Meadow At Moss Lane

Name: Meadow At Moss Lane
Address: Knutsford, GB
Telephone: +447834236682
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Rebecca Ellis 🌱 Flower Farmer and Floral Event Stylist 🌸 Mobberley, Cheshire 🌺
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14/10/2024

65 bunches and a gift bouquet for a corporate event. What a great way to thank your colleagues.

14/09/2024

Roses grown under this Cheshire sky.

That’s what makes my flowers different. They aren’t imported from another continent. They aren’t sprayed in pesticides and preservatives. They aren’t wrapped in plastic or stuck into a block of Oasis.

Grown simply, gently and seasonally.

08/09/2024

I’m excited to be part of The Farewell Flowers Directory, the number one place to search for natural funeral flowers.

The mission of is to:

🌿 offer a more gentle, personal approach to funeral flowers, an alternative to ‘the catalogue’

🌿 address the problem of plastic waste in funeral flowers (including floral foam)

🌿 create compostable funeral flowers that leave nothing behind

🌿 change perceptions of what funeral flowers can be

I will share more detail about arrangement design and style over the coming weeks, but if funeral flowers are something that you are currently looking for, please get in touch via DM, email or WhatsApp. Full details are on my website 💌

05/09/2024

Every year, I question whether to grow sweet peas, particularly as I try to move away from the annuals in favour of perennials. They’re a bit fiddly and I struggle to keep up with the picking, but I’ve just cut the last of the trails for a big corporate order this week and I’m not sure I want to be without their colour and scent. There’s nothing else like them.

02/09/2024

Farewell flowers.

I am open to enquiries about funeral flowers every day. I create farewell arrangements that are a bit different to the everyday, wildly beautiful and made with flowers from right here in Cheshire.

Please call, email, WhatsApp or DM to enquire.

02/09/2024

After a busy August, it feels calming to be back in the meadow, tidying the beds and planting out new perennials.

Walking amongst the roses yesterday reminded me why I love them - quietly producing an abundance of flowers, with minimal fuss or input from me. Quite the opposite to another plant I know….

26/07/2024

An arrange-your-own selection of flowers is a great alternative to a bouquet if you simply want some stems to brighten up your home, or prepare for a dinner party.

Available in three sizes, £25, £45 and £85.

Or order several to flower up your own wedding or baby shower.

23/07/2024

Late July and some new varieties are now here. Gaura Whirling Butterflies (an incredible perennial that produces flowers in its first year grown from seed), calendula Touch of Red Buff, and sanguisorba Korean Snow, which I actually saw everywhere at RHS Tatton. Sanguisorba seems to be having a moment … 💫

18/07/2024

Funeral flowers.

There is something particularly meaningful about funeral flowers that are connected in some way to the person that they were made for. Grown locally, under the same sky as where they lived their life, or even cut from their own garden.

I create funeral arrangements with a natural, garden style. The antithesis of the stiff, structured look that is commonplace. And of course, every design is sustainable, without any single-use floral foam.

For a more detailed conversation about funeral flowers, please get in touch via email or DM.

11/07/2024

Teacher gifts. Seasonal meadow flowers, gift wrapped with a vase. The perfect thank you 🌿

06/07/2024

Learn how to grow your own cutting garden from seed and fill your home with flowers.

We’ll cover which flowers to grow and why, sowing methods, tips and tricks I’ve discovered along the way and caring for your plants as they grow. Then you’ll have some hands on practical experience sowing seeds of your own to take home.

If the weather is fine, we might squeeze in a little tour of the meadow. And tea and cake of course.

You don’t need a big garden to find the workshop useful. Plenty can be grown on a small patch, or even in pots.

🌿 Friday 13th or Saturday 14th September
🌿 10-12.30
🌿 £40
🌿 Ideal for beginners
🌿 Email me or DM to book

06/06/2024

Cephalaria gigantea, or giant scabious. This is another one of those precious perennials that seems to be completely undamaged by pests and that means it’s definitely on my ‘to keep’ list. Lucky giant scabious 💛

24/05/2024

I’m struggling with a slug invasion at the moment. It’s really disheartening when entire crops vanish overnight after so much work.

