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Winter Wreaths// It’s started to feel colder this past week and more wintry. As our newsletter recipients know, our Pre-...
09/11/2024

Winter Wreaths//

It’s started to feel colder this past week and more wintry. As our newsletter recipients know, our Pre-order is open for Winter Wreaths and wreath kits. If you’d like a beautifully handmade, sustainable wreath for your door please book!

Thank you so much to everyone who has already ordered, and also to those booked for the sold out workshops at The Kitkgate.

In Ancient Greece wreaths were laid at funerals as an act of respect to symbolise eternal life.Enduring traditions like ...
06/11/2024

In Ancient Greece wreaths were laid at funerals as an act of respect to symbolise eternal life.

Enduring traditions like this have been adapted to fit their age; our wreaths are made using sustainable methods with sustainably grown British flowers to befit the challenges we face. This wreath is completely compostable and made with our own Cumbrian grown flowers - roses, dahlia, zinnia, rudbeckia. Is sustainable a compromise? We don’t think so.

Simply seasonal and sustainable. (And stunning?!)
05/11/2024

Simply seasonal and sustainable.

(And stunning?!)

About as spooky as I get…. Turns out my patience for Halloween really wains when it’s half term and the boys aren’t in s...
31/10/2024

About as spooky as I get….

Turns out my patience for Halloween really wains when it’s half term and the boys aren’t in school for the best part of the day. This grumpy mum doesn’t need a costume! 🧟‍♀️🤭

Anyway, I’ve taken myself off for a quiet half hour and filled a pumpkin with flowers. The orangey brown ones are from Lincolnshire, otherwise I picked everything from the field when I was walking the boys/dog earlier!

Not bad for the last day of October 🍂

Armfuls Of autumn 🎉
29/10/2024

Armfuls Of autumn 🎉

I read yesterday that a UN report has said that we’re heading towards a catastrophic temperature rise of 3.1c. Do you kn...
25/10/2024

I read yesterday that a UN report has said that we’re heading towards a catastrophic temperature rise of 3.1c.

Do you know what that means?

Photo: our sustainable floristry (zero carbon emissions, zero waste)

# Britishflowers #

Fancy crafting your own wedding day? Our DIY Wedding Buckets are popular throughout the year. Here is a Cumbrian selecti...
23/10/2024

Fancy crafting your own wedding day? Our DIY Wedding Buckets are popular throughout the year. Here is a Cumbrian selection, waiting patiently for their moment, in mid-October.

We’ve dates available next autumn, as well as some availability in spring and early summer but we’re looking busy for 2025 🎉

(Please remember: i don’t access messenger so please email enquiries!)

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We finished our 2025 Wedding Season at the weekend! 🎉 It’s been an excellent year for weddings, filled with gorgeous flo...
21/10/2024

We finished our 2025 Wedding Season at the weekend! 🎉 It’s been an excellent year for weddings, filled with gorgeous flowers, very lovely people and lots of colour. I am so thankful to everyone who booked their flowers with us, and chose seasonal, sustainable flowers 🎉🙌🙏

It was particularly pleasing to be supplying our last wedding, mid October, with 100% Cumbrian flowers, including dahlia, roses, chrysanthemum, asters, celosia, cosmos and limonium. Lots of autumnal varieties providing seasonal colour.

My head is already very much in next year, planting bulbs, sowing seeds, plotting and planning. We’ve got availability at the moment for 2025 and 2026 dates opens in January. But I am also looking forward to a few slower lazier weekends over the next few months too!

🌸🌞🌸

Btw/ We’re still open for for Gift Bouquets! Please pre-order, link in bio x

Chrysanthemum are one of my favourite crops, coming right at the end of the season when I’m usually hard pushed to have ...
19/10/2024

Chrysanthemum are one of my favourite crops, coming right at the end of the season when I’m usually hard pushed to have anything else. I adore their colours, shapes and the scent of their leaves is… well, it’s autumn in a sniff! Like all things their popularity goes in waves and some of these pretties are over used as cheap import, but for sustainable floristry they’re absolutely key to mid-late autumn, especially in the cold north! 🍂

It’s been a great year for bright weddings and L&B’s wedding at the end of September was spectacular! Simple ribbon bunt...
18/10/2024

It’s been a great year for bright weddings and L&B’s wedding at the end of September was spectacular! Simple ribbon bunting, that was made by the family, adorned the barn eves, railings and chairs to create a joyous setting for the wedding celebrations. It was a delight to be involved in this special day, providing table centers and a few key feature arrangements of our seasonal, sustainable flowers, as well as the personal flowers.

I love paler, softer palettes too, but I do hope 2025 brings us more of these bright weddings!

