Friday flowers… who’s for some rather lovely Autumnal colours? £10 bunch if you pick up from the barn. Friday flowers double bunch subscription and you get free delivery in East Clandon or Horsley. Go on, treat yourself….
The sunshine today will give us lots more tulips to pick, including this one, which has to be one of my favourites called Orca. Sometimes she’s a little short, but the rain this week has given her a fabulous stem length.
So how do you order a bunch of Orca? Or our Narcissus or bouquets? We don’t have the farmers market this year 😢, But you can order on the website, and come and collect from the farm on Friday am (10-1) or from my home address in Horsley Friday pm (usually 2pm onwards) or I deliver for a small fee in Horsley and Clandon. #fridayflowers #locallygrown #fresherthanfreddies
1st bouquet of the season for a friend’s birthday. Narcissus, Leucojum, Hellebore, Pittosporum and Rosemary. Less than 2 weeks until Mothering Sunday and we’ve ordered in tulips from @smithandmunson in Lincolnshire to go with our flowers and foliage, just in case the weather isn’t on our side for the next couple of days. Orders can be placed on the website. #grownnotflown #springblooms #flowersforfriends
If you know anyone who might want to find out more about locally grown Wedding or Event flowers for 2023/24, you can download our brochure from the website to give you an idea of prices and what we can offer.
These are the flowers we picked yesterday morning, and they’ll all be gone by 8.30 today, so i’m off to pick some more. If you’d like flowers for the weekend, please put in your orders, or we’ll see you Saturday am before it gets too hot @horsleymarket .
#grownnotflown #pickedbythegrower #surreyflowers
July selection with the first pick of some of the dried beauties. Some of these will be in our flower arrangers buckets in the morning, and there’s plenty more on the field if you want to pick your own #plasticfreejuly #seasonalflowers #growninsurrey
Fabulous flower harvest today, and the weather has been perfect for more coming out for Friday. The roses are also looking wonderful for Saturday morning’s flower club if you want to join us?
What’s available at Plantpassion this week and where can you get it from? This was the selection that went off with Dawn from @poppiespeonies in Horsell this afternoon, and Amanda @blakesofbookhamflowers has a similar selection if you are in Bookham. @solar.sisters.uk in Guildford have Jubilee posies and bunches including cornflowers and sweet williams, and Shelina at the Bishopsmead Post office had managed to sell 2 of the Jubilee posies before I got out of the door, bit has another bucketful on offer. I’m having a day off tomorrow, but i’ll be at the farm on Friday for a fully booked Pick your own, and to make any extra Friday flowers. We’re sold out of bunches this week, but can make market bouquets for delivery* or collection from the farm 10-1. #freshlypicked #locallygrownflowers #surreylife #Horsleyflorist #kt24
Wednesday orders picked, the field is looking lovely, and thanks for all your orders. My favourite scent this morning is the bearded iris. Now to split more Dahlias, plant more plants, and then a quick change so I can be presentable on camera this afternoon for filming for my intro for the Crest22 sustainability awards, which we’re finalists in ! #surreygrown #surreyhillsenterprises #britishflowers #sustainablebusiness
Just a few! Tulips picked this morning (about 400), and now off to @horsleyquaichcafe and this afternoon to @solar.sisters.uk . There’s plenty!! Left for tomorrow for Friday flowers and PYO and for flower club on Saturday morning 10-12. See you then
#freshlypicked #growninSurrey #tuliplove
The last of our rearranged weddings happens today. Thank you Abby and Matt for choosing such a lovely colour scheme. This is one of the table arrangements and I had great fun making it yesterday. #surreywedding #springflowers #sustainablefloristry
I do love a good experiment. 4000 tulip bulbs to go in today so we did a bit of a competition. Left hand bed 2000 planted a spit at a time. Righthand bed trenched, bulbs placed then covered/raked back over. Watch to the end to see who won, but only 5 mins in it. These will look amazing in April and there will be plenty available for Pick your own. #tuliplove #pickyourown #teamwork
Looking forward to a lovely Sunny evening with friends to celebrate the teens GCSE results. There are also plenty of blue, white and green flowers and foliage picked for this week’s wedding. So all is well with the world.
Happy New Year to you all, I hope you've had a lovely day. After ignoring the New Year midnight stuff, and going to bed early, I've had an amazingly productive day, with a long walk this morning, and lots of gardening this afternoon. The greenhouse is tidied and watered and any plants that won't make it chucked away. The Hellebore border has been weeded and the leaves cut back to show the buds waking up beneath them, and since the light faded I've been making all this Spring's workshops and Flower clubs live to book (do book a place if you're interested as that's will let me buy more new Dahlias!)
I’m so excited for this new Decade, because Over the last 7 years I’ve seen the potential for the British flowers market and sustainable floristry to grow and grow, along with my flower farm. Going into my 8th season now, I’m feeling like quite a grown up business. I’m organised with my financial plan and marketing plan already well started, and I’ve reviewed last season. From today I’m taking part in the #flowerfarmerama challenge, so today’s prompt is
What was my biggest success of 2019?
Well it was a really good year, especially for selling flowers really locally to me in Horsley and Clandon, but looking back through my photos for the last year, I love the fact that ALL the wedding flowers this year were grown by team #Plantpassion. From April-October, every event that we flowered had 100% #Surreygrown flowers. To me this is the biggest success, as I’ve now got the mix right, we’re growing the right flowers for our customers in the right colours and proportions. As we make our way into the Spring, I’m going to be concentrating hard on keeping that up, and ensuring our range is beautiful, fantastic quality and just what my customers want for their #weddingflowers.