This week I lay down several kilos of crushed whelk shells from around each dahlia to see if that helps. I’ll report back on my findings.

Have you used crushed shells before? Or do you have another failsafe method?

13/05/2024

Despite feeling a bit battered by the thunderstorms, anemones, alliums, sweet rocket and geums are still in full flower this week, with lots more on the way. 🌱

25/04/2024

The varieties of tulips we have grown this year have been absolute winners, particularly the double, peony-like shapes. I have already mentally drawn up our 2025 shopping list for later in the summer when the bulbs go on sale to make sure we continue to offer tulips you just won’t find on the high street.

That’s the thing with flower farming; there’s always the next crop to plan for, and the one after that too. The tulips have been at least seven months in the planning, growing, caring and harvesting before they reach you.

Thanks to everyone who chose to buy locally grown tulips this year, and if you haven’t yet, there’s still time to get your hands on the last few varieties flowering now.

11/04/2024

£10 bunches of tulips are available to order today, tomorrow and all weekend.

Varieties ready now are:
Pink peony
White peony
Apricot
Purple parrot

DM to reserve yours 🌷

12/02/2024

Our tulip crop for 2024 is well on its way and if you are looking for an alternative gift idea, or even as a spring pick me up for yourself, a tulip subscription might be the answer. 🌷

Subscriptions are available in 2, 3 or 4 week frequencies (one bunch per week) for £40, £60 or £80.

This year’s bulb selection is an elegant mix of whites, pinks and peaches in unusual peony, fringed and parrot varieties, a world apart from anything you’ll find in the supermarket. Scroll across to see the sort of stem length I’m taking about … 👀 ➡️

Subscription places are strictly limited. DM today to reserve yours. 💌

(Tulip season usually starts in mid-April. Flowers will be ready for collection from the Bloom Box in the meadow)

07/02/2024

I’ve had lots of fresh flower enquiries already this year, which I really appreciate, but thought it was important to clarify why I’m not able to fulfil orders just yet.

Growing my own flowers and being part of the British flower movement is really important to me. There is very little in flower in the UK right now because it is winter.

Some of my more experienced colleagues have lovely supplies of winter shrubs and hellebores, but being only three years into flower farming, the meadow isn’t established enough for that yet, although it’s getting there.

I decided not to buy in other British flowers for Valentine’s orders and instead use my time to prepare for the season ahead as best I can. Planning, seed sowing, field maintenance… there’s a lot to do.

I also won’t be using imported flowers. Locally grown flowers, in season, is my raison d’être and it just wouldn’t make sense…

No shade on those that do use imports, everyone needs to make a living, but transparency for the consumer is important. I’ve noticed a lot of greenwashing/opacity about the provenance of flowers which is frustrating. It undoes so much of the great work that’s been achieved in educating the public about the importance of British 🇬🇧

In the meantime, subscriptions and vouchers for flowers later in the year are definitely available. And thanks a million times for your patience and continued belief in the beauty of local 🌸

30/01/2024

In two days’ time, it will be St Brigid’s Day, also known as the Gaelic festival of Imbolc. It celebrates the midpoint between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox and the arrival of spring.

It definitely felt lighter on my walk today. The sky seemed higher, the sun was warm and the buds were shooting. Neighbours were fettling their gardens and I ventured into the greenhouse without a coat.

I hope you get to connect with nature in some way this week. Feel the sun on your face.

The potential and renewal of spring is just around the corner. 🌿🌱

19/01/2024

I grow completely in line with the seasons.

This means tulips in April, roses in June and dahlias in September. No red roses for Valentines here, sorry….

The flower farm is generally open April - October, weather dependent.

Part of the beauty of buying British is the anticipation that comes from waiting for each flower to come into bloom. There’s nothing special about something that is disposable all year round.

You can buy my flowers in several ways…

🌸 Gift bouquets and informal bunches

🌸 Buckets of loose stems to arrange yourself

🌸 Personalised subscriptions (at a frequency to suit you)

🌸 Wholesale for florists and floral designers

🌸 Pick your own

🌸 Funeral flowers

🌸 DIY weddings. I supply the flowers, you do the arranging (some ask me to prepare the bouquets and buttonholes too)

🌸 Workshops. I run dates throughout the year and also offer bespoke sessions for groups.

