** chrysanthemums...
04/12/2023

I’m having a plant sale!
Local pick up only.
My 3 favourite Chrysanthemums for gorgeous Autumn flowers:
** chrysanthemums all sold, thank you!
Seatons J’Adore $5
Pink Fairy $5
Kelvin Mandarine $5

Tomato Yellow Currant $4
Tomato Black Cherry $4
Strawflowers $4
Gerbera (2 only) $15ea
all ready to plant now

Thank you for your orders this week! 🌸💐After bunching for orders this morning, I have 2 spare bunches. 🌸 pinks bunch $40...
01/12/2023

Thank you for your orders this week! 🌸💐
After bunching for orders this morning, I have 2 spare bunches.

🌸 pinks bunch $40 ** sold
💜 purply bunch $45 ** sold

Giftwrapped and ready to go! 💚

I made some sweet mini dried flower wreaths this morning. They’re approx  14cm diameter and look so cute hanging on the ...
30/11/2023

I made some sweet mini dried flower wreaths this morning. They’re approx 14cm diameter and look so cute hanging on the wall.
3 only available at this stage
$24ea
** All sold, thank you

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A pretty mixed bucket went out yesterday for table decorations for a special lunch 🩷Thank you to my wonderful local cust...
29/11/2023

A pretty mixed bucket went out yesterday for table decorations for a special lunch 🩷
Thank you to my wonderful local customers who have kept me busy this week and last! 🩷🩷🩷

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