The Flower Farmer's Big Weekend
From tours to pick-your-own to workshops to tea and cake in the garden, our members open their flower farms and plots to visitors during Big Weekend events across the UK.
A collection of images from the Flower Farmers’ Big Weekend 2022 and 2023. Enjoy a taste of what happens when our flower farmers throw open their gates and welcome you their flower fields for this annual celebration of seasonal, local cut flowers and the people who grow them.
From tours to pick-your-own to workshops to tea and cake in the garden, our members open their flower farms and plots to visitors during Big Weekend events across the UK.
Jo at Wye Valley Flowers in St. Briavels, Gloucestershire gathers flowers for a floral demonstration for Big Weekend visitors (Lucy Shergold Photography).
A happy visitor to the pick-your-own plot of The Sunflower Lady in Warminster, Wiltshire (Lucy Shergold Photography).
Abbey Farm Flowers offers pick-your-own flowers in the midst of medieval ruins in Abbotsbury, Dorset (Lucy Shergold Photography).
Visitors to Compton Garden Flowers near Bristol cut their own bountiful buckets of flowers.
PYO visitors to The Ledbury Flower Farmer look pleased with their haul.
Abbey Farm flowers welcome visitors to a PYO session.
A decorated tractor makes a unique display at the Big Weekend event hosted by Bryonia Flowers and Grown & Made in Macclesfield, Cheshire (photo by Joanna Eardley).
Rozanne of The Ledbury Flower Farmer (Ledbury, Herefordshire) demonstrates a summery hand-tied bouquet and discusses sustainable floristry (Lucy Shergold Photography).
At Organic Blooms near Bristol. All roads lead to cake.
Admiring the plentiful summer flowers at Wye Valley Flowers in St. Briavels, Gloucestershire (Lucy Shergold Photography).
Farhill Flowers, near Chepstow, offers Big Weekend visitors tea and cake in the garden (Lucy Shergold Photography).
Delighted bouquet pickers at Side Farm Flowers, Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Posies for tables await visitors to Organic Blooms, near Bristol.
The shop at Pulvertoft Flowers in Spalding, Lincolnshire is fully stocked and ready for visitors.
Visitors are delighted with the bouquets they've made at Side Farm Flowers, Rotherham, Yorkshire.
Visitors to Abbey Farm Flowers in Abbotsbury, Dorset pick their own bright summer flowers (Lucy Shergold Photography).