💕🙏🌞

Discovery// This time last week I was learning all about British flower farming in Lincolnshire. As I explained in July ...
17/10/2024

Discovery//

This time last week I was learning all about British flower farming in Lincolnshire. As I explained in July (blog in bio links) year-on-year British flowers are making up a higher proportion of the UK’s flower sales, so I wanted to see where these were grown. Small artisanal growers like mine may get a lot of media coverage, but it’s the ones I saw in Lincolnshire that are providing 99.9% of the blooms. And it was absolutely fascinating!

As you can see in the photos the scale is immense - 40 million tulips, 80,000 snaps…

We saw four crops; chrysanthemum, snaps, and ornamental cabbage grown in the ground, and hydroponically grown tulips.

Their environmental measures were impressive too - biomass heating (using locally sourced woodchip), rainwater harvesting, solar panels, and biological controls (using beneficial insects), as well as waste management and reusable transportation measures. It’s all been thought through.

As a family owned and run business, this farm employs 60 - 80 people, the majority working year-round on great pay.… (no volunteers! 🤭)

The risks and challenges are immense too, befitting of the scale of operation, as is the financial investment they’ve made.

As a 100% British flower business it was reassuring and inspirational. Sustainable floristry requires an eco-system of growers, and these guys are doing it all brilliantly.

I’m going to write up my experience as a blog, for those more interested, and I would encourage other growers and florists interested in British flowers to attend one of ‘s next Discovery Days.

It’s certainly filled my head and spurred on my research, and information gathering.

Thanks to Helen and Ian for such a great day.

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Hello Facebook! As you may know my personal account was hacked and suspended in July and I can only post on here via Cum...
15/10/2024

Hello Facebook! As you may know my personal account was hacked and suspended in July and I can only post on here via Cumberland Flower Farm instagram account! I can’t respond to comments, messages or tags etc. I’m sorry, it’s awful! But I can be contacted by email!

[email protected]

Or via instagram!

Thank you for all the love and support 🙏🌞🎉

Well this was a joy! Autumn is a great time for wild bouquets - the season for textural extravagance - and the colours a...
15/10/2024

Well this was a joy!

Autumn is a great time for wild bouquets - the season for textural extravagance - and the colours are wonderful. When this couple shared their palette preferences and asked for something “wild and unstructured” I did a little dance. Perfect for October! Perfect!

Thank you for trusting the process (because that was the sum total of their input) and choosing our seasonal, sustainable flowers N&G. Everything was grown by me here in west Cumbria. 100% Low carbon loveliness!

(The sneak peak professional photographs shared yesterday were epic btw - i shared them then! Such a fantastic wedding!) 💕🍂🌞

Love. At the heart of our orders is love. Marriage, death, friendship, thank yous. Flowers step in to say so much at imp...
11/10/2024

Love.

At the heart of our orders is love.

Marriage, death, friendship, thank yous. Flowers step in to say so much at important times of our lives.

That’s our mission: to provide our community of west Cumbria with flowers for life events that aren’t environmentally harmful.

And we love doing it. Growing. Arranging. Sharing. Enabling.

Love. Isn’t that the best basis on which to work?

💕❤️💕💕❤️

We’re busy sowing seeds, planting out and prepping ground for spring flowers. In the first photo you can see a tray of r...
09/10/2024

We’re busy sowing seeds, planting out and prepping ground for spring flowers.

In the first photo you can see a tray of recently germinated seedlings (grown from seed collected from this year’s plants), with bigger plants for next spring in the background. (And this year’s weeds 😉) There’s a staggering amount of work and experience required in order to have a continual succession of flowers from March to October and to ensure we grow ‘enough’.

Enough is, in my opinion the magic word to a sustainable business…. Not too little, not too much. (Both big problems in sustainable small scale flower growing! More on that another day!) We’re also limited in terms of capacity, with only two hands each and rigid values that mean we pay for all our labour. (No volunteers reducing our labour bill here) And we also have to earn an actual living. We’re not retired, loaded or daft…. Blunt but true 🤭

Why am I telling you this? Well if you’d like ethical, sustainable flowers for your spring wedding, like those pictured ➡️, we’d love to supply them, but we’d like to know asap in order for us to grow ‘enough’.

You can book online! (If the dates are not showing as available, please email) You can also download our 2024 Wedding Style Book there too! Please get in touch if you have questions. We’d love to flower your special day x

A dry, largely sunny week here in west Cumbria to start October, and at a much slower pace than we ended September. A fe...
06/10/2024

A dry, largely sunny week here in west Cumbria to start October, and at a much slower pace than we ended September.

