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Red, pink and white tulips and yellow narcissi for Valentine's Day bouquets by Wye Valley Flowers.
Willow View Farm

Meet our team of fantastic volunteers

Flowers from the Farm is a trade organisation run by flower farmers who give their time freely to support this amazing network.  Find local regional co-ordinators and other key team members below.

Rebekah Rixon- South East

I farm on the West Berks/Hants border. I am entering my 7th season. I grow on approximately an acre. I supply flowers locally, both retail and wholesale. I also have PYO days and workshops on the farm. I supply flowers for weddings and events. I have benefitted from the friendships I have made through FFTF.
southeast@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Jill Houston

Jill Houston – South East

Jill grows beautifully natural English country garden flowers for weddings, funerals, events, bouquets and regular local deliveries. Throughout the year she host's workshops on all aspects of growing flowers and environmentally thoughtful floral design, in the beautiful flower barn and cutting garden.

southeast@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Jo Thompson of Wye Valley Flowers

Jo Thompson – South West

Jo has always been involved with flowers and growing - her grandfather was a flower farmer, but when she bought 13 acres behind her house in 2019 it seemed a perfect opportunity to grow flowers more sustainably and she retrained as an eco-florist. She grows on sustainable principles, with no pesticides or chemicals.
southwest@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Angela Brooke-Smith- South West

Angela Brooke-Smith from Flower Fusions, likes to laugh, weed, grow and sell lots of flowers. She has three plots, all rented, in Winsham, South Somerset between Chard and Axminster. She has been a member of FftF for over 10 years.


southwest@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Rozanne, The Ledbury Flower Farmer

Rozanne Delamore – West Midlands

Rozanne runs The Ledbury Flower Farmer growing beautiful British grown blooms in a garden gathered style. She can offer flowers for your special occasion whether that is a wedding, party, a gift bouquet, flower arrangers bucket or farewell flowers.

westmidlands@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Louisa Butcher – East Anglia

Louisa runs Brunstead Blooms on the north east Norfolk coast. She loves to sustainably grow and arrange gloriously scented, seasonal flowers and can provide them for any occasion. She also runs Pick Your Own sessions and flowery workshops on her farm.


eastanglia@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Jenna Walker – East Anglia

Jenna focusses on seasonality and sustainability in her potager garden in Suffolk. She grows for her own floristry business and a growing workshop programme which encourages connections with the land and the seasons by combining floristry and folklore.










eastanglia@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Bethany Bielby East Mids RCO

Bethany Bielby – East Midlands

Beth moved to Derbyshire in April 2024 with the hopes of setting up a flower farm. In the autumn of the same year, she prepared beds, planted tulip bulbs and (with many helping hands) built a polytunnel! 2025 will be her first year growing flowers at scale.

Before relocating to Derbyshire she lived and worked in central London. Formerly the Lead Horticulturist for Covent Garden, she was responsible for greening the West End.

Beth also currently freelance as a wedding florist and teach workshops to support my fledgling business.

eastmidlands@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Maria Heywood East Midlands Coordinator

Maria Heywood – East Midlands

Maria is situated in Measham on the Leicestershire/Derbyshire border. She grows beautiful blooms in her gardens and create gorgeous bouquets and arrangements and offers both Bespoke and Package wedding flowers to suit all budgets. Flower arrangers buckets of flowers and foliage are also available from April to October. She also offers floral workshops for private parties in your home or at our studio and at local venues throughout the year.





eastmidlands@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Emma of The Fellside Flower Company holds a bunch of freshly cut rudbeckia grown on her flower farm.

Emma Greenshaw – North West

Emma runs The Fellside Flower Company in Cumbria and supplies buckets of DIY flowers, bouquets and bunches to her local area and wholesale to florists. Sustainability is at the heart of her business and she's committed to working without chemicals or floral foam and always uses plastic free packaging.




northwest@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Andrea Clarke – North East and Yorkshire

Andrea is a grower based just outside of York at Hand Sown Flowers. Hers is an addiction that got out of hand with a 79p packet of dahlia seeds over 10 years ago. She still has those plants, but sadly none make a good cut flower! She focusses on growing with environmentally friendly methods.



yorksneast@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Deborah Simpson-Boston from Periwinkle Barn

Deborah Simpson-Boston – North East and Yorkshire

Originally from Durham Deborah Simpson Boston has spent the last ten years working as an event florist in London and Brighton. Having moved back to the rural Durham countryside in 2022 with a passion for British flowers and an itch to scratch in the dirt Deborah is now to growing her own stems on her farm and offering a complete service from seed to bouquet.

yorksneast@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Al Hughes – Wales

Al is from Riverview Flower Farm based in the beautiful Vale of Glamorgan and grows seasonal flowers and sell's wholesale buckets to florists, bouquets at markets and to individual customers.
She is passionate about promoting British, locally grown, seasonal flowers with love and care for the environment in which she grow's.

wales@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Sarah Francis of The Flower Academy, Derbyshire, in her workshop, holding a bunch of asters with colourful red and yellow flowers in the background.

Sarah Francis, Newsletter Editor

Sarah runs The Florist Academy in Derbyshire.

An experienced florist, she's now learning about growing using no-dig methods with the ultimate goal of living and working on her own smallholding.





newsletter@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Sarah Bedford

Sarah Bedford, Instagram

Sarah runs Golden Valley Meadow who specialise wild meadow flowers from cornflowers, love-in-a-mist and deliciously fragrant sweet peas to snapdragons, old-English roses and sumptuous dahlias.


instagram@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk

Jo Maguire supports Flowers from the Farm in an administrative capacity.

Jo Maguire, Administration

Association Management & Services (AMS) established in 1996 joined FFTF in early 2021 to provide support in all aspects of running the association. We are delighted to be working with you all.



adminsupport@flowersfromthefarm.co.uk