🌸 Full floral design and installation for a small number of special events throughout the season, such as weddings, parties and baby showers.

Bouquets, bunches and buckets can be ordered via my website (see the link in my bio). For everything else, I’m just a DM away…. 💌

09/01/2024

Who do I sell my flowers to…?

A large proportion of flowers are bought in gift bouquets and bunches by my local community. 💐

I sell wholesale to a group of local event florists who also care about using British. 🇬🇧

Wedding couples buy buckets and buckets of flowers so they can dress their venue themselves (sometimes I do the bouquets and buttonholes). ❤️

Families come to me if they are seeking meaningful funeral flowers when a loved one has passed. 🕊️

Regular flower-lovers buy my subscriptions for several weeks or months worth of fresh flowers in their homes (or as a gift for someone else). 🌸

And often groups of friends or mums and daughters come to me for a morning of mindful flower arranging and take home their creations. 🌷

How will you enjoy locally grown flowers this year?

04/01/2024

Apparently, I post a lot about flowers but nothing about myself and this doesn’t obey the golden rules of Instagram, or so I’m told.

So, a quick reminder of who I am 👋🏻

I’m Rebecca. I live in Mobberley, Cheshire, and grow cut flowers from our meadow behind the garden. 🌸

This year will be my fourth growing season, and it all began during lockdown when I realised I’d rather make a living from our land than in an office.

I’m from Essex originally, have a law degree and lived and worked in London, before moving to West Sussex and having our two children. We relocated to my husband’s home village of Mobberley (and his family home, in fact) in 2014, and now I wouldn’t live anywhere else.

None of my background has naturally led me to growing flowers, other than being fortunate enough to have a bit of land that was doing nothing, some time to reassess, and stumbling across a book called The Flower Farmer’s Year by . The rest is history.

My daughter asked me last night what my new year’s resolution is. I said that I didn’t have one, but actually I think it’s to try and be more visible on here. I despise having my photo taken but I’m going to attempt to be more zen about it. 🧘🏼‍♀️

They say that to really connect with your customers you need to share some of yourself and your story. Maybe, I’ll even share a VIDEO of me SPEAKING and everything before the end of the year 😳

23/11/2023

My take on a Christmas wreath, using honesty (grown here last year in fact which has been patiently hanging in my garage for 18 months) and nothing else, other than a wreath ring which is entirely reusable and some small lengths of wire.

Grown, dried and made in Mobberley. 🌟

Why be green when you could be silver 🤍🎄

17/10/2023

Last dahlias of the season featuring all my favourites, for my favourite girl Eliza 💗

16/10/2023

I haven’t felt much like posting about flowers the last week. World news has been too heavy to think about much else.

But on Saturday, my daughter and I went into the meadow to pick as many dahlias as we could before the frosts came over the weekend.

Most of them will be dried, but a special few went into a birthday arrangement for my darling girl who is 11 today ❤️

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Knutsford

Telephone

+447834236682

Website

https://meadowatmosslane.co.uk/

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Truly seasonal and genuinely local wedding flowers. Grown by me, in Mobberley, for a wedding a mile down the road. No chemicals, no pesticides, no artificial heat or light, no airmiles, no plastic packaging. Pure and simple 🌎💫

When people say they don’t like tulips…. They can’t possibly mean these ones 🧡💛❤️

A birthday bouquet for R last week, featuring antique cream roses called Champagne Moment 🥂

Bridal bouquets ready for the open day at Tatton Weddings at Stock Farm today. 👰‍♀️ One pinks, one whites, and one mauves. Which is your favourite? 💗🤍💜 Also, listen to that birdsong in my garden at 8am today. Can anyone tell me what bird it is? 🐦 *disclaimer: I didn’t grow all of these flowers. I endeavour to always use my own stems, but in January the pickings for a wedding fair are slim. Bouquets created in the UK growing season will always use stems from my meadow.