The Ledbury Flower Farmer

13/09/2025

✨ WIN a £150 Flower Farmer’s Hamper! ✨

We’re giving away a gorgeous hamper packed with gifts and tools every flower farmer will love – worth £150! 🎁 From handy tools to little luxuries, it’s the perfect treat for anyone who loves growing cut flowers.

The hamper contains:
🌸 Niwaki hori hori
🌸 Niwaki floristry snips
🌸 Monty Don ‘The Complete Gardener’
🌸 Apron with ‘Seed to Sales’ logo
🌸 Nutscene British twine
🌸 Farmers' Welsh Lavender handcream
🌸 Flower farm floral notelets

All you need to do is tell us in the comments why you would like to win this hamper or who you would gift it to!!

💌 Don’t forget to follow our page to see the results announced on the 15th September

📅 Don’t miss your chance to win - Comment by midnight on the 13th September TOMORROW.

T&Cs
✂️ Open to anyone over the age of 18
🏆Entries will be picked from the comments at random using an online generator on the 14th September.
📣 We will announce winners the next day.
👩🏻‍🌾 Not open to employees or family of Wye Valley Flowers or The Ledbury Flower Farmer (sorry!)
💰There is no cash alternative to this prize
❗️Facebook does not sponsor the competition

For more information about our Seed to Sales mentoring program for cut flower businesses, please check out our website www.seedtosales.co.uk or book one of the last places at https://buytickets.at/seedtosales/1637206

Seed to Sales - A year of coaching and mentoring for cut flower businesses – Wye Valley Flowers, Thu 11 Sep 2025 - We are delighted to offer a year of coaching and mentoring for Cut flower growers, whatever stage your business is at. Jo and Rozanne have over a decade of combined experience in th....

07/09/2025

Last week saw some gorgeous colour palettes leave the flower farm.

There were soft blues and whites, zesty sunflower yellows and all of the warm sunset oranges and corals for weddings.

(I don’t have a minimum spend- the sunflower wedding was a bouquet and button hole, the corals and oranges was just those buckets for the bride to arrange and the blues and whites had bride and bridesmaids bouquets, button holes, corsages and some to attach to the collar of a much loved pooch with buckets to be arranged for the tables).

Also soft peach and pinks for the subscription deliveries that are once a fortnight and some gift bouquets too.

This weekend has been the first part of . It was been lovely to welcome people into the studio to see floral mosaics by Jo and calligraphy and pressed flowers -many grown here by Sian. We are open all week and next weekend with tea & cake too. You can join one of our workshops or just have a browse and a wander of the flower beds. We look forward to seeing you, we are open every day 11-5.

04/09/2025

I have updated the link to my floral workshops and added the Christmas wreaths- I know I know!!

If you feel that’s a little too soon you can have a look for some of the earlier dried flower workshops that are available to come and make dried flower wreaths, meadows and panels - also a flower cloud. All using flowers grown and dried here on the flower farm this summer.

There are also some fun October workshops including making a witches broomstick. If you would like to grow your own flowers then drop me a message and I can send a link for some one day growing workshops and also a link for a mentoring one.

But if you would like to bring the outside in and have some relaxing floral fun at the same time then take a look at the link for floral experiences on my website.

https://buytickets.at/theledburyflowerfarmer

03/09/2025

✨ WIN a £150 Flower Farmer’s Hamper! ✨

We’re giving away a gorgeous hamper packed with gifts and tools every flower farmer will love – worth £150! 🎁 From handy tools to little luxuries, it’s the perfect treat for anyone who loves growing cut flowers.

The hamper contains:
🌸 Niwaki hori hori
🌸 Niwaki floristry snips
🌸 Monty Don ‘The Complete Gardener’
🌸 Apron with ‘Seed to Sales’ logo
🌸 Nutscene British twine
🌸 Farmers' Welsh Lavender handcream
🌸 Flower farm floral notelets

All you need to do is tell us in the comments why you would like to win this hamper or who you would gift it to!!

💌 Don’t forget to follow our page to see the results announced on the 15th September

📅 Don’t miss your chance to win - Comment by midnight on the 13th September.

T&Cs
✂️ Open to anyone over the age of 18
🏆Entries will be picked from the comments at random using an online generator on the 14th September.
📣 We will announce winners the next day.
👩🏻‍🌾 Not open to employees or family of Wye Valley Flowers or The Ledbury Flower Farmer (sorry!)
💰There is no cash alternative to this prize
❗️Facebook does not sponsor the competition

For more information about our Seed to Sales mentoring program for cut flower businesses, please check out our website www.seedtosales.co.uk or book one of the last places at https://buytickets.at/seedtosales/1637206

02/09/2025

The first day of September, the start of autumn and if you look carefully there are a few self sown seedlings appearing.

