Have you seen these before?! 😍👇
Amaranthus are one of my favourites for cut flower interest, perfect for hanging displays, or delicately draping over the edge of a vase of floral bouquet.
They’re so easy to grow too! These were direct sown into the ground, literally chucked in and left to do their own thing, and look at the result!
They come in three main colours, this deep red colour that you see here, a green which is great for foliage, and a biscuit colour… imagine that with a cafe au lait dahlia or those beige, apricot tones.
You can use them fresh or they can be dried too, simply place them in a warm, dry place out of direct sunlight, and let them hang upside down and drape naturally! They should dry in about 2 weeks. Perfect for those Autumn/Winter creations!
If you’re interested in learning more about the varieties that we grow here on the farm and our favourites for cut flowers, sign up to our mailing lists!whether you’re growing for pleasure, thinking of becoming a flower farmer, or one already who wants to learn more, we’ve got a regular email newsletter for you, packed full of loads more tips & blogs and ideas like this! Comment ‘NEWSLETTER’ below to sign up for free 🥰👇🏼
Is this helpful to know?! Do you love Amaranthus already?! Let me know what you think in the comments! 🥰👇
#amaranthus #cutflowers #cutflowerfarm #flowerfarm #cutflowergrower #flowerstagram #flowersofinstagram #gardening #gardeningtips
A huge milestone 🤩🤯👇🏼
I can’t believe it, 200,000 people follow me and my little British Flower Farm 🥰🌿
It’s absolute madness, but I have to say a big thank you for making this happen in one of the most challenging years for me. The fact that this can happen against all the odds, blows my mind and the kindness and love that you’ve shown has been astonishing.
It just shows the power of plants and growing and how that resonates with people all over the world. This time last year I had 15K followers, and now thanks to all of you getting involved, commenting and sharing, I’ve been able to work with more people than ever through my courses, memberships, online video masterclasses & 1-1s, and we’ve shared plant knowledge and tips to over 19million people in combined reach - How crazy is that?! 🤯🌿
And a huge thank you to @imtomcoleman for choosing to work with me over this past year on my social media - we’ve become a formidable dream team and the best of friends ❤️💪🏽
I’m so genuinely thankful for each and every one of you for being part of my journey, and being as flower mad as me - heres to more of that?! 🌹🌷🌼🍾🥂
#200k #followers #reach #flowers #cutflowers #flowerfarmer #flowerstagram #gardening #horticulture
Why we love giving hens a new life 🐓👇🏼
Not your usual Saturday morning job, but one we look forward to. We love @freshstart4hens who rescue chickens from battery farms, and find them new loving homes!
Commercially, all laying hens are slaughtered at the age of 72 weeks, when their production drops slightly. Their carcasses are worth very little and are usually sold for dog food, baby food or cheap, processed pies etc. @freshstart4hens work closely with British farmers and purchase the hens just before their slaughter date.
We love rehoming them and giving them a new free range life! They’ll still lay for years to come, and in just a few weeks their skin will heal and feathers will regrow and they’ll look good as new and be happier than they’ve ever been!
We’ll show you their progress over the next few weeks…
🚨 Controversial Post Alert 🚨
Hey everyone, I need your input on this! Imagine someone cancels a course with only 5 days’ notice. We all know it’s impossible to fill that spot, especially when we’re sold out. 😤
What would you do?
1️⃣ Refund completely
2️⃣ Refund half
3️⃣ No refund at all
I learned the hard way that having no terms and conditions for our farm courses was a big mistake. I’ve never needed them before, but it seems like it’s time to set some rules. Lesson learned! 📚
Let me know in the comments what you think! 👇
#FarmLife #LessonsLearned #RefundPolicy #HelpMeDecide #SmallBusinessDilemmas
The community for everyone who loves cut flowers 🌿👇🏼
Welcome to The Best Bunch. The membership community for everyone who loves cut flowers. 🌿🥰
On Tuesday, at the end of my free Cut Flower Festival workshops, I announced that I am relaunching the Best Bunch membership. It’s been a long running community now running into its third year, with over 200 members already loving it, but I knew I could make it even bigger and better, so me and the team have had our heads together to make it even more jam packed with growing tips, advice, expert sessions and discounts from some of the biggest horticultural retailers.
