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The Country Garden Flower Company

Name: The Country Garden Flower Company
Address: Carrier's Cottage, Crayes Green, Layer Breton, Colchester, CO20PN, GB
Telephone: +447775750793
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The Country Garden Flower Company Our flowers are grown within the walls of a beautiful Walled Georgian Garden, here in the heart of Essex.
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We create for our clients beautiful seasonal arrangements using our own grown material, those that are foraged for and those from other British growers. We will use those from other commercial resources to compliment a required scheme when we cannot gather from our usual sources. We aim to provide flowers for you that evoke, those that remind of a time before, those that remind of a personal momen

t in time, whether it be yours or one of someone close. We cater for Weddings, Parties, Funerals and all other occasions. If you require flowers with a personal touch and a truly 'just gathered' nostalgic feel, cast us a glance, we are only too happy to help.......

01/08/2024

Not a bad end to the day…

26/07/2024

The roadside stall at Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN is now stocked with lots of summer beauty for you all this weekend. Open 10am-dusk everyday. Come and treat yourselves 😀

21/07/2024

TAKE A LOOK!!!

We’ve got a Special Offer for you!!

Beautiful Agapanthus, Eryngium Thistle and Ammi bunches £15 each,now Buy one Get one FREE!!*.
Available from the roadside stall here at Carriers Cottage CO2 0PN, from now til dusk daily, whilst we have an abundance of these beautiful stems.

* offer applies to Agapanthus bunches purchased from our roadside stall only.

16/07/2024

From today, for Jimmy….

16/07/2024

It’s nearly the end of the school year and our roadside stall is becoming full of lovely floral thank you gifts. Alongside our usual beautiful seasonal flower bunches, we will also have our ‘Thank you’ floral mini jars, ideal for little hands to gift. All prearranged with handmade gift tag and decorative ribbon at £10 each.

Find them on our roadside stall here at Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN from 8am -dusk.

13/07/2024

NEW SCENTED WREATHS

Dress up your door this summer with one of our scented Catmint Wreaths. Made fresh that will slowly dry over the coming weeks releasing a wonderful scent as it does so. Can be used indoors or out for that added bit of Country Charm.
Available from our roadside stall right now starting from £25 each depending on size, the one shown in picture above £35.

08/07/2024

So glad we opened again today, lots of you were itching to visit but we’re put off by the weather on Saturday. Thankfully today we saw the sun!!
Today’s Bouquet Raffle winner is Helen! We’ve sent a message privately to let you know and look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks again to all who ventured out to see us over the last 3 days, we hope you enjoyed your time with us. It’s been great to see so many of your photos, it’s alway interesting to see who finds what aspects of interest within our ‘space’. It definitely seems you found a lot considering the garden isn’t huge.

We’ll be keeping you posted as to what’s coming along next, so keep following for more details to come.

07/07/2024

TAKE A LOOK! IMPROMPTU MONDAY OPEN GARDEN!

Due to the atrocious weather on Saturday, we’ve decided to open the garden again tomorrow, Monday 8/7/24 from 10am-1pm.

We’ll have a FREE hand tied bouquet demo starting at 10.30am.

We’ve heard the weather isn’t going to be too bad, so please come and join us for a peruse of the garden and morning coffee.

Carrier’s Cottage, Colchester CO2 0PN
-Garden Inspo
-Plants for sale
-Flowers for sale
-Refreshments and awesome homemade cakes!!

07/07/2024

And today’s Bouquet winner is…. Mr Stephen Hopkins, we’ve messaged you directly.

Big thanks to all who visited today, your support for what we do is very much appreciated and we hope you all enjoyed your time with us.

Luckily the weather held out today ‘til literally 3.04pm when the heavens opened, saving us having to water any plants!

Due to the atrocious weather on Saturday we’ve decided to do a little impromptu opening again tomorrow Monday 8th July from 10am-1pm, so if any of you wanted to drop by for a garden peruse and morning coffee, we’ve heard the weather isn’t supposed to be too bad!!?

