Compton Garden Flowers

10/06/2024

Lovely these poppies

Flowering freely for the past few weeks and giving me lots of pleasure when adding to florist buckets. Hopefully they will keep going just a little bit longer!!

07/06/2024

Introducing Georgia - who is joining Compton Garden Flowers on a part time basis.

Already making a huge difference! the bed you see was cleared in a few hours!!! I wish I had taken a before shot!!

Georgia is building a portfolio of working with growers and already has two flower farmers and a market gardener as clients.

Welcome Georgia - it’s a real pleasure to have you on board.

03/06/2024

Experiment with Pansy’s!

I absolutely love pansy’s, the colours so vibrant and varied. And the flowering period is very long as long as you deadhead regularly. The only downside is we don’t get great stem length - whilst lovely in bud vases, would be so good to include in bouquets too.

So we are trying to increase stem length by getting the plants to stretch for the light. Growing each plant really close together and under a hedge.

Here’s hoping it works!! 🤞

14/05/2024

What a difference a week makes, especially when the sun shines !!!

Masses of foxgloves flowering - these are the very beautiful Sutton’s Apricot and Alba in the background

12/05/2024

We have a beautiful church in our village and I have recently taken on helping organising church flowers.

During the season we cut foliage and flowers from the churchyard and often use a mix of wild flowers and flowers from our gardens. We decorate sustainably and don’t use floral foam, which means our flowers are always in water - unless dried.

The sun this week has bought out the flowers, at last! And I was able to include a fabulous selection in this simply vase arrangement. Buttercups, cow parsley, sweet rocket, viburnum opulus, campion, corncockle and ribes

08/05/2024

Foxgloves nearly ready.

These gorgeous tall spires were sown last summer and planted out in the field in the autumn. As a biennial they complete their life cycle within two years/seasons. Germinating from seed and putting on leaf grown in the first year and then flowering and setting seed before dying back in the second. I will be sowing next years foxgloves this July!

These will be ready for cutting shortly - the colours I have chosen this season are white and a beautifully light apricot- more pictures when they burst!

02/05/2024

First sweet-peas!!

These first few early flowering varieties are grown in the tunnel and were included in DIY buckets collected this morning by a lovely couple getting married on Saturday.

Have a fabulous wedding day I&L.

20/04/2024

These pansies are gorgeous!!!

At the moment they have tiny stems and are only good for tiny winy bud vases. I will plant in large tubs and keep close to the hedge, in shade. This will help them stretch for the light and fingers crossed we will get longer stems as they flower all summer long !!

18/04/2024

Tulips - brights!!!

I do love this colour combo!!!

17/04/2024

And 17 days later!!!

One of the absolute delights of this job is to see the seeds you have sown, germinate into tiny plants!!

01/04/2024

Yet more seed sowing today!!!

have started sowing all the half hardy annuals. Next will bee Wed the next succession of the most popular annuals !!

30/03/2024

Bouquet full of spring loveliness to say happy birthday to a special customer.

Slowly the flowers are coming! The sun has come out today and it will make all the difference. Hard to believe that tomorrow we will be on British summertime. My tulips are still stubbornly slow to flower - these British beauties from in Lincolnshire !!

12/03/2024

Here are the very beautiful Tagetes, Burning Embers - more commonly known as French Marigolds.

I sow these every year and love the rich red upper petal colour with an underneath of golden yellow and to top it all the petals free and look like velvet!!

Swipe to see what the seedlings look like at the moment!!! Never ceases to amaze me how these seeds turn into beautiful flowers.

10/03/2024

One of many bouquets leaving Compton Garden Flowers this weekend.

Thank you to all our amazing customers whether you ordered direct or visited our pop up shop yesterday at - Happy Mother’s Day and thank you

07/03/2024

Bucket fulls of hellebores.

These beauties are always such a joy this time of year and will be making there way into Mothers Day bouquets over the coming days.

we will be at with a pop up shop on Saturday morning with gorgeous flowers for Mothers Day. We don’t yet have a huge selection of flowers here but I have sourced British flowers from Cornwall and Lincolnshire to complement the ones grown here - so there will be some beautiful spring flowers to choose from, all of which British grown

03/03/2024

After a very difficult year for tulips last year, I am growing this years crop in large tree tubs.

All is looking good so far, fingers crossed in a few weeks we will have some beautiful and interesting tulips

03/03/2024

02/03/2024

Well we didn’t expect that!!!

This is what makes working with the seasons so very special! Luckily our British grown plants are very resilient!!