Floral and growing workshops
I offer a lovely wide range of floral workshops here in the studio on the flower farm. There is a mix of how to arrange sustainably or for your DIY wedding and also a mix of fun ones like arranging in a pumpkin 🎃 or making a witches broom along with great dried flower workshops.
However I’ve been asked quite often to provide some growing workshops so I have 2 on offer. One is the sell out Introduction to growing cut flowers - an intensive one day planning bed layouts, best tools, suppliers etc and the other running once a month for 7 months is a hands on gore along from March until September. It’s 3 hours a month where we talk through the theory and then go into the flower field and put it into practice and you will take something home each month be it seedlings, cuttings, flowers or saved seed. There is a comprehensive booklet containing a leaflet for each month for future reference to give you of the flower grower in your life the confidence to grow and tend flowers all year.
Now that the children are back to school why not treat yourself to some relaxing creative time with like minded flower lovers. Check the diary and pop a date in to treat someone to an experience and have something to look forward to for Christmas or the New Year. I can offer gift vouchers for workshops too. I look forward to having some floral fun with you.
To book on go to my website (link at the top of my page) and to the experiences page where you can take a look at the different workshops and dates. Thank you, Rozanne
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Today’s wedding was at Bosbury church. A gorgeous mix of pale pastel pinks, creams, blues and lilacs. The bride’s favourite flowers are ammi and hops which we sourced locally. They were dried from last season as it’s a little early for them at the moment however the vibrant hop green was reflected in the bells of Ireland and orache foliage. There were 5 bridesmaids bouquets all similar to the brides but without the queen of Sweden and iceberg roses. The button holes were rose buds with eryngium, scabious and orache.
Outside the church was a broken arch which was moved back to the marquee and the church was filled with church flower ladies arrangements using flowers provided in buckets. The reredos frame had dried hops with fresh ammi floating out from within it. At the alter were two milk churns that were also taken back to the marquee where the bride and her family had arranged table flowers in bud vases ready for the wedding breakfast prepared by @a2zestevents.
They’ve had a beautiful day to celebrate and I look forward to seeing @davidliebstphotography photos of the day.
#augustwedding
#grownnotflown
#seasonalflowers
#driedflowers
#ledbury
#bosbury
#herefordshirecountrylife
#worcestershirewedding
Thank you to @junofloristry for helping at the church
Hops were from @my_farmcottage
Cheers 🥂 🍸
A little light hearted humour for a Sunday evening.
I was laughing with Olly my son about some of the conversations I have about my job as a flower grower.
Last week I was told by a friendly agronomist over the field fence how pretty the garden is - I did smile and say the garden is around the front of the house but yes the flower beds look good.
“What a wonderful relaxing job”
“I’d love to work with flowers” etc
All lovely and friendly comments - and it’s true I do love working with flowers and some aspects can be very therapeutic- when there isn’t a time pressure or a need for everyone of those seedlings to make it through to flowering for someone’s special event.
So Olly and I went out this evening to create this reel for you- the gin has now gone to my head and I do actually have to go and accurately predict what will be looking fabulous for florists who wish to buy seasonal flowers from @theflowerhubatpauntley.
There will be measuring for stem length, squeezing of peony buds and lots of counting. They will be picked on Wednesday early in the morning and conditioned then delivered in the evening ready for collection by florists on Thursday morning.
However I can do pick you own flowers if you would like to come and spend some time picking flowers and if it’s a sunny evening you are welcome to bring some gin! (& a driver)
#localflowers
#seasonalflowers
#pickyourown
#ledbury
#gin
#goldenhour
#herefordshirecountrylife
#freshflowers
#rossonwye
#malvern
What a lovely weekend
Last summer I had a mum and daughter come to a ‘create your own wedding flowers’ workshop. This weekend they collected some buckets of flowers to make bouquets, button holes and table flowers in the cool of the garage @hommehouse and I created an arrangement in the large urn at the bottom of the stairs.
I also created 12 very sweet button holes with Lilly of the valley for another local wedding.
Then Sunday and bank holiday Monday I was @courtfarmbarn for the @big_apple_herefordshire blossom celebrations. It was a pleasure to chat to lots of people about what I do, to meet some other fantastic small businesses and to give a small talk on how to create a button hole with people then wearing them afterwards as they enjoyed their walks through the orchards or tractor rides and lunches provided by @ledburyyfc.
To top it all off the sun shone ☀️
Happy Easter everyone
I’ve been quite busy posting photos of wedding or farewell flowers recently and not anything that is happening on the flower farm.