06/07/2024

Thank you to all of you who braved the weather today to come and visit us here at Carrier’s Cottage. Despite the rain everyone was enjoying their time here with us and it was good to get to chat to you all. The bouquet demo didn’t get to happen until this afternoon once the sun actually made an appearance and the winner of our Bouquet Raffle is Mr T Timms. Congratulations!!!

We’re open again tomorrow from 11-3 let’s hope the weather remains kind😉

04/07/2024

Kicking off this Saturday 6-7-24 right on time for our Open Garden Weekend, here at Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN, is our new ‘Buy to Dry’ range of cut flowers. Simply buy the bunch fresh and hang somewhere airy at home preferably in the dark or at least out of direct sun, wait 3 weeks and voila, everlasting flowers to brighten up any space over the winter months. Initially we’ll have Ammobium,as modelled here by some man looking possessed (not sure who he is🤣🤣), Helichrysum, Acroclinium, Nigella, Eryngium, grasses and more! Bunches will be £9 each or any two for £15. Stem count is dependent on variety but they’re all good size bunches for the types concerned.
Available from the roadside stall but varieties will keep changing throughout the summer as the season progresses.

03/07/2024

TAKE A LOOK!!

If you love Bearded Irises have we got a treat for you!!
Visitors to our Open Garden Weekend, here at Carrier’s Cottage, will have the chance to grab some of these wonderful varieties for way under your garden centre prices. Ideal for transplanting or potting up now you can ‘fill your gardens for less’😃
Available as bare root rhizomes we have some scrummy varieties here ready for you, pick and mix at £2.50 each or 5 for £10. Only available on our Open Garden Weekend Saturday and Sunday 6-7/7/24 11am-3pm. Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN.
Come fill your boots!! No, sorry, beds and pots. We meant beds and pots🤣🤣🤣

02/07/2024

If you’re coming along to our Open Garden weekend here at Carrier’s Cottage (please look up previous pinned posts for full details)
We’ll be holding a free to attend demonstration on how you, at home, can create a beautiful hand tied bouquet using seasonal flowers. There will be a morning session and afternoon session on both days (with no set time, just when we feel the time is right😉)
The flowers created will be raffled off after with the proceeds going to our local primary school’s ’Mud Club’, that encourages young folk to garden! The winners of each bouquet will be notified at the end of each day we are open, for collection the following day.

Carrier’s Cottage Open Garden weekend
Saturday and Sunday 6-7/7/24 11am-3pm
Colchester CO2 0PN

Cottage Garden - Plants - Flowers - Demonstrations - Artists Open Studio - Refreshments - Wicked Homemade Cakes😉

02/07/2024

We’ll be swinging our garden gate open again this coming Saturday and Sunday here at Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN for another of our open garden weekends.

We’ll be letting you in on more of what’s going on as we continue to get ready over the next few days but what we can definitely promise is a beautiful garden with lots of unusual plants within and some inspiring planting combinations for you gain ideas. Together with an open artist’s studio with a whole load of new works to peruse, lots of beautiful flowers , a lovely range of unusual plants to help boost your planting schemes to give interest right up until autumn and plenty of homemade delicious cakes.
Keep following along as there will be a few surprises thrown in too.

It will be great to see you all again so you can experience our garden in summer and see how much it changes with each season

We hope you can make it!!

14/06/2024

This weekend’s flowers from the stall are looking mighty fine! It’s included within every bunch and they’ve never looked so good!!😊

Come and treat yourselves whilst they’re at their best.

The Roadside Stall, Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN

13/06/2024

One from earlier today, for a lady with South African roots….

26/05/2024

The sun is shining between the ominous clouds today for sure, typical bank holiday weather hey??

We’ve just finished cutting and creating some beautiful bouquets and they are now on the roadside stall here at Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN. Peonies of all colours now available together with some stunning delphiniums within the mixes. The latter are definitely loving all the rain we’ve been having this year!
So if you’re visiting friends or simply want to treat yourselves, come grab a bunch or two.😊

21/05/2024

Apologies for this not coming to Facebook sooner, we thought it had been shared across from instagram yesterday🤦‍♂️

A quick montage of our visitor’s photos they have sent us of Carrier’s Cottage Garden!