What’s in the Best Bunch community?👇🏼
Advice you can count on from real experts with years of experience for your personal questions, saving you time & money.
Monthly masterclasses with Roz Chandler and her expert team covering all elements of growing & flower farming.
A Community of likeminded flower mad people, learning and growing together and sharing their tips too!
Leading speakers from horticulture and floristry to further your understanding and development.
A resource centre packed with worksheets, guides, videos and e-books to help you learn & refine your growing skills.
Supplier discounts of UP TO 50% including:
Sarah Raven
Farmer Gracy
Kings Seeds
Harrod Horticultural
Niwaki Tools
Chysantheums Direct
Ladybird Plant Care
& so many more!! Even polytunnels!
If that sounds perfect for you, then it’s time to join The Best Bunch. Invest in something for YOU – Our Membership is a community for everyone to come together, collaborate, learn and share.
Comment ‘BUNCH’ below to find out more & join! 🌿🥰👇🏼
#bestbunch #membership #cutflowers #flowers #horticulture #gardening #growing #gardeningtips #advice #experts #learning
Hurry, not long left to register for free! 🤩👇🏼
This July, we’re holding a FREE cut flower festival! A series of online masterclasses covering everything from cutting & conditioning flowers, to arranging bridal bouquets, seed saving & loads more!
Do you love flowers? Join us for our highly anticipated Annual Cut Flower Festival! This is a perfect event for flower enthusiasts and anyone looking to learn more about the art of cut flowers.
What to Expect:
🌸Cutting and Conditioning Tips: Learn the best practices for cutting and conditioning your flowers to keep them fresh and beautiful.
🌸Hand-Tied Bouquet Workshop: Discover the secrets of creating stunning hand-tied bouquets, perfect as gifts or for sale.
🌸Expert Panel Q&A: Have burning questions about cut flowers? Our wonderful panel of experts is here to help!
🌸Seed Saving Guide: Confused about seed saving? We’ll provide a comprehensive guide to help you understand how, when, and what to save.
Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to deepen your knowledge and passion for cut flowers. Mark your calendar and invite your friends to join us for two evenings of floral delight on 22nd & 23rd July!
Comment ‘FESTIVAL’ below to get the link to register & join us for free 🤩👇🏼
#festival #cutflowerfestival #cutflowers #flowerarranging #flowerfarmer #florist #flowers #horticulture #gardening
Help us do it! 🤩👇🏼
We’re proud that our podcast is consistently in the top 0.25% of all podcasts in the whole world!! So to celebrate we’re releasing two bonus episodes this week, which were our two most popular previous episodes!
If you missed them last time or you want to listen again, then here’s your chance! There’s the fabulous @botanical_tales Bex Partridge giving the secrets to dried flowers, there are my expert tips to unlock the business of flower farming AND there’s this weeks brand new episode @gatehouse.florals Lisa Holt sharing her journey from teaching to flower farming! All out now! 🤩
By listening this week you’re helping us to climb the uk podcast charts - let’s see if we can reach a new record height on the charts together! 🤩🥰
Comment PODCAST below to get the link to listen to ‘the cut flower podcast’ 🤩👇🏼
#podcast #thecutflowerpodcast #cutflowers #flowers #flowerfarmer #gardening #horticulture
I changed my life and you can too!
🌸 Top 5 Tips for Becoming a Flower Farmer 🌸
📈 Set realistic earnings expectations. Write a business plan: what to sell, to whom, when, and at what price.
💼 Transition from full-time employment if needed. Test if you can make the same money as your day job. Give up one day at a time.
💪 Be prepared for a physically demanding job.
📊 Remember, flower farming is 40% product and 60% marketing.
