Hydons Flowers

02/11/2024

After a bit of deliberation, we’re delighted to announce we’ll be hosting two wreath making workshops in our wonderful barn space in hydesitle, Saturday 30th Nov in the morning and Tuesday 3rd in the evening. We’d love to see you there ❤️😍

🌲Join Us for a Wreath-Making Workshop!

What You’ll Experience:
Escape to our charming rustic barn at Hydons Flowers, nestled in the picturesque Hydestile, Godalming, Surrey, for a fun 3-hour wreath-making workshop.

Create Your Own Wreath:
Immerse yourself in the beautiful surroundings of our farm as you craft a stunning wreath to take home using home grown and forged materials.

Learn and Design:
We’ll kick off the workshop by exploring a variety of materials and discussing what makes the perfect sustainable wreath. After a demonstration of the wreath-making process, you’ll have the chance to unleash your creativity and design your own unique piece. No two wreaths come out the same.

Enjoy the Atmosphere:
As you work on your wreath, enjoy complimentary warm drinks, snacks, mulled wine, and festive mince pies to keep your spirits high! Feel free to visit out, goats, pigs and chickens and wander around the flower beds.

What We Provide:
- All materials needed to create your wreath
- Light refreshments (please inform us in advance of any dietary requirements or allergies)
- On-site toilet for your convenience

Who Can Attend:
- Participants must be 12 years or over and accompanied by an adult if under 18.

Reserve Your Spot:
Book your place today! Email us at [email protected] with the following details:
- Your Name
- Email Address
- Phone Number
- Number of Attendees
- Any Dietary Requirements
- Consent to be contacted

Don’t Miss Out!

Numbers are limited so to secure your spot please email [email protected]

17/10/2024

Very proud of my assistant today, one of our Green Hub teen volunteers, who helped create this arrangement for , what a star ⭐️

Everything grown and harvested from our field, chicken wire mechanics and travelled two miles down the road in an electric car - can’t get a better carbon footprint than that 😀

10/10/2024

It’s world mental health day today and here at Hydon’s Flowers we completely believe in the benefit’s of social and therapeutic, horticulture to help improve wellbeing.
We are a nonprofit community interest company and host teenagers through charity weekly which is a total privilege.
As we continue to evolve, we’re looking for ways to further positively impact our local community, watch this space 2025 will be good! (And get in touch if you have any ideas!)

In the meantime, hug a tree, plant a bulb, lie on the grass, all these small activities are good for you!

05/10/2024

The sun is setting on the 2024 fresh flower season, next up dried flowers, winter berries and greenery

Fresh flowers will be back next spring.
🍁

20/09/2024

September flowers keep on giving!

We’re now waiting for the frosts to call a halt to fresh flowers but for now we still have such a bounty of dhalias, sunflowers and rudbeckia



Photo credit to

14/09/2024

And here we are in September! It’s been a busy season not all of it has made it to the gram, but we’re now in the closing weeks of fresh flowers waiting for heavy frosts to call it quits. Narrowly escaped this week 🙄!!!

This was this weeks harvest still full of vibrancy and colour!

02/09/2024

Hey!
We’re looking for a lovely part-time grower/helper at the farm. Do you know where we should advertise? Any suggestions?

Rough job description here but open to ideas!

Flower Farmer Coordinator:
We are a small flower farm in the beautiful Surrey countryside. We are a community interest company with two goals:
1) To help people through social therapeutic horticulture
2) To grow beautiful flowers and veg we can sell to support the project and donate the surplus to local good causes.

We are in our infancy and, with a team of mostly volunteers, continue to evolve every year.
To support our continued growth it’s become clear we need a little more help from a passionate and organised individual to join our team on a permanent basis as a Flower Farmer Coordinator.

To thrive in this role you will have a passion for gardening and a proven green thumb, along with the ability to effectively communicate planting plans and coordinate the volunteers and their tasks on our flower farm.

Key Responsibilities:
· Plan, plant, and grow flowers according to the planting schedule you've created with the flower farm owner
· Coordinate and oversee volunteers to assist with farm tasks, including creating and managing the volunteer rota
· Maintain a detailed list of farm jobs and delegate tasks as needed
· Run regular PYO sessions during summer
· Initiate a bucket subscription service for 2025
· Keep farm gate stacked with flowers
· Coordinate harvest to donate program
· Utilise IT skills to track inventory, sales, and other farm-related data
· Collaborate with local charities to create and maintain programs to support community outreach through social, therapeutic horticulture

Required experience and qualifications:
· Previous experience in flower farming or gardening a must, RHS level 2 certification is a bonus but not essential, training alongside can be supported
· Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
· Ability to work independently and as part of a team
· Proficiency in computer skills, CRM, social media, etc.

We work around the seasons, so you will need to be flexible around when you work your hours (busy in the summer, quiet in the winter) and occasional weekend work will also be necessary.
If you are a motivated and versatile individual with a love for flowers and a knack for sales, we would love to hear from you.

Apply now with a CV to [email protected] to come and work on our beautiful farm.

27/08/2024

Join us Saturday 7th September for a fun Pick-Your-Own event in our lush field!

For just £30, you can fill a small bucket with 30-40 beautiful stems of your choosing.

We have time slots at 10/10.30/11/11.30!

Places are limited so so for more info and to secure your spot, go to the link:

https://tr.ee/VLe2WC5-hR

Don’t miss out on this blooming opportunity! 🌸🌿

25/08/2024

Beautiful flowers for a beautiful couple 😍
So pleased our flowers could be a small part of this special day

floristry
Flowers grown by us!!