BIG THANKS to all who visited The Country Garden Flower Company’s home garden last weekend. We hope you all enjoyed it and you’ve now found homes within your own gardens and vases for all the plants and flowers you purchased!

We’re very much hoping everyone left feeling inspired and we’d answered all of your plant/ flower questions.

Lots of you asked if we would be doing this again and the answer is yes, so you can see how the garden develops through the seasons, but we’ll keep you posted as to the date. (Probably with a touch more notice next time😉)

We were definitely very lucky with the weather this time for sure!

In the meantime an ever changing selection of plants and seasonal flowers can be found upon our roadside stall here at Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN from 10am-dusk everyday.

If you would be interested in visiting us next time please drop a comment below or tag somebody you think maybe interested 😊

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13/05/2024

KER-POWW!!! And just like that the Peonies are ready! And nearly 3 weeks earlier than last year😃
Always the Corals first for us and these beauts will be hitting the roadside stall from 10am tomorrow, here at Carrier’s Cottage, CO2 0PN.

Come and get ‘em Folks! 😃😃😃

09/05/2024

Continued….

Catch up with previous post if you’re interested…

FEED YOUR PEONIES!!! (Second most common mistake!)
You can’t expect a plant to produce lots of, what are quite massive, blooms without good sustenance. After the initial w**d clearance of the season just as the shoots start to show our plants are fed with organic Fish, Blood and Bone meal at a rate of 30g /sqM around the crown, they are then mulched with organic composted green waste and left to do their thing until the blooms have been harvested. If you are cutting make sure you cut the stems to forearm length only, leave plenty of foliage on the stems to help feed that root back up!
After flowering they will be fed again at the same rate with the feed above and irrigated over the hottest driest months. Early September they will be fed again, just as the plant is building up the buds for the following year below ground. They are then left to die down naturally for the winter with the spent top growth removed once it has become dried/ straw coloured.

If you have to lift your peony plants to relocate or make more shallow in the ground, please wait until the winter time when the plant is dormant to do so.

Hope this helps and you all get to achieve good results😃

09/05/2024

Our post is coming along in two parts. If you’re interested please check out both.

We’re now on the cusp of our Peony harvest and once it starts we’ll end up with yet another question thrown at us, that is asked by many….

‘My Peony plant has never flowered, I’ve had it for years what should I do???’

Answer: Hybrid Peonies are complete DIVAS. Once established they will do well and perform there annual display continuously for years to come, the problem is planting them in the correct place/way initially and their aftercare.
Peonies are tolerant of most soils except those extremely sandy and free draining that don’t hold on to their nutrients for long, so be aware of this when choosing your planting position. Peonies also require full sun to flower well. They will grow in shade but on the whole will just provide you lush green leaves on a yearly basis with not a bud in sight. Plant them with at least 8hrs per day of direct summer sunlight preferably more. Do NOT let them become over shadowed or made to compete with surrounding plants for nutrients and water. Peonies within a mixed border do not do well unless you make a conscious effort to rid nearby plant encroachment. Make sure you get to see some soil around individual peony plants at the base and let them breathe!
Our peonies for flower production are planted 1m apart and nothing else is allowed to grow near them and they are hand w**ded 3-4 times throughout the growing season.

DON’T PLANT TOO DEEP!! (Most common mistake!)
The plant requires only 2-3cm of soil above the top of the tuberous root where the shoots appear from. Too deep and the plant will only produce leaves with perhaps the odd tiny bud that will never open.

DON’T BUY CHEAP!!
We’ve all made that mistake! Buying cheap never pays. Cheaper tubers/potted plants will usually come with less eyes (growth buds) usually 2-3. Find them with at least 4-5 eyes if you can they will establish better and come into flower faster

SACRIFICE BUDS MADE IN THE FIRST YEAR!!
Remove all flower buds in the first year if you see any being formed. Just the bud, leave all the foliage on the stem to help build the crown of the plant and establish that tuberous root! Look after that root and results will come.