🕰️ Ensure it fits your lifestyle. Have small children? Avoid weekend weddings. Take holidays in August? Plan accordingly.
##flowerfarmer #flowerfarmersyear #flowerfarmers #flowerfarming
If you love flowers, you won’t want to miss this!🤩👇🏼
This July, we’re holding a FREE cut flower festival! A series of online masterclasses covering everything from cutting & conditioning flowers, to arranging bridal bouquets, seed saving & loads more!
Do you love flowers? Join us for our highly anticipated Annual Cut Flower Festival! This is a perfect event for flower enthusiasts and anyone looking to learn more about the art of cut flowers.
What to Expect:
🌸Cutting and Conditioning Tips: Learn the best practices for cutting and conditioning your flowers to keep them fresh and beautiful.
🌸Hand-Tied Bouquet Workshop: Discover the secrets of creating stunning hand-tied bouquets, perfect as gifts or for sale.
🌸Expert Panel Q&A: Have burning questions about cut flowers? Our wonderful panel of experts is here to help!
🌸Seed Saving Guide: Confused about seed saving? We’ll provide a comprehensive guide to help you understand how, when, and what to save.
Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to deepen your knowledge and passion for cut flowers. Mark your calendar and invite your friends to join us for two evenings of floral delight on 22nd & 23rd July!
Comment ‘FESTIVAL’ below to get the link to register & join us for free 🤩👇🏼
#festival #cutflowerfestival #cutflowers #flowerarranging #flowerfarmer #florist #flowers #horticulture #gardening
It’s back for 2024 after selling out last year twice!! 🤩👇🏼
Join me here at the farm for a transformative two-day event focused on all aspects of running a successful flower farm.
This exclusive retreat, limited to a small number of participants, will be an event not to be missed for anyone interested in business learning and commerciality in the flower farming industry.
This Retreat is for you if you…
- Have a business already but you feel it lacks scale or profitability and need a helping hand
- you’re thinking of starting out and not sure on the viability, the numbers and how to make it all work.
Don’t worry, I have been there too. The Flower Farmers Business Retreat has been designed as the retreat of all retreats – a business in a box.
I want you to leave here energised and ready to grow your business. and don’t worry, I will hold you accountable as you develop on your journey within a business membership afterwards.
Our Flower Farmers Retreat for 2024 will take place this year on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd September and I’d love you to join this year’s dream team.
For more information & to book your spot, comment ‘RETREAT’ below👇🏼🥰🌿 Last few spaces remaining so don’t delay if you want to join us and make sure your business is booming! These retreat days always sell out 🤯
#flowerfarmersretreat #flowerfarmer #retreat #business #marketing #growth #sales #profit #flowers #cutflowers #florist #flowerfarming #horticulture
Here I am talking about free Facebook groups and overload as well as my book coming out soon - Free to anyone who wants it.
Follow me for more info when out.#breastcancerawareness #breastcancer #letsnailbreastcancer
Quick Update on My Cancer Journey
Three chemo sessions down, halfway there! As Catherine Middleton said, there are good and bad days. The hardest are days 2-5 days post-chemo, then 2.5 weeks off to recover.
I’ve met amazing people: reflexologists, massage therapists, hairdressers, and wig specialists. Losing my hair was tough, but my new wig is fantastic. Did anyone notice?
I’m still working and loving it. This week: two weddings, thousands of stems to London florists, Flower Friday subscriptions, a new polytunnel, sowing biennials, and planting dahlias. Our team is incredible!
A big shoutout to @wendyamansell for raising £2k for cancer charities.
We’re planning a Sustainable Florist Course (July 27), farm day (August), and Flower Farmers’ Retreat (September). Our Seed to Vase and Blooming Business courses are thriving!
I’m also writing a book, Be Careful Who You Listen To. It will be free, with donations to breast cancer charities.