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23/08/2024

🌼🌿 Join Our Team! 🌱🌸

Are you passionate about gardening and making a difference in your community? We’re looking for a part-time Flower Farmer/Coordinator to join our small flower farm in Surrey! 🌻 As a community interest company, we’re dedicated to helping others through social therapeutic horticulture and growing beautiful flowers and veggies to support ourselves and local causes. 🌿

Key Responsibilities:
🌷 Plan, plant, and grow flowers
👩‍🌾 Coordinate volunteers and tasks
📋 Maintain farm jobs list and delegate tasks
🍓 Run PYO sessions and initiate a subscription service
🌺 Collaborate with local charities for community outreach

Requirements:
🌟 Experience in flower farming or gardening
🗣 Strong organizational and communication skills
💻 Proficiency in computer skills and social media
🐐Animals are part of our offering so a love of them a must.

If you’re a motivated and versatile individual with a love for growing and sales, we want to hear from you! 🌸 Apply now to join our beautiful farm and be a part of something special. 🌼🌿

(Approx 4 mornings, 12hrs p/w rates depending on experience approx £15-20p/h negotiable)

Application closing date Monday 16th sept

19/08/2024

Our flowers out there making people happy ❤️

17/08/2024

Less picking, more damage control 🌻😀 fun!

A “little” sunflower picking session Hydons Flowers ! 🌻🌻

Despite the quieter days of the summer holidays, our core group of teens continues to enjoy spending time at both of our locations - Caroline’s garden and Hydon’s Farm - picking flowers, feeding the goats, weeding the beds and cutting the grass.

If you have just landed on our page and would like to know more about what we do and how we help teenagers and their parents, please check our website (👉🏻 https://greenhub.org.uk/).

03/08/2024

Hello! We’ve reached 1000 followers, so I thought it was about time I properly introduced us.

Hydon’s Flowers is a Community Interest Company (CIC) that was originally founded in late 2020 with a partner who had ambitions of growing and selling cut flowers commercially. However, following a significant life change and my partner relocating, I found myself at a crossroads, questioning whether I could or should continue alone.

I was determined to carry on in some capacity, and after six months of navigating through various challenges and slowly building a network of like-minded individuals, I realised my passion for supporting the community. My true ‘profit’ lies in helping people. This led me to reach out to , and in June ‘23, we became one of their three sites, offering social, therapeutic horticulture to enhance the well-being of young people. This transition also saw us transform from a limited company status to a CIC, demonstrating our unwavering commitment to not-for-profit endeavours.

We continue to grow and adapt, I now have a dedicated group of AMAZING volunteers who gather every Tuesday to help maintain the farm for our community outreach programs. We sell the flowers to support the project by the bucket and, for 2024, florist is selling our high-quality artisan flowers in the form of gift bouquets or event flowers on behalf of Hydon’s Flowers. We have hosted a couple of very successful Pick-Your-Own events and aim to organise another one in September.

Ultimately, my vision is to establish a genuine social enterprise that not only sustains local employment but also benefits the community. Time will tell!

In the meantime, if you’re interested in purchasing flowers or supporting the project, please send an email to [email protected]

Thank you for your continued support! 🌸 Louise 💐

29/07/2024

PYO Saturday 3rd August is open for bookings!

Link to book is in our bio!

Hope to see you there!

28/07/2024

Hello you!
Teetering on the edge of the Zinnia crop starting ❤️

23/07/2024

The today has been partly about meeting lovely PYO customers and partly about the Tuesday crew starting the flower drying in earnest - the barn looks sooooo pretty now 😀

11/07/2024

School’s almost out for the summer! 📚🌻 Don’t forget to show your appreciation for teachers with our beautiful bouquet gifts or jam jar arrangements. Email [email protected] to place your order.

Our farm is bursting with a variety of gorgeous blooms like antirrhinum, cosmos, dahlia, and more. It’s never too late to bring some locally grown British flowers into your home. 🌸💐

08/07/2024

Beautiful flowers to say thank-you to some amazing class reps. We were delighted to provide these fab bouquets for an end of term celebration.

If you’d like to order one of our bouquets do drop us an email [email protected] prices start at £29.99 and these beauties pictured are our large pure flower bunches.

We are a community interest company, proceeds from sales go towards run the farm and our popular sessions.

06/07/2024

A few snaps from the most wonderful wedding we helped with flowers a few weeks ago, all the stems grown by us of course, and arrangements by

This is our ideal wedding, we grow the flowers and help with the tricky personal flowers like the bouquet and any specific arrangements you need, then add in some buckets of flowers for you to use on the tables keeping quality high and costs down.

Email [email protected] if you need some event or wedding flowers, we have space for maybe one more this year and then it’s 2025!

04/07/2024

Always a pleasure x

Thank you to Hydons Flowers for stopping by today and brightening up our reception area with these lovely cornflowers.
🌼🌸🪷

21/06/2024

Party flowers for delivered today! My car smelt amazing 😍 Can’t wait to see what gets created.

If you need flowers for an event we sell by the bucket and have artisan, high quality, blooms grown by us from seed. Email us the best way to get in touch with us.

Hydon’s Flowers is 90% volunteer run and non profit, so selling buckets goes directly back into paying for materials and helping us expand our horticultural wellbeing programs.

17/06/2024

Congratulations Tom and Chermain!

This is the perfect example of the type of wedding we do, artisan and natural, we helped with button holes, bouquet, aisle arrangements and provided buckets of flowers for bud vases and an arch. It’s DIY but we take the stress out of the tricky bits with our partner .

All flowers grown here, no air-miles, no pesticides.

Also we’re a community interest company so profits all go back into running our program for teens with and serving our community.

If you’re looking for help with your wedding or event and you like what you see, do drop us an email to [email protected]

09/06/2024

It’s nearly prom season 🙌🏻
Did you know our talented florist can use our wonderful British flowers to make these super sweet corsages, buttonholes also available.

Drop us an email [email protected] for more information x