This is the perfect time to be starting to sow seeds for next year for slightly earlier blooms.

Although I still have flowers and I’m loving sharing them with you that autumn itch is too much and I’ve started clearing beds. It’s been a very difficult year with the drought and heat. The flowers have worked hard, we’ve fulfilled all orders and still have weddings through September to flower.

Some as you will see have been incredibly short and have been left for the birds and bees - I do always grow more than I need to allow for deer, drought or whatever may make them not quite meet the grade for sale.

So today I have cleared and saved some more seed, I’ve also sprinkled some seed to grow at their own pace and I will be starting to sow this week in the green house ready for next years blooms.

In the meantime there are still gorgeous flowers and if you want to come and see the autumn and winter work in action you can come and have a wander around next week for H art week when I’ll have 2 artists here on site with their work too. We will have tea and cake and you can purchase their art work, dried flowers or pyo fresh flowers.

24/08/2025

Thank you to everyone who came to my National Garden Scheme open weekend.

Together we have raised £2170.20, I’m absolutely thrilled thank you. The NGS support some great charities. 412 people came - I lost count of the number of cakes I baked and you all picked lots of seeds to hopefully grow your own flowers.

Thank you to the kind souls who helped the day run so smoothly and to Sam Webb for the photos.

11/08/2025

H Art week is Saturday 6th September to Sunday 14th September and this year The Ledbury Flower Farmer is a venue hosting floral themed artists.

You can come and wander the flower farm and enjoy tea/coffee and cake while admiring the creations of Jo from and pressed flowers and calligraphy by Sian .

There are workshops each day that you can join in with ranging from £5 to £50 with artwork pieces to purchase. Please book for the workshops via our websites- a list of them is below.

Look out for the pink signs on the roadside and we look forward to welcoming you.

Our workshops are
PYO flowers every afternoon except Friday £1 stem, or £30 snips are provided - please bring a water tight vessel to take your flowers home in

Sunday 7th 11-11.30 make a button hole

Monday 10.30-12.30 introduction to modern calligraphy & pressed flowers

Tuesday 1-3pm make a flower crown with flowers that dry

Wednesday 10.30-12.30 introduction to pressed flowers - create an initial

Thursday 10-1pm learn to mosaic, create a tile to take home

Saturday 10.30-12.30 create a wreath made of locally grown hops to dry and hang in your home

Sunday 10-1pm learn to mosaic, create a tile to take home

To book flower farm workshops floor the link below.

https://buytickets.at/theledburyflowerfarmer

03/08/2025

A welcome break between weddings has meant that I have been busy harvesting flowers to dry - a perfect job for August as mentioned in article by this month.

I have picked over 800 today in a mixture of colours and hung them to dry in the studio ready for dried flower creative workshops this autumn and winter to bring summer colour into our homes.

I have stripped the leaves off and hung them to dry to be used for wreath work. I have also wired some that I need in September for a special bridal bouquet and button holes.

Once dried in a few weeks they will be carefully stored away until needed for floral workshops.

https://buytickets.at/theledburyflowerfarmer

28/07/2025

The flower farm will be open this year for the National Garden Scheme on Saturday and Sunday 23/24 August from 11am to 4pm.

You can wander the flower beds and sit and enjoy the view. I will have tea and cake too- the perfect day out!

There will be a card machine for the entry but please do bring cash for tea and cakes- also if you wish to do some pick your own or to buy a small bunch of flowers.

There is a guided tour which you can book with the link on my website for Saturday morning before the gates open or you can enjoy a self guided look around over the weekend. There will be a sustainably arranged arch over the big metal gates and another arch plus some urns and milk churns- if you would like to learn how to arrange in them I have a workshop to create them on the Friday (Aug 22)- link in bio for workshops.

https://buytickets.at/theledburyflowerfarmer

I look forward to seeing you and sharing the flower farm and garden with you.

23/07/2025

Question! How many opportunities do you have to sell each stem? If you don’t cut it for a retail bouquet, maybe you could use it for a wedding or dry it to use on an autumn wreath. What else?

To find out more routes to market and opportunities to sell your beautiful flowers, check out our year of mentoring and coaching the flower businesses starting in September. 

https://buytickets.at/seedtosales/1637206