If you want to work with me, comment “WORK WITH YOU” below. 💖
Whether you're a seasoned florist or a complete beginner, our one-day Sustainable Wedding Floristry course is the perfect way to hone your skills.
This is an in-person course, taking place at Field Gate Farm and we're offering an Early Bird booking discount of 10% - use the code EARLYBIRD when booking.
What the day will cover:
· Bridal Bouquets
· Buttonholes and Corsages
· Table Centres
· Pedestal and Churn Arrangements.
All the details and the link to book are here: https://fieldgateflowers.kartra.com/page/weddingfloristry
We’re having a blast putting together our subscription buckets today! If you’re local to MK16 and would love these delightful blooms delivered to your door, just comment BLOOMS NOW and I’ll send you a link.
Curious about what’s in season right now? Here’s some of them.
Lavender
Delphiniums
Larkspur
Echinacea
Roses
Nigella
Scabious
Sweet William
Gyp
Lady’s Mantle
Mint
Rosemary
All the foliage
Cosmos
Campanula
Stocks
Snapdragons
Sweet Peas
I’m sure I’ve missed a few, but that’s part of the fun! Would you like some of these beautiful, local, organic, and scented British blooms? Let us know!
It’s a whole year round thing🌷👇🏼
In the last few years we’ve become obsessed with Tulips here at @fieldgateflowers
We grow over 30,000 of them at the farm for cutting - we take them to London markets and provide florists with bountiful supplies throughout spring, and it really works for us! The more you do, the more scale you have and the more efficient it becomes!
It’s ended up being a year round obsession though. In spring of course we’re harvesting thousands of stems and taking them to markets, then in late Spring we went on a visit to Holland to visit our suppliers and the growers to see how they do it, get tips from them and see the latest hot varieties! It was incredible to witness and we learned so much!
We work with the teams there to choose the best varieties based on stem length, prolific flowering and popular colours, plus a variety of flowering periods to prolong the season.
Then right now, we take pre-orders on tulip bulbs to sell to the public & flower farmers - we keep them as close to wholesale prices as we can, to allow other flower farmers and growers to make their margins too and help others to grow - in every sense of the word 🌱
They ship out in Autumn, and so the team will be busy packing orders and sending out packages. And of course, the hard work starts as we dig big shallow trenches with the digger and then plant those 30,000 bulbs by hand so they’re all the right way up and ready to go. This year it took us until December to get them in due to the weather conditions, but they didn’t mind, and with a mild spring they were shooting up earlier than ever!
Who’s growing tulips on their patch or farm?! What’s your experience been with them? Feel free to ask any questions or advice! 👇🏼😍
#tulips #flowerfarmer #spring #tulipseason #flowers #gardening #horticulture
Why bigger does mean better 👇🏼
Ive had so many messages from people wanting to know when our tulip & spring bulb catalogue would be released and… it’s here!! 🤩
After our recent trip to Holland to learn even more about where our bulbs come from, which are the best, and to find some new incredible varieties, we’re really pleased to get this years bulbs on sale!
Most tulip bulbs that are available for ordering within the UK are unsized (aka small 9-10s) but these are 12+ bulbs, which means that they have a circumference of 12cm or more. They really are top quality, beautiful bulbs that I have hand-selected to cover the breadth of the tulip growing season, stem length and colour for cutting. And I’m offering them at the best possible prices so that for flower farmers, florists & growers in general can buy as many as they need without breaking the bank!
Comment ‘BIGBULBS’ below and I’ll send you the Spring bulb catalogue, which also features a selection of ranunculus & narcissi bulbs too 🤩👇🏼 For the first time it’s a digital catalogue/ shop too - so you can select what you want, add to basket and checkout! Then you can wait with smugness knowing that in Autumn I’ll deliver your bulbs, and you’ve got everything covered.
Comment ‘BIGBULBS’ below to order yours 👇🏼🌷
#tulips #springbulbs #tulipseason #orderbulbs #bulbs #gardening #horticulture #flowerfarmer #florist #flowers #cutflowers
