Outbloom flower farm (2025)

12/09/2025

Our final “Meet Outbloom” post: Looking Ahead to The Future 🌸✨

🗓As we wrap up this series, we want to share a little glimpse into what’s ahead for Outbloom!

For next year, we’re working on some exciting behind-the-scenes projects:
💚A new propagation tunnel to help us grow even more beautiful blooms
💙A lake for wildlife and water capture to support our sustainability goals

We’re also looking forward to adding some new flowers to our collection, including:
Butterfly Ranunculus 🦋 💮
Stocks 🪻
Vintage Carnations 🌿

It’s still early days for us, and we tend to take things one step at a time.
Honestly? Right now, our biggest plan is to survive and keep growing!
But we do know this — we want to be here for years to come, bringing you beautiful, joyful flowers that don’t cost the earth. 🌍💐

Thank you for being a part of our journey.
We can’t wait to continue sharing our blooms with you.
If you appreciate what we do please do help us to share the floral love by telling a friend or sending a bouquet. 📦💐

05/09/2025

Flower of the Month - September

Rudbeckia is a vibrant plant in the Daisy family. Native to North America with many species grown in gardens for their cheerful yellow, gold, orange and deep cherry red flower heads that bloom in mid to late summer. A dark, contrasting central cone gives rise to their familiar common names of coneflowers and black-eyed-susans. 🌻⚫️ 🌸 ❀

In Welsh Rudbeckia translates as Blodyn-pigwrn blewog - literally Hairy ankle flower! 🦶🏽 Can anyone shed any light on the story behind this name for us?

We grow both the annual and perennial versions. Our favourite at the moment is the perennial variety Rudbeckia subtomentosa 'Henry Eilers'. We love how weird its flowers are with their tubular petals. We are also fond of the annual varieties that come in a full array of sumptuous autumn colours.

The Rudbeckia symbolizes resilience, encouragement, and justice due to its hardiness and ability to thrive in tough conditions. It was traditionally used in Native American medicine to treat colds, infections and inflammation.

Uses: Low maintenance, Great for borders, wildflower gardens, cut flowers. Rudbeckia blooms look particularly glorious growing amongst delicate seed heads and nodding grasses in September.

Biodiversity: Rudbeckia plays an important role in ecosystems, attracting bees, butterflies, and birds 🐝🦋🐦🦇

If you'd like to have some of these bright blooms we'll be at Riverside Market, Cardiff this Sunday - come and see us there.

29/08/2025

Next in our “Meet Outbloom” series: our vision and the story behind our name 🌸

At Outbloom, our vision is simple: to bring people the joy of flowers while having a positive impact on our local environment.

There are three core things we focus on we believe can truly transform how flowers are grown:

1. Lowering the carbon cost of our flowers
2. Reducing plastic waste
3. Using regenerative farming practices that support a thriving ecosystem

If we can get these things right, we can offer something that feels just as good to give (or receive) as it does for the planet.

As for the name — Outbloom.

We wanted something a little bit flowery, and a little bit gay. 🌈

We liked Outbloom for its multiple interpretations:

⭐️To “outbloom” is to go above and beyond, to flourish, to stand out
⭐️And to be proudly and openly out — as an LGBT-owned and operated business

28/08/2025

Send a parcel of joy!

💐What brings more pure pleasure than receiving flowers from a friend or loved one?

📦 When they arrive as a surprise delivery from the postie — even better!

🌍And the cherry on top? Knowing that these flowers are grown and sent in a way that’s kind to the planet.

🌈Outbloom Flowers tick all these boxes and a whole lot more.

This is our first season of sending flowers by post, and it’s already bringing joy to people all across the country. From special birthdays and heartfelt thank yous, to moments of comfort or just saying "I love you" — our flowers are helping people connect when it matters most.

Outbloom flowers are freshly cut and lovingly arranged each morning on our little farm in West Wales. We carefully package them in a recyclable box with a compostable moisture pack, care instructions, and a sweet personalised gift card.

There’s zero plastic waste — just beautiful, thoughtful blooms delivered nationwide within 24 hours.

Simply choose a date and leave a message. Because sometimes, a simple gesture can mean the world.

See link in comments below.

17/08/2025

Continuing on the theme of sharing our story with you, a little bit about the land we grow on.

Around four years ago, myself and my partner Adam moved from London to these beautiful 14 acres in rural West Wales.

When we arrived, the land was mostly open field. Historically it was the parkland for the manor house in the Derry Ormond Estate. It nestles gently in a south facing valley, watched over by the iconic Derry Ormond Tower and bordered by the Nant Dyfel flowing down into the River Dulus.

The previous owners were very keen on sustainability (and brewing! 🍏🍺) and planted in total around 2 acres of orchard. We have around 60 fruit trees, the majority cider and cooking apples with some nice pears, plums and damson as well.

So far, we have created 47 flower beds, including several inside a 17m polytunnel. We only water in the polytunnel and that is done with a gravity fed drip system. We use as much collected rainwater as we can.

