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A fun cut flower field in a coastal sheep paddock
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A little roadside flower shed, stocked on the weekends.
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Seasonal bunches, workshops, creative projects
Enquiries via DM or my website
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Greymouth, NZ

17/11/2024

Treat yourself! See you there 💓
Share a post, tag a hard working mum, spread the love about this extra special Christmas ‘do (and tag me!) and you might be the one to score yourself a bunch of flower shed flowers next weekend 🧚🏻

Book via my website.
Spots are limited x

www.byphoebe.co.nz

16/11/2024

Sunday shed flowers: freshly picked as it turned dark tonight. They will get a nice long drink overnight and be out ready for you to pick up on your Sunday drive in the morning 🐝

Featuring the glorious Campanula (or Canterbury bells) which have a really short flowering season - once they are finished they won’t be back until next November!

Join the seasonal flower journey!

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07/11/2024

Medium and large bouquets are (almost) always available to order and collect (or you can choose Greymouth or Reefton delivery, with a gift card). Details on the website, or you can drop me a dm here. 🎀

As a local, seasonal grower the flowers are weather dependant but the flower field has had a beautiful long steady winter and spring (though the rain lately has created a bit of a pause and some challenges for the flowers!) shout out to ’s beautiful seedlings out there doing the mahi in the rain 💓

As a mum the flowers are also family dependant, though I think I’ve been able to make almost all requests a flowery reality for my people this year. We appreciate your support so much. 🎈

Thanks to you all x

01/11/2024

In this weekend’s bouquets, you’ll find a mix of some of the following long lasting, beautiful, spring ingredients, grown here in Paroa.

Fennel
Foxglove
Gladioli
Nigella
Ammi
Orlaya
Poppies
Dusty miller
Snapdragon
Aquilegia
Dara
Campanula

And love.

31/10/2024

Shed flowers are out!
Celebrating the first campanulas, iris and peachy foxies 🕊️

$30 mixed bouquets, cash or bank transfer available.
456 Main South Rd, Paroa, Greymouth

Happy flowery Halloween honeys x

02/10/2024

Grab a friend, fill your creative cup and enjoy a morning in the garden!

Arranging the Flowers:
A Hurunui Garden Festival workshop with Flowers by Phoebe.
Hosted at the beautiful Top Cottage, Lowry Peaks Rd, Culverden.

Fuel your creativity and learn tips to artfully arrange characterful, seasonal flowers, foliage and fruits in your favourite vase.
A hands-on workshop with Phoebe, a flower grower, educator and artist.
Suitable for all levels and abilities.

Visit www.byphoebe.co.nz to book your tickets.

27/09/2024

This Chinese forget-me-not (cynoglossum) is a new cutie to my field this year. It gets bonus points for self-sowing, taking a wee job off my hands 🧚🏼‍♂️

The daffs in this handful are from mums, thanks for digging up countless bulbs last year for me 😚

We said bye bye to the tulips already - it was my first time growing them and they were SO DELISH.
I’m already scheming for many more bulbs and a longer tulip season next year!!

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27/09/2024

Here’s your reminder if you have received fresh flowers recently to give them some TLC!

🌸 Make sure you unwrap them and remove the rubber band, choosing a big, roomy vase with plenty of fresh water.
🌸 Keep them away from direct sun and ripening fruit so they last their longest for you.
🌸 Trim the stem ends when you replace the vase water every couple of days.
🌸 And edit out anything that is past its best, pop it under some plants in your own garden to gradually return the flowers back to the soil.

Blooms like ranunculus, snapdragons and Icelandic poppies in the spring bouquets will slowly open up over a couple of weeks so you can enjoy the show!

We are in between flower crops in the field at the moment, I am watching some new perennials and annuals bulk out and shoot up and waiting for some sunshine to get them flowering. So watch this space…

Thanks for all of the flower orders, I’m so grateful for all of the support!

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26/08/2024

Join me for a workshop during the Hurunui Garden Festival in November 🧚🏼‍♂️

~ Arranging the Flowers ~

A workshop with Flowers by Phoebe

You will learn tips and tricks for growing, harvesting and arranging flowers, foliage, fruit and veg in your favourite vase. There will be a focus on seasonality, creativity and the whimsy and characterful nature of locally grown ingredients, as well as design tips around colour, balance and proportion.

Come along for a relaxed, social, creative couple of hours. Leave with confidence in your arranging abilities, a broadened awareness of what you can grow, gather and forage for the vase, and your own beautiful floral arrangement.

🌼 Bring your favourite vase, take it home filled with flowers
🐝 We will be using foam-free sustainable mechanics
🍃There are two workshops scheduled, with limited capacity

For bookings, visit www.byphoebe.co.nz

14/08/2024

This is my first season growing spring flowers, these are ranunculus and they are DIVINE. Florence tried to convince me I had it all wrong and that they were roses- the blooms are quite rose-like when they open up but, sorry Flo, it’s not rose season yet 😆

It can be quite wet here through spring so we are lucky to have a tunnel house to give these gals the fullllll princess treatment.

They have just been treated to a couple of hours of weeding, a compost top up and a home made seaweed/sheep poo/comfrey/bokashi liquid feed to give them a boost. I’m also brewing up some WCA to strengthen the cell walls and they’ll get a wee dose of copper too because the naughty powdery mildew is creeping in.

So, when you get these honeys in your spring flower shed bunches (coming soonish!) or in a large late winter bouquet (dm to order!) know that they have had so much love and attention poured into them!!! 💝

Thanks .rd and for the feeding and growing tips, as always. 👸👸

30/07/2024

Winter flowers off to spread some love this week.

