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Artist turned Flower Farmer & Florist. Growing extraordinary flowers for local people to enjoy.

31/12/2025

I’ve been doing minimal harvests over the last week while we’ve had family staying (I give myself a limit of 2 hours to pick). It’s been a really interesting exercise to see what I instinctively always pick, and what I leave on the plants.

The first batch of my 4th year dahlia seedlings are in full bloom, and these are the 3 that I’m picking every single stem. They’re chunky, they’re productive, and they have good long stems.

There’s a few others that I’m not touching which is making me think I’ll actually pull the plug on them, even though I’ve been bulking them up for 4 years!

My focus is definitely on developing new varieties that are good for cut flowers … they have to be more than just pretty to make the cut around here 😜

I’m so looking forward to curating my collection to release in NZ Winter 2026.

16/12/2025

I’ve just introduced the Flower-Farmer-In-Training to the concept of a flat-lay. We did this one together - it was more fun than he was expecting!

These are some of my new dahlia seedlings from seed planted this year. I spent some time today numbering, labelling, photographing and cutting them back. It’s quite time-consuming so I only got about 12 done. Lots more to go!

I’m not a big fan of yellow, but the chunky big yellow one is looking promising - such strong stems.

There’s a lot of years and assessing still to go before these could potentially be released as tubers. It’s a fun project…stick around and watch the story unfold :)

12/12/2025

Flowers are wonderfully seasonal, so we can enjoy an ever changing display of beauty.

I wandered the PYO field this morning and filmed a few pretty little flowers that are just starting to appear.

They all give your bunch a touch of magic!

Are you joining us for our PYO events this December???

06/12/2025

When people hear that I’m a flower farmer, I’m not quite sure what they imagine. Probably either big greenhouses, or a very large sprawling country garden that I wander around picking flowers.

Well there’s no greenhouses, and no large country garden…just a small block of land with rows of flowers grown specifically for cut flowers - much like a market garden.

I like to think of myself as a ‘small batch’ flower grower. Much like your favourite small batch coffee roaster, artisan bakery, or ceramic artist…we do not mass produce our flowers. We grow them in manageable quantities with love and care, always keeping the end user (you) in mind.

Each batch of flowers is unique and limited addition (depending on the season and the weather), and no two bunches are ever quite the same.

It’s what I’d call good honest work, and extremely satisfying to be able to bring so much joy to my local community.

Loving this small batch way of growing 🌸

01/12/2025

Imagine a peaceful wander through our flower field at dawn or dusk, choosing which flowers you'd like to pick!

You can now experience this for yourself ... our Pick-Your-Own flower events have been added to our website.

This year we are only holding events in the next few weeks leading up to Christmas (and then we're having some family time...we know you'll understand!)

There are currently 6 events to choose from, but get in touch if you have a group of at least 4 ticket holders and you'd like us to consider adding another date.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the flower farm 🌻

30/11/2025

Help me choose who stays and who goes!

I think I have grown about 250 new dahlia seedlings this year, and I’m hoping to keep max 20.

Here’s 10 that have survived the first round of removals.

Are there any that catch your eye??? Tell me why you like them!

This little project brings me so much joy 🤩

29/11/2025

Confessions of an online shopper!

Before I owned my own business, I did a lot of my shopping online…especially books. Booktopia was my go-to supplier.

Since owning my own business I’ve changed my spending habits. Wherever possible I try to buy from local businesses that are owned by people who live in our community.

There’s always a tiny bit of satisfaction at knowing my money is staying in our community and supporting people that I actually know.

And there’s a certain joy in choosing my own books in a shop rather than scrolling online.

It’s pretty easy to shop local!

28/11/2025

We’re not buying into the whole Black Friday shenanigans.

It breaks my heart a little to see small businesses feel like they have to offer a discount to not be forgotten at this time of year.

To be honest, most small businesses already offer their best fair price…we don’t have over-inflated margins that we can cut to make you all want to suddenly buy our products!

So it’s just business as usual…me…outside…picking flowers…and just quietly enjoying some beautiful sunshine ☀️

And I’m so grateful for all my wonderful local customers who keep supporting my business every day 🌸

Address

42 Viv Davie-Martin Drive
Warkworth
0984

Website

http://www.floraflowers.co.nz/

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Flowers with creative flair

FLORA Flower Studio is my home-based florist business in Warkworth. I’m very excited to be able to combine my background in both art and horticulture to bring you flowers with creative flair, and I’m currently obsessed with growing a collection of foliage and flowers sustainably so that I can provide you with some ‘grown-not-flown’ flora in your purchases. I’m available for pre-ordered bouquets, wedding flowers, funeral flowers and flowers for any other special occasion (or just because you deserve a treat!). My farm fresh flowers are also available at Charlie Gelato Garden during their strawberry season (approx last week Sept - Christmas)