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Stunning flowers grown and arranged by us, delivered locally in Bristol. Get in touch to find out how we can bring nature into your home.
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Set in the city of Bristol, we work with the seasons to grow and create unique bouquets and arrangements.

23/09/2024

Beautiful marshmallow harvest at the end of last week.

Now back to dodging the rain showers… oh wait… there’s been no break since 8am!!

17/09/2024

It was cold last week but luckily not so cold that our field grown flowers would be done for the year. Here’s a few photos of recent bouquets. Do get in touch if you’d like to order some for yourself or as a gift.

All sustainably grown to celebrate nature, not exploit it.

12/09/2024

This last fortnight our shed has been bursting with buckets and buckets of dahlias. September is their month and they’re standing defiantly before all the growing challenges of this year.

Constant unrelenting pests have meant we lost the lions share of our white and pastel tulips in the Spring. You guessed it, the bright red ones they left alone!

Hungry slugs have taken a lot of our seedlings out, munched some dahlias repeatedly to the base and in spite of re-sowing 4 times. We are still missing some key varieties. We’re hoping for a harsh winter to kill next years slugs… but just not starting this Friday with super low night time temperatures please! 🙏

02/09/2024

And we’re back!

For the first time since we started the wild zinnia we’ve had a holiday at the same time! Thank you to and Emily for keeping our babies alive whilst we were away.

The field was overflowing with flowers when I arrived today. A good thing too because we’ve got a very busy week ahead. Nothing like jumping in at the deep end.

So here are the first buckets picked this week.

23/08/2024

Just a few new favourites as we turn our out of office on! We’ll be back in a week with the dahlias in full stride. Happy Bank Holiday!

21/08/2024

I promised myself I wouldn’t leave it too late this year!

These beautiful ones are not standard flowers from a packet. They’re all pop up surprises which are a little bit different from what they’re meant to be! And they absolutely mustn’t be cut so they’re labelled, in fact every stem is labelled so no one coming for flowers and tea picks them, so I don’t pick them, and so they have time to set seed before the mornings turn damp and it’s too late!

14/08/2024

Is there anything more lovely than an ombré dahlia harvest?

10/08/2024

There are something so watchable about dancing meadow vases running the length of the table. Mesmerising.

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05/08/2024

First bucket of the week and it’s a beauty. Whimsical and romantic was the brief.

Florists do get in touch and send us your mood board for upcoming weddings to see how we can help.

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03/08/2024

What an absolute joy to open our emails to the incredible shots of Hannah and Marks wedding captured by back in May, prime poppy season. We’ve got availability for May next year so do get in touch if you’d like to talk May wedding flowers.

27/07/2024

30/06/2024

All the delicate extras from Thursdays summer pastels wedding for D+W.

Garden Roses, bouncing Sanguisorba and quaking grasses.

To the first weekend as Mr and Mrs x

29/06/2024

For Dom and Will. A total dream to work with, trusting us to pick them the best flowers perfectly ready this week for their moment. There will be more photos to follow so watch this space.

28/06/2024

However challenging we are finding the weather; the sweet peas are loving it! Sending up long stems, filling the room with their intoxicating scent and in an array of colours. We’re delighted our bunches, buckets and florists orders will be filled with them next week.

Happy Friday!

25/06/2024

Picking to a palette is one of our favourite things! It’s the culmination of all the winter planning, seed sowing and constant revision of the flowers we grow. This bucket, this is the middle of our colour palette, what we always want more of, so as we harvest seed from the poppies, divide the astilbes and wait for the first dahlias if we’ve planned it right, there’s many more buckets of apricot to come!

09/06/2024

As we sign off from a big thank you to all our wonderful florists who trust us with their mood boards to pick the right things for them to weave their magic! We’re totally in awe of what you do and love that you’ve chosen to use our flowers and trust what’s best on the day!

And we’re not picked out, even after this week, so we’ve opened up orders on the webshop!

Happy Sunday.

03/06/2024

Gorgeous buckets of frothy blues, whites and lilacs going out for a DIY wedding at the start . This week highlights the amazing flowers available to everyone - florists and the British public - grown in our very green and pleasant land!

are running it this year and they have a super search function to find growers who are most local to you so you can buy the freshest and planet friendliest flowers available.

This week loads of local Bristol growers are supplying so don’t miss out!!

26/05/2024

Enjoying the remnants of a flower-filled weekend. Happy Sunday evening. X

17/05/2024

Congratulations to Rachel and Neil!! Thank you so much for sharing your photos and taking the time to let us know how much you enjoyed our flowers. It was a total joy to provide flowers for you guys- our dream customers trusting us with your brief of seasonal and wild!