Every year has been different and the varying weather conditions have forced us to learn and adapt with some plants thriving in one season and not the next.

This is a place where wildlife is allowed to thrive. Wildflowers (some might call them weeds...) grow happily amongst the cultivated ones, bees and insects pollinate the blooms and birds sing and nest in the trees around. In midsummer the flowers are absolutely humming with insect life. We love watching the birds, like when the swallows arrive to nest in the barn. 🐝🦉🦋🪺

Next time we'll share more about the vision of Outbloom and where the name comes from. 💐

14/08/2025

To highlight what is in season, we've always wanted to showcase our "flower of the month". We'll start off with the most joyful of the blooms, the sunflower. It is at its peak of perfection this month and is a true diva of the flower world.

Not only do sunflowers resemble the sun, their faces also turn to follow the sun. They have their own biological clocks which help them to follow the sun during the day, and then move back to their original position at night. This “sun-chasing” behaviour is called heliotropism, and it’s most active while the flower heads are still growing.

Sunflowers bring joy and positivity, symbolising strength, good fortune, admiration, and
loyalty. They remind us of hope & optimism in difficult times through mythology & culture.

Many artists have depicted Sunflowers and none more famous than Van Gogh. He painted
them in the south of France, on large canvases with sunflowers in a vase, with three shades
of yellow ‘and nothing else’. Painting sunflowers had a special significance for Van Gogh
communicating gratitude.

In the garden, sunflowers are just as generous:

🐝 For pollinators – their wide, pollen-rich faces are like an all-you-can-eat buffet for bees.
🐦‍⬛ For wildlife – when the petals fade, the seed heads turn into ready-made bird feeders.
🌻 For other plants – their tall, sturdy stems can be trellises for sweet peas, beans, and other
climbers.

This year we're growing a range of colours including peach, cream, multicolour, and red on single and
branching stems.

09/08/2025

For those who don’t know the face behind Outbloom yet, hi it’s me, John 👋

Born in Florida, I grew up running wild in the woods where my love for growing plants began early. I was 10 when my dad built my first greenhouse and things have only escalated from there.

In 2015, I moved to the UK to work in Plant Science at Kew Gardens. While London life was ok, there was never enough space for plants. Balconies and allotments always filled up far too quickly.

That all changed with a move to Wales four years ago — where the land finally matched the vision. It was here that Outbloom was born: a flower farm rooted in purpose, creativity, and sustainability.

At the core of everything I do is a deep commitment to finding real solutions to the climate crisis. By growing local, seasonal flowers, I want to reshape the way flowers are cultivated and shared — making each bloom part of a bigger change.

03/07/2025

These gift bouquets and bunches going to are explosions of pure summer. Truly seasonal flowers that perfectly embody the season.

31/05/2025

We're coming to Cardiff! Come see us tomorrow at the Riverside market from 10:00 - 14:00. We'll be bringing along this absolute riot of glorious colours. Hope to see you there.

14/05/2025

The fruity summer colours are starting to come in now. We loved these fabulous snapdragons last year, and love them just as much this year.

These two bouquets went out to some lucky folks this morning.

If you want to get your hands on some you can:

🌼 Grab a bunch at New Medical Hall in Tregaron every Thursday
🌼 Come see us at the Aberaeron harbour view market this Saturday (May 17th)
🌼 Order online any time for local or nationwide delivery

07/05/2025

🏳️‍⚧️ Q***r joy picnic 🏳️‍🌈

There's a lot going on in the world right now that makes us sad and angry. This is especially true when thinking of our trans family. We wanted to do what we can to help our local q***r community in the best way we know: by throwing a big gay picnic on our flower farm.

It might not be much, but joy is transformative and we can provide a little bit of that. We get so much peace and joy from being around the flowers (and plenty of stress - let's be honest - but you won't have to worry about growing them!). We want to take this opportunity share that with folks who might not usually get the chance.

If this sounds like something that could do you good, please come along. We want this to be as accessible as possible, so we are offering a pay-what-you-can sliding scale starting from free. See all the details and sign up at https://outbloom.co.uk/products/q***r-joy-picnic

02/05/2025

💐 🚚 Now sending flowers nationwide 🚚 💐

Have you been wanting some of our flowers but don't live near the farm? Or have you wanted to send flowers to a loved one further afield? Well now you can! We are so excited to be able to spread the flowery goodness anywhere on mainland Britain.

Chose a date you want your flowers delivered up to a week in advance. We'll cut to order and send them via next-day currier so they get to you in tip-top shape.

Here's a few reasons to chose our flowers:

🌻 We grow interesting, beautiful varieties that you won't get from most delivery services. And get this, flowers that are meant to smell good actually smell good!
🌻 Our flowers are seasonal and regeneratively grown keeping our environmental impact light
🌻 All our packaging is recyclable or compostable. And because we grow everything ourselves, there is not extra single-use plastic involved

Order yours at https://outbloom.co.uk/products/gift-bouquet

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