While many of the beds are still empty or stiring from their natural dormant state there are flowers and it’s a really busy time.
The amount of rain that we have been having and that is still forecast in the next week or two is causing a bit of a bottle neck with the planting out of young plants and delaying some sowing as I try to manage space. I’ve another table to set up in the greenhouse to place seedlings on and the kittens and Welly are going to have to have their beds moved from prime sunbathing spots!!
I’ve managed to get some beds weeded and prepared ready to plant into. The tulips and daffodils have been great this year, lovely long strong stems on the tulips with large flower heads. The daffodils have had a little slug damage but they have also been great and I still have some really beautiful double varieties to come.
The anemones are coming through despite the greenhouse having flooded a few times and in the tunnels the sweet peas are climbing their frame and the wall flowers smell wonderful.
Wedding season is well underway with a busy cluster of them over Easter. A days growing though is always very calming and enjoyable with the bird song and Welly or the kittens near by.
The greenhouse is fit to burst - I’ve never grown so many seedlings so the flower beds will be overflowing with blooms this year and I can’t wait to share it all with you.
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#flowersfromthefarm
#localflowers
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#ecofriendly
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#rossonwye
A January wedding bouquet
Two weeks ago I was asked if I could make a small bridal bouquet and 4 button holes. This bouquet may be petite but wow does it pack a punch scent wise.
The miniature daffodils and small white tulips were British bought in flowers and the rest I picked at from the flower farm.
Very early hellebores in dusky pinks with spires of winter Heather and the heady scent of clumps of viburnum davidii were complimented with eucalyptus parvi folia and gunni with some variegated ivy. I also used some Christmas box with its glossy green leaves and again the smallest dainty white flowers that smell so delicate.
Winter flowers may not be big and showy like the summer blooms but they really make up for it with their perfume.
The happy couple were married in Ledbury and then had their wedding breakfast in the @feathersledbury afterwards.
#ledbury
#januarybridalbouquet
#britishblooms
#grownnotflown
#weddingflowers
#herefordshire #farmerflorist
#sustainableflowers
#seasonalflowers
A beautiful September wedding, adorned with hops, dahlias and the first chrysanthemums with clouds of delicate Michaelmas Daisies
June has British flowers week and 3 weddings for me as well as the above events that you can come and join in with. Blooming lovely 🥰 🌸 🌹 the link for tickets can be found on my website and in the link at the top of my home Instagram page.
Here is a quick look at the flower farm on an early June evening
This is what my ‘buckets’ of flowers look like. They are carefully curated to your chosen colour palette and are conditioned and ready for you to arrange. There are 80 stems in a bucket so they offen don’t fit into one physical bucket and they will make 2 or 3 larger arrangements or about 8 jam jars depending on what you plan to do with them.
‘Who keeps me company?’
My loyal companion always by my side either busy rummaging about or sleeping in the sunshine is Welly our little Jack Russel. This year he has been joined by a rather boisterous Lulu who is now 8 months old. Mittens our lovely cat is now 11.
This year I also have 3 honey bee hives on site. Despite them containing thousands of bees what has surprised me is that most of the bees I see are bumble varieties.
I don’t use any sprays or chemicals and so I have a wonderful balance of pest and predators, the only interference that I make is to squash a few greenfly before the predator populations get high enough in spring.
The best thing is the early morning picking with the sunrise and bird song and the sun sets as the birds go to bed. I love it.
🌱 saving seeds for next years seedlings 🌱
Today I have collected lots of seeds. A lot of seeds such as poppy and nigella are also really easy to collect.
Make sure that you label them and collect when they are dry. I like to collect my own seed because I know that the parent plant did well in my growing conditions and it saves a little money and the delivery and therefore helps to make my flowers a little more sustainable. Here is how I collected larkspur this morning and some snap dragons and sweet peas. The goldfinches have beaten me to the cornflowers but there are plenty to share.
The month has flown by. Here are some of the flowers we’ve enjoyed in July
Do the hot weather at the moment I’m picking early morning and late evening. It’s the two best times of day though, the birds are singing away and the low sun is so pretty through the flowers.
This weeks posy was hi jacked before I had finished arranging it by this lovely bumblebee 🐝. He seems to know that he can dive straight in as I use no chemicals on my flowers so you can do the same, those scented stocks smell amazing. New this week is quaking oat grass and soon going over is the lime green viburnum. Send me a message or give me a call if you would like some.
#seasonalflowers
#bumblebee
#nochemicals
16 April, early morning bird song