13/05/2024

It’s Monday and with this weekends record temperatures I know what I’ll find in the polytunnel today… open poppies! With 5 small ones between us we don’t work the weekend so Monday is always a day of catching up with the field.

The seedlings will be gasping for a drink, the leatherjackets cowering beneath the surface knowing this is the day for treatment 3 of the nematodes (this weeks water more soggy forecast making it a perfect day to get on with it!) and the dahlias will carry on going out into their forever homes. Happy Monday x

22/04/2024

It’s Earth Day today; so it seems like the right kind of day to share how we’ve decided to do farewell flowers differently.
If you come to us for Farewell flowers we’ll ask you to meet us on site at our farm. We’ll chat flowers with birdsong in the background, we’ll leave you with your thoughts and your memories and ask you to choose your favourites for your loved one’s final farewell. We’ll do the arranging, we’ll use zero plastic products; making our flowers perfect for green burial sites and we’ll deliver them all for you.
You’ll get flowers you’ve chosen, perfectly in their season and we’ll all tread a little lighter.

Here’s a casket spray from last week, flowers chosen by her family, designed to be taken apart after the service for the family to all take a bunch away with them.

22/04/2024

It’s here! After weeks of Icelandic poppies creeping into buckets in 2’s and 3’s the sunshine of the last week has seen them up their game and we’ve now got quantity!

But they’re hot property so if you want them get it in our books! Always picked in cracked bud and ready to open when you want them.

➡️for the yellow rogues now consigned to our gardens so they don’t ruin the Perfect apricot palette!

21/04/2024

Spring colours this week. Our bouquets smelling so good this week with wallflowers, ranunculus, apple blossom and the last of our lilac.

01/04/2024

April is here!! Celebrate spring with our bunches of speciality tulips. Available in bunches of 10, 25 and 40. Expect fragrance (yes tulips really are meant to have a fragrance!), multiple silky petals and impossibly perfect colours.

31/03/2024

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter.

This window installation at Emmanuel Bishopston makes me smile every time. The smiley narcissi, perfect primulas and buds shooting from bulbs, reminding us of a promise of hope. We also had the assistance of the smaller members for our gorgeous eggs and they did an excellent job so thank you to them!

25/03/2024

Easter bowls

Available now to pre-order in time for the weekend. Full of fragrance, colour and movement, our bowls use only sustainable methods that can be reused season after season.

Enjoy watching our speciality tulips unfurl before your eyes and be intoxicated by the scent of the narcissi. Spring is here

18/03/2024

Colour me pretty!!! Our gorgeous dusky pinks of March are giving way to the pops of spring colour and we are hear for it.

Spring bouquets are available to buy through our shop this week. We usually ask for a days notice to give us time to pick and arrange but we always welcome short notice phone calls- if we can make you a bouquet, we will!

07/03/2024

***Mothers Day***

Thank you to everyone who’s order our flowers- we’ve wonderfully sold out of Mother’s Day bouquets but still have our single bunches of Just Hellebores available to order from our shop.

The royalty of spring flowers, these multiheaded stems in deep plum tones will have you mesmerised.

Head to our shop to order yours

23/02/2024

Because I still prefer a photo over a reel!

Hellebores
Cherry blossom
Narcissi erlicheer
Leucojeum
Viburnum tinus

Mechanics: willow armature with florist tape

25/01/2024

A little round up from the farm this week. It’s always tempting to think that after each cold snap, that’s it and Spring has begun; but I know better than to rely on yesterday’s sunshine!

It’s the time of year when we start to think about Mother’s Day flowers; quite what we will have in flower is always a gamble… but scroll to see the contenders. It’s looking good!

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The Elms Farm, Hardy Lane, Tockington
Bristol
BS324LJ

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http://www.thewildzinnia.com/

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Pest control… #britishflowers #sustainableflowers #seasonalflowers

Weekend wedding joy. I can’t wait to share photos of this weekends bridal bouquet, but that will have to wait. For now I leave you with this beautiful July bouquet featuring the first dahlias of the year. #sustainableweddingflowers #wzjuly #britishflowers #bristolweddingflorist #julyweddingflowers

