Flitterbrook flower farm

08/09/2025

07/09/2025

Week 1.9.25 of flowers

Torrential rain and sunshine make for tricky picking conditions, but the flowers didn't seem to suffer, and we definitely needed it, just not quite so extreme.
I hope everything survived where you are.

This week, I've started sowing a few bits
Violas
Snapdragons
Colibri poppies
Next week, the first lot of stocks.

The kids go back to school on the 8th, and im itching to start clearing beds ready for planting out sweet rocket and foxgloves, feeling a bit behind this year, but they will catch up

A year without proper access has been hard, and im really hoping I can get manure in before it gets too wet, but hopefully, in the next month, I can get into the field again

31/08/2025

Week 25.8.25 of flowers

Its been a crazy week of brides coming out to the field to choose which flowers they want for next weeks weddings, is it just me, or is Sept the 6th a very busy day for weddings, ive had to turn florists and brides away as I just dont have enough flowers all in pastel tones, I hate saying no.
Also this week, lots of bouquets going out drying more flowers, weeding out beds ready for planting hardy annuals and ive double staked the dahlias, that wind and rain was quite strong and I dont want any casualties.
We are away for a few days in france before the kids go back to school and back in time for next weeks crazy.
Happy Sunday! Is it bedtime yet 😆

26/08/2025

A little late week of flowers 18.8.25

A massively busy week in flowers with lots of stems picked for on a huge wedding she did, it all looked amazing.
Bouquets and farm shop flowers off to and lots of picking for drying, which im hanging in the new workshop on nails used to hold the insulation in, as im waiting on plaster lol, making good of what ive got for now and it looks pretty.

Me and the kids have spent Friday to last night working and England's Medieval Festival which has been great so much fun and absolutely exhausting, ive got a pile of washing taller than me its 7am on Tuesday and im late, I need to be in the field picking and ive missed my flowers, quick cuppa and away I go, I will take a picture of my bodged drying area today.
Have a great week, guys

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17/08/2025

Week 11.8.2025 of flower's

This song lol reminds me of karaoke nights when my best friend would always drag me up to sing this song. It definitely makes me smile, as do all the flowers coming out of the field again.
I need to pick lots for drying for winter this week.
I've been pulling out and clearing beds and saving lots of seeds.
If anyone's interested in any seeds, ping me a message says seeds, and I can let you know what's available.

I can't believe we're halfway through the summer holidays now. it's exhausting I have no clue what day it is lol and the feeling of guilt having to work, but I do set a couple of days to do fun things or work early play all afternoon and I secretly would have them home always if I could so I can't really moan

Hope everyone has a good week ahead and is doing something fun, even if just for an hour

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11/08/2025

Week 4.8.25 of flowers

It's my birthday week, and what fun I've had, we went away to visit my uncle, who also had his birthday this week, up in the beautiful cotswolds but 3 days away and I miss my flowers, I can't wait to get in the field today.

Last week was my first proper pick of dahlias, so im expecting the field to be bursting this week, and the roses should be looking amazing also the China aster tunnel was about to explode when I left so im excited to get back

This week is set to be hot so lots of early mornings I think

Have a great week

03/08/2025

Week 28.7.25 of flowers

And the flowers are back, I have flapped over this week for a while now, and it seems we are all flapping, but do you know what, we've all got this.😉 😀
My dahlias gave me just enough flowers for this week's wedding, and everything went really well. There was lots of planning and juggling when growing flowers, things don't flower when you need them and crops fail, we also pick for diy brides make bouquets, pick for florists make up wedding flowers and look after and grow the flowers, not to mention having to pick it all at exactly the right time knowing which varieties work out of water, what to pick in bud its never ending and im always learning and always will be, I will also always be flapping on a weekly basis over something 😆

Happy flapping flower friends

26/07/2025

Week 21.7.25 of flowers

Firstly its rained and rained and rained and I love not being so hot, the grass is turning from brown to green, all those sad babies that just sat in the soil sulking, well not anymore they are bushing out and growing there happy little socks off.

This week ive needed help from some other growers to fulfil some big orders, im not ashamed to admit it or big up other growers, we should all big each other up, its not a competition, even if I had a massive farm there's still something another grower has in a different colour that I don't have or a failed crop that's grown amazingly for them, we are also mainly woman, mums, wives working mainly on our own, we work very hard for somthing we are very passionate about and I love chatting with my flower farmer friends, sharing seeds, plants advice and pleas for help, they make growing that little bit easier, it also means my customers get exactly what they've asked for which for me is key to my buisness.
I can also say that not a single thing is brought in. Everything is locally British grown.
So blow your fellow growers trumpets 😆

This week im bigging up


But there are many more that you will see i share most weeks.
Who will you big up ?





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20/07/2025

Week 14.7.25 of flowers

Happy Sunday! we've had some rain, and it's just about to rain again by the looks of it, at last.
Lots of jobs have been done this week. All the dahlias have had the bottom leaves stripped back to help with ventilation and mildew.
All the ranunculus corms have been sorted dusted in cinnamon as anti fungal and put into storage until autumn
Lots of planning for next years seeds. I need to be way more organised in case of a drought again, I need back up. I have a 2 week gap at the moment where flowers are slim, different factors not just the weather have affected me but its all a learning curve and even when you've been in the game nearly a decade there's always something to keep you on your toes.

Here's hoping the rain has pushed the next lot of flowers into action

13/07/2025

Week 7.7.25 of flowers

Early mornings, late evenings, makes the field look so beautiful.
This week, I've been saving lots of seeds, marking plants i want to save seed from, drying flowers, and I cut the grass with my super duper strimmer mower
I don't feel like I have half as many flowers as I did this time last year, and partly that's the weather, but partly that was my fault in planting out late, I couldn't be at the field as much as I needed to be and im paying for it now, but its on its way so watch this space

06/07/2025

Week 30.6.25 of flowers

And just like that, it's July, although it feels like August, everything is so dry. The grass is brown, and I feel like some things are definitely struggling.
Looking back over pictures from last week, you wouldn't know it, though, and the perennials are starting to come into their own. The dahlias are growing like mad loving this weather, the roses are nearly on their second flush, and there is still lots to come, even if some things have finished much earlier than last year it just means im drying for winter and collecting seeds earlier.
I'm definitely very thankful for the downpour last night.

How's everything looking in your gardens?

29/06/2025

Week 23.6 25

A week of firsts,
First wedding
First, wedding
First time working with , which was a total pleasure, and I loved having her with me.

Unfortunately, it's not the first year to be experiencing a drought, and flowers looking great on Monday are going to seed by Friday , even with irrigation it's not helping as I'm on clay and the water goes deep so lots of hand watering but it's not the same as a good downpour.
Still, if I got upset about the weather, pests, germination issues, and diseases that come with flower farming/ farming, I wouldn't be in this game, instead I look forward to what's to come and what is thriving and there's always next year 😀
It's a way of life that I couldn't, wouldn't be without.

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