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Wivenhoe Flowers Flower farmer and florist supplying locally grown, seasonal blooms from April - October

31/01/2025

There’s a lot happening behind the scenes at the field at the moment, and it’s muddy work! I’m clearing and mulching beds ready for planting in spring, and preparing the polytunnel for seed sowing which starts properly in February. I found this little self-seeded wild rose when I was weeding this week. I couldn’t bear to dig it up, because I’m soft I’ll probably move it to the hedge where it can grow away to its hearts content.

29/01/2025

This year I’m offering a four seasons bouquet subscription, for four luxury gift bouquets across the year. Each one will bring seasonal, scented beauty from my flower field into the recipient’s home, wrapped as always in compostable packaging. My four seasons bouquets are available with delivery within 5 miles of Colchester.

28/01/2025

2025 flower subscription availability (for anyone thinking about the perfect Valentine or Mothers’ Day gift…)
🌸Fortnightly jam jar posies - good availability for collection, limited for delivery
🌸Monthly jam jar posies - good availability for collection and delivery
🌸Fortnightly bunches - good availability for collection, limited for delivery
🌸Monthly bunches - good availability for collection, limited for delivery

All are available on my website. My subscriptions of flowers direct from my field run from April until September, and delivery is available within 5 miles of Colchester (or collection from my flower hut in Wivenhoe). I can send a beautiful card if you’re planning on giving a subscription as a present (and, if I might make a suggestion, a jam jar posy subscription plus a posy vase from or or .harveyceramics would be a SENSATIONAL gift)

I also have a four seasons bouquet subscription available, more on that tomorrow…
Photo by .branthwaite

24/01/2025

Three more things I’ll be growing loads of in 2025 because they’re in such hot demand. Florists, DM me to be added to my wholesale email list for 2025 so you can get your hands on these beauties. First up, the star of autumnal colour schemes, the incredible rudbeckia Sahara. Flowering from August, each plant gives a different interpretation of the colour scheme. And following in their footsteps right at the end of the season, chrysanthemums which flower all the way into November and give not only autumnal colours but also pastels and jewel tones. And finally, in May (should have put this one first I suppose), I’ve got loads of these sweet geums which are just gorgeous for posies and table flowers.

20/01/2025

To beat the January blues, two of my favourite blue flowers - cornflowers (of course!) and blue sweet peas which are even more beautiful in real life. I can’t wait to be pulling together these gorgeous combinations for flower subscriptions this year. There are a few slots remaining for subscriptions over on my website if you’d like to treat yourself or a loved one (ps it would make a fabulous Valentine gift if your love lives within 5 miles of Colchester…)

19/01/2025

I’m allowing myself a bit of Spring daydreaming. I planted a lot of new narcissi bulbs last year which are starting to pop up, so I’ll have plenty of these for Mother’s Day this year. I think a giant bunch of these scented beauties knocks the spots off out-of-season roses any day.

13/01/2025

My calendar has been filling up with gorgeous wedding orders for this year, each totally different. I offer bouquets and buttonholes, ceremony arrangements and table flowers which you have the option to order either as ‘click and collect’ flowers or delivered and styled by me, and I also offer curated buckets of DIY flowers, to complement your bouquets and buttonholes, or to do all the floristry yourself.
For intimate weddings involving just bouquets and buttonholes or just a bucket or two of flowers, I can usually squeeze you in (and I adore a spontaneous wedding), but for larger orders, here is my availability:
April - fully booked
May - fully booked
June - available
July - limited availability (early/mid July)
August - limited availability (mid August)
September - limited availability (early September)
October - limited availability (late October)

If you’d like to know more about my seasonal, sustainable wedding flowers for your North Essex or Suffolk wedding, drop me a line!

05/01/2025

A couple of my favourite bridal bouquets from the archives, because we’re due a bit of summery dreaming on this super dreary day. I’m spending rainy days making a start on colour palettes for my 2025 weddings, they are all so different!

31/12/2024

And finally - September to December. Looking back, I can’t believe how much I crammed in (and I can see why I’m a wee bit tired). I hosted a seasonal cut flower workshop with (stay tuned for more next year!), and my Harvesting Happiness course welcomed a new group to start sowing for the 2025 season. I planted three new gigantic narcissi trenches as well as many, many other spring bulbs. November was filled with epic chrysanthemums, and at the end of the month I hosted my first wreath workshop at . Finally, I made some gorgeous Christmas door swags before collapsing in a heap. What a year!

30/12/2024

2024 in review - June to August. Summer began bountifully, and I enjoyed the most surreal day at the field ever when styled a gorgeous three-course lunch among the flowers. In July, I spent a brilliant day with alumni and had my busiest week ever which included these wild and unruly arrangements at
August was overshadowed by the rubbishness of this season’s dahlias, the usual late summer abundance was a no-show, but on the plus side it rained so much that I didn’t have to spend any time watering…

29/12/2024

2024 for Wivenhoe Flowers - March to May, aka the Pest Apocalypse. The flower season kept me on my toes this year, with the tulips flowering weeks earlier than usual, but mainly I was battling the slugs who ate all my larkspur, and the mice who ate all my anemones. Three brilliant things also happened: joined me as my Wednesday right hand woman, and I’ve loved working with her all year; my Harvesting Happiness group and I planted out our first seedlings; and I travelled to Birmingham to learn sustainable funeral floristry techniques with which ignited a massive love for farewell flowers. Come back tomorrow for the good, the bad and the ugly of Summer 2024!

26/12/2024

If you’re planning 2025 or 2026 North Essex/Suffolk wedding, and want it filled with relaxed, beautiful, planet-friendly flowers, you’ve found the right place. The gorgeous Ellie chose these meadow-inspired bouquets for her wedding in early summer, and created beautiful arrangements for her venue with my DIY flowers too.

Photos by
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18/12/2024

Last call for subscription flowers for Christmas gifts, so that I can deliver a beautiful gift card for you to put under the tree. Over on my website you can choose monthly, fortnightly or four-season flowers in three sizes, and subscriptions can be ordered for collection from Wivenhoe or delivery within 5 miles of Colchester. All my subscription flowers are grown on my flower field, and delivered in compostable packaging. If you have any questions, give me a shout!

Photos by the wonderful .branthwaite

16/12/2024

Of course a huge order of bare root plants arrived the week before Christmas, so cleaning my house had to wait - again - whilst I raced get them in the ground or potted up before school pickup. It pleased me to plant the roses by theme - there’s a row of edible names (Sweet Honey, Hot Chocolate and Polo) and a row of royal ones (Queen Elizabeth and Albertine). Some of the other bare roots were particularly tricky working out which way was up.

11/12/2024

The last swag of the year, delivered this morning to the wonderful
Now it’s time to see what odds and ends I have left to make something for my own front door!

09/12/2024

Three beautiful dried flower wreaths available now, priced at a Christmas miracle £20 each. Let me know if you’d like one, I need to get these to new homes before my kittens find and destroy them! I can deliver these in Wivenhoe, or let me know if you’d like to arrange delivery further afield. I also have some of my gorgeous bows available, see my stories.

04/12/2024

Here’s how I’m spending my time as a flower farmer in December…by day planting out perennials, and in the evenings making dried flower wreaths and whipping up bows for my beautiful foliage swags. One week left to go until I award myself a Christmas break!

29/11/2024

A wreath of herbs to celebrate the life of a lady who loved to grow them. I was so happy to receive this request, particularly to use lots of rosemary. I’ve planted dozens of rosemary bushes at the field to create funeral tributes - and include sprigs in bridal bouquets too for a sweet act of remembrance.

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