Happy Friday!!! This bridal was made for Lucy earlier in August. Gorgeous peachy and salmon dahlias steal the show here. If you’re getting married in August or September than dahlias are THE flower. Available in so many colours, shapes and sizes. They are an absolute favourite. If you’re getting married in 2025 and want to find out what seasonal flowers are available to adorn your wedding day, then drop us a message and we’d love to talk to you. #britishflowers #sustainableweddingflowers #wzaugust #augustweddingflowers #bristolweddingflorist #sustainableweddingflorist

The dahlias are coming!!! I’m an excited school child again 😍😍😍😍

Throwback to these beautiful meadow buds we arranged for Hannah and mark in May. #wzmay #mayweddingflowers #britishweddingflowers #seasonalflowers #sustainableweddingflowers

We are heading into wedding season big time this month starting next week so here is a little flash back to this gorgeous festival inspired bouquet for Amy at @theoldspot this time last year when May felt like Summer. #wzwedding #sustainableweddingflowers #wzmay #britishflowers #greenweddingflowers #mayweddingflowers

It’s apple blossom time! We have stems between 1m and 2m (and a few shorties perfect for bouquets) so florists get in touch if you’d like some this week. #wzapril #appleblossom #seasonalflowers

Harvesting simply beautiful stems this week. #wzapril #britishflowers #seasonalflowers

I love daffodils. But there’s a sad assumption that they should cost pennies because well, they can be bought in a supermarket for pennies. Our daffodils are grown without pesticides. A choice we feel very strongly about- our planet cannot sustain humanity’s level of consumption at all costs and so we must take steps to produce in a sustainable way. For us, this means accepting that some of our beautiful daffs will be a tasty treat for the slugs which in turn become a tasty treat for the toads, birds and hedgehogs. It also means they’re slower to harvest. We grow on a very small scale to those that supply supermarkets. We can’t compete with their race to lowest price but neither do we want to. We’re glad that our farm is filling people’s homes with flowers whilst sustaining local wildlife. Is this something you feel strongly about too? #britishflowers #farmher #slowgrownflowers #sustainableliving

NOW IN - bunches of Just Tulips. These are specialty tulips: fragrant, big, unusual, long lasting. Expect to be blown away. Available in bunches of 10, 25 and 40 and can be collected or delivered locally. #sustainablebritishflowers #britishspringflowers #tulips

Spring has arrived at The Wild Zinnia. Poppies, tulips, wallflowers and daffs are bringing the colour. Head to our website to orders yours this week. X #springishere #britishflowers #springflowers #sustainableflowers #sustainableflowersbristol #wzmarch

We’re really excited to be taking bookings for our seed sowing workshop. What can you expect? 2 hours of knowledge, practical experience, cake, birdsong and laughter Designed for starting seeds with the only a small space and minimal equipment Space to enjoy nature with your own thoughts You’ll leave with armfuls of sown-seeds and seedlings #£5 off booking your next workshop with us- why not get confidence with dahlias in our dahlia workshop? #seedsowingworkshop #onewithnature #mindfulmoments #sustainablebristol

Our wedding vibe… are we a match? 🌸seasonal- we never use high CO2 👣 out of season flowers or imports 🌸we love a wild style with PLENTY of movement 🌸 fragrance. Always. 🌸 curated colour - we grow colours that work beautifully together and we know how to use them If you’re getting married local to Bristol and love our style, drop us a DM and we’d love to talk further with you. #bristolbrides #seasonalwedding #sustainableweddingflowers #wzmay #yourdayyourway #britishweddingflowers

Top tip for spring bunches with daffs in… Daffs leak a sap from freshly cut stems that make other flowers go over more quickly. So if you get a bunch with daffs in- don’t recut the stems. Or if you do, put them in a separate vase of water for a couple of hours to allow the sap to dissipate and then put the daffs back into the bunch. #britishflowers #daffodillove #daffodilbunches

Happy first birthday to our beloved polytunnel!! More than just a covered space for growing tender plants, we start our seedlings off here, host workshops and flowers and tea for two, hide from the rain, soak of the snippets of sun at the beginning and end of the season, enjoy multiple cups of tea. We love it and so do our star crops that we grow in it- poppies, orlaya, phlox, rudbeckia and many more! I meant to do this reel last year. Better late than never. #polytunnellife #britishflowers #seasonalflowers #weloveourpolytunnel

Our Everlasting Posies are unique. They are unique because they don’t cost the literal Earth. Each stem has been grown by us in our field, with no pesticides, and then naturally dried. We never use dyes to colour our flowers, they don’t need it. And so what you have is a beautiful gift that doesn’t compromise on integrity. They are gorgeous, indulgent and decadent and they are good for the planet. You should buy one. Which colour do you love?