Follow on with part 2 on next post…

26/04/2024

We’re glad you’re loving our ‘new look’ roadside stall!!!

We’ve been busy cutting and bouquet making all ready for you guys this weekend and the bunches now contain some wonderful tulips, viburnum, lilac, scented stocks, ranunculus and more between them.

Our new range of plants for your cutting gardens is also going down well, the perennials are flying! With some lines now already sold out or getting pretty low, don’t hesitate to call by and peruse if you’ve got some spaces to fill.

This weekend only, WHILST STOCKS LAST, we have a fantastic offer for you on Blue Cornflower and Orlaya plants (as shown in pic 2and 3) probably two of the best varieties for a fast harvest to fill your vases. This weekend only these two varieties will be £3 each or 4plants for £10!!!

COME AND TREAT YOURSELVES!!!
Find us at Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN, open 10am-dusk every day

Address

Carrier's Cottage, Crayes Green, Layer Breton
Colchester
CO20PN

Opening Hours

Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm
Sunday	10am - 4pm

Telephone

+447775750793

Website

http://www.thecountrygardenflowercompany.com/

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Flowers for the weekend?

The roadside stall at Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN is now stocked with lots of summer beauty for you all this weekend. Open 10am-dusk everyday. Come and treat yourselves 😀

TAKE A LOOK!!It is Madness!! Beautiful mixed peony and seasonal flower bouquet available from our roadside stall here at Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN for just one day from 11am- stocks last. BUY 2 get 3rd bouquet FREE!!!!Come fill your homes with beautiful British blooms or make someone’s day and take them a bunch!!!COME AND HET THEM FOLKS😃😃😃

Mother’s Day

Our Mothers Day pop up is all restocked and ready for you! Loads of beautiful and unusual gifts for all of your Mums😊 Come and see us at Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN open today from 10am-6pm Cash and cards accepted during these open hours

Bring a little of Spring in! Beautiful early spring cut flowers and bulb planters all set to burst into bloom available from the roadside stall here at Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN from 10am -dusk daily. Cash only at the moment please😊 (but this is all set to change to give you guys more ways to pay soon, keep your eyes peeled, we’ll let you know when!! 😃)

From today for Phoebe and John

Let’s do this! #Mothersday2023

For Holly and Dan today at @eastmerseahall, with a colour scheme we’d been itching to get creative with all season!!

Drowsy Bumble, caught out in the recent deluge, drying off on the lip of one of our favourite flowers. Her friend, who obviously escaped the rain, is very busy taking all the gatherings back to her nest under one of our old Butler Sink planters….🐝😊😊 #bumblebee #busybee #foxglove #juneflowers #seasonalflowers ##britishflowers #thecountrygardenflowercompany

It’s that time of year again….bed prep for all of the successional half hardy annual flower plants. All but the last few batches of hardy annuals are now in their beds and growing away well, now for a whole load more planting over the next few weeks😃😃😃 #onthetrustytinytractor #slowprocess #bedprep #seasonalflowers #britishflowers #thecountrygardenflowercompany

Early morning down at the flower farm, the birds are thinking it’s Spring. The little ones are singing and the Swans on the lake beyond are beginning to send off their previous year’s offspring to make way for this season’s clutch. The resident pair managed to raise 7 to maturity, I think, if I counted correctly. Let’s see what this year brings…. #springiscoming #seasonalshift #swans #earlymorninggoingson #seasonalflowers #thecountrygardenflowercompany

You guys have been on fire the past few days!!! We’re so sorry for those of you who arrived late on Saturday afternoon that we had completely sold out of flowers but don’t fear we’ve been cutting again this morning and stocks are now replenished and available from the stall here at Carrier’s Cottage CO2 0PN. SUNDAY FLOWERS ARE GO!!!!!😍