A few things:

If you’ve not seen our newsletter - sent Friday - and are interested in winter wreath workshops please open it! (Look in your junk folder!) There was limited availability yesterday evening. Thank you to everyone who has booked! (More festive things will be announced next weekend, sign up to the newsletter to hear first).

Gift Bouquets are available. We’ve still got a beautiful selection of flowers and are taking bookings for the next couple of weeks. Email first if a specific date is important.

We’ve had a flurry of wedding bookings for next year - thank you! If you’re looking for spring flowers (March, April, May) please get booked in asap. We’re sowing and planting those flowers now…

Hope you’ve all had a great week, Harriet X

Natalie’s Bouquet // By late September it’s the season for these rich jewel shades; thank you Natalie for choosing them!...
04/10/2024

Natalie’s Bouquet //

By late September it’s the season for these rich jewel shades; thank you Natalie for choosing them!

I find small bouquets the hardest, due to the limitations of stems and scale, and wilder ones harder still, but this one worked… thanks to the grasses, I think!

All grown here in west Cumbria by us; dahlia, cosmos, roses, amaranth, celosia and some rather good grasses (amongst other things!) which we also provided in our DIY Buckets for decoration.

Congratulations Natalie and Sam, thank you for choosing our seasonal, sustainable flowers for your wedding 💕🍂🌞

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Autumn ButtonholesOr Seasonal Mini bouquets? 🍂✨💕
03/10/2024

Autumn Buttonholes

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Seasonal Mini bouquets?

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A shimmer // this bouquet for Sarah had gentle movement with the dainty feverfew, corncockle and jasmine softening the bright colours and giving it a meadowy vibe. It was a pleasure to make. Congratulations to Sarah and Andrew! 🎉🌸💕 #grownnotflown #cumbriaweddingflowers #weddingbouquet #bridalbouquet #cumbria #sustainablewedding #sustainableliving #sustainableflowers #britishflowers #farmflowers #slowflowers #flowerfarmerflorist #cockermouth #seasonalflowers #birdsong #seasonalweddingflowers #lakedistrictwedding #cumbriawedding #cumbriaflorist #inspiredbynature

Sold out - All gone I’m afraid, but I’m going to add a pre-order for bunches of peonies for next Friday / Saturday. I’m sorry that you may have missed out, but so thankful to everyone who order bouquets last week, and came to the Flower Stand for bunches. Thank you! Last night was magical (did you catch the Northern Lights?) but early this morning was pretty amazing too. Last touches for today’s wedding picked… Have a lovely weekend! ###

Peonies… theres a lull in harvesting in Lincolnshire where the weather has been bad. But when they do arrive they’ll be worth the wait! No Friday Flowers this week as a result though!! 🌸 (My peonies are still like marbles 😆) #seasonalflowers #britishflowers #cumbria #cockermouth #seasonalliving #grownnotflown

There are little signs of spring aren’t there? It does help doesn’t it?! Look for these little things today. If you do find this time of year tricky, planting snowdrops, winter flowering jasmine, witch hazel or viburnum bodnantense, or a hellebore to specifically flower now is a great way to help you through. Don’t underestimate seasonal nature connection! #cumberlandflowerfarm #Cumbrianflowers #natureconnection #winterflowers #seasonalliving #cumbria #Cockermouth #seasonalflowers #sustainableliving #sustainability #naturelovers #environmentdesign #cumbrialife #wintergarden

Happy Christmas! However you spend your Christmas time, I hope everyone finds some time for a little personal joy✨. And I’ll see you all again in 2024 for more beautifully natural, seasonal flowery loveliness. Thank you to everyone who has bought our flowers this year - it’s been a challenging year and yet your commitment to us and seasonal, sustainable flowers in more enthusiastic than ever, thank you so much. Thank you too for following our story on here, and in our newsletter, as all your likes and shares and kind words keep us going when it’s very muddy and not much fun. Thank you! I might try to do a 2023 review before the new year - something I like to do in readiness for a new calendar - but until then, ‘out of office’ is on and I’m Christmassing… Love to you all from our house to yours ### #happychristmas #christmas #outofoffice #flowerfarmer #flowerfarm #seasonsgreetings #cumbria #cockermouth #workington #westcumbria

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Cumberland Flower Farm is a smallholding located in West Cumbria between Cockermouth and Workington that specialises in bee friendly cut flowers for homes, events and businesses. We’ve grown flowers and veg on our allotments for 10 years, and sold our flowers since February 2018. After a lot of looking and negotiating we have finally secured some beautiful land on which to expand our cut flower production. With three acres of pasture and three acres of woodland located between Workington and Cockermouth we are so excited by the potential! By following our page you will be kept abreast of how our the farm develops, as well as when and where we’re selling our flowers.