The field is still looking sleepy and wintery but it is incredible the flowers that are still blooming away and the spring flowers that are waking up already. It’s a verrrry windy night out there tonight though so I am a little nervous for my morning field walk!

I am doing a limited number of large bunches to order through winter, depending on how the field is looking.

As always, I really appreciate the support from you all out there 💗

26/07/2024

HB Justy, couldn’t do any of it without you x

20/07/2024

A mid winter wedding in Point Elizabeth, Māwhera Greymouth.
This was so much fun to grow for and design, made even better by the trust and creative freedom in conversation with R&L leading up to their big day.

Extra fan-girling here about that cute buttonhole.
Heuchera, rose hip, chrysanthemum, horopito, fern.

Bouquet flowers included snapdragons, protea, copper sheen, helichrysum, chrysanthemum and ammi.

18/07/2024

The first deliciously scented, painterly, delightful spring flowers are blooming!

Dafs, jasmine, anemones, Icelandic poppies and some wild honeysuckle from an evening walk.

18/07/2024

Barnaby, my 3 yr old photographer, was on the tools this eve.
I had my hands full as per 😆 wouldn’t have it any other way.

10/06/2024

Ball flowers to boogie in!
I’m making some of the cutest everlasting corsages to up your vibe this weekend, Grey High honeys.
All flowers grown here, by me.
Dm for details x

04/06/2024

I am learning and integrating regenerative practices as much as I can in this flower growing journey. A key foundation is looking after and building up my soil health.

There are so many motivating and ethically driven reasons for embracing regenerative practices including resourcefulness, efficiency, healthiness, budget and reducing waste.

Sometimes it’s just going for the most logical option while in this time-poor blur of short days and a mountain of things on the to-do list. (I know that you know what I mean here!!)

Here’s a nifty example that I’m stoked with this week. All of our compostable materials get returned to the garden and this ‘in situ compost’ has turned into a new garden bed (at the top of the photo) for my spring tulips! The narrow closest bed is the next composting pile.

If you are planning your spring/summer garden this is a great way to start, right now. Just ensure you’re adding as much ‘carbon’ (cardboard, fallen leaves, paper) as possible alongside the juicy green stuff (plants, grass, food scraps.) check out .kate if you’re interested. She’s the queen.

17/05/2024

Spot the flowers- lolol good luck there 😆 the field is in full late autumn mode and the flowers have come to a screeching halt following my Mother’s Day harvest.
You can see some perennials bulking up, spring seedlings romping along and a good crop of weeds, as per.

So, the flower shed will be taking a winter holiday, thanks for all of you out there who have been swinging by this season, has been SUCH a buzz having all of the support and local flower love.

If you are after a bouquet through winter, flick me a message and I may be able to help, I do have a wee crop of snapdragons and a few other honeys still coming on, as well as some lovely textural winter goodies.

In the meantime I will be getting ready for the spring flowers and a neat new flower spot for next season.. watch this space!

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456 Main South Road, Paroa
Greymouth

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http://www.byphoebe.co.nz/

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It’s another wet one, but these gals are here to brighten your space, treat yourself. Your flowers this week will contain@a few of the following: Campanula, Icelandic poppies, foxgloves, ammi, snapdragons, lemon balm, astromeria, nigella, gladioli, dara, and love.

I cut these ranunculus two weeks ago. Today they are in fullllll ruffle mode, the dreamiest, floofiest gals. Having some humidity = powdery mildew challenges with this crop in the tunnel house but if I can work it out, holy schmoly, these babes are worth it 🦋 Delicious seedlings and tireless advice and morale boosts from @gray_floral 💕

Welcome August! We are edging towards Spring and the first real spring flowers are here, making this special juicy bunch extra special 💝 Volume up for the lambs bleating in the background! One went to school for show and tell this morning and now they’re lounging in the sun. What a treat.

‘How to pinch and probably propagate larkspur’ Effectively this is: ‘an essential technique to get maximum stems from your plants’ with the added bonus of ‘a hit and miss way to get extra plants’ The final (undocumented) step is to water the pinched and planted tips well and then take their sunhats off after a week or so, once they have recovered and sent out roots. I have maybe a 50-75% success rate with this and I do it for all of my cut and come agains: larkspur, cosmos, snapdragon, marigold, dahlia etc. etc. You’ll get more consistent success if you tuck the pinched tops into wee pots of soil with plastic bags over to keep some humidity in but this is not a bad, low input trick to try! I also reckon it’s not a bad way to succession plant 😆

My locally grown flower biz is all about seasonality and creativity. It doesn’t get much more local or seasonal than a monarch butterfly chrysalis (I can’t believe I managed to transport it safely!!!) in an autumn birthday bouquet for special local flower lovers, who have supported my business from the start. I appreciate all of the local support more than I can say. 🦋 I grow the flowers here, in Paroa, in what was a sheep paddock, in earshot of the Wild West Coast waves. Currently my flowers are available to order (for large and bespoke bouquets and arrangements) and to pick up in your own time from my roadside flower shed (first in, best dressed!) most weekends. Keep an eye out too for some workshops coming to you, once I’ve got the baby life juggle a bit more together 😂😅 #springparty

Studio —> shed Delivery kids!

Hey Reefton! I’ve got news for you! You can now get locally grown, fresh seasonal flowers (by Phoebe), delivered. 💐 Large, mixed bunch, wrapped with love, delivered to Reefton township addresses for $70 🍃 DM to order, treat yourself, surprise a friend, send some sunshine 🌼

Choosing flowers for your bunches and arrangements fills my creative cup 💫 I love the sculptural qualities, colour ‘bridging’ options and personality of the flowers and the way this all changes across the seasons. I’m excited to share this with you in some late summer ‘Arranging the Flowers’ workshops. Keep an eye out here or DM to reserve a spot! 🐝