After the long dark winter months, spring finds flower farmers all over the UK champing at the bit to get started with seed sowing and planting.
Share our excitement as the tulips and narcissi burst into life and herald the start of the new flower growing year.
When you hear ‘narcissi’ don’t immediately think of cheery yellow daffs. Catrinel Wright explains more about narcissi as a group, and the wealth of colours and forms that this gorgeous early flower can bring to the garden and vase.
Liz Fallon from Cotswold Posy Patch shares her favourite tulip varieties for cutting and we explore the huge range of forms and colours which these spring divas can take.
Find out why flower farmers particularly cherish these early spring flowers.
With so many lovely British blooms to choose from, it’s hard to choose just six, so we’ve listed those hard to find cut flowers which your local flower farmer may just be able to help with.
With chequerboard patterned, nodding, bell-shaped heads, these delicate and unusual flowers are often available from mid March onwards.
Hellebores are stunning for weddings and events but can be tricky so it’s hard to find them commercially grown. You’ll spot their moody beauty liberally scattered through all our spring resources!
In early to late March, the cherries, damsons and hawthorns burst into bloom and are fabulous for adding structure and delicacy to any arrangement.
With tall stems of purple or white flowers, honesty is grown mainly for its moon penny seedheads later in the year, but in April the flowers are beautiful for cutting too.
Poppies will last 5 days in the vase if picked at the right stage, but their delicacy means that you will hardly ever find them in the commercial wholesale supply chain. Our members love to grow them for stunning weddings and events from late spring to early summer.
Ranunculus offer a fantastic spring alternative to roses and peonies in arrangements. They’re on a smaller scale but have the same layers upon layers of ruffles that make roses and peonies so appealing.
Spring array by The Sussex Gardener. Left to right naricissus, hyacinth, hellebore, narcissus, euphorbia, camelia, hellebore, lungwort, snowflake, narcissus.
A round up from our flower farmers of all things Spring!
Does June count as late spring or early summer in the growing calendar? Whichever you call it, it marks the time when seasonal abundance really starts for the flower grower […]
Jessica Hulme of Meadows Flowers, Staffordshire looks at why we covet these divas of the flower patch. For a few fleeting weeks in late spring the blousy blooms of peonies […]
Hati Colvin of The Dahlia Wood remembers her first wedding of the season, and the special feeling of flowering an event for only the closest friends and family. It was […]
In a slight twist to our monthly series on bouquets made from the best of British seasonal ingredients, Emma Monahan of Emma Jayne’s Garden looks not to her farm, but […]
Sustainably-grown, scented, spring flowers are set to decorate the Quire and the Grave of the Unknown Warrior of Westminster Abbey for the coronation ceremony, a gift to Their Majesties King […]
Louisa Butcher of Brunstead Blooms in Norfolk embraces the gathering pace of the British fresh flower season, and picks out her favourite ingredients to use in an April bridal bouquet. […]
Angela Brooke-Smith of Flower Fusions in Winsham, Somerset, selects some of her favourite spring blossom for cutting, and gives some handy tips for how to get the best from it […]
Cate Johnson of Green Gate Blooms apprises us of the wealth of British-grown flowers available to a wedding florist in March, and how important it is to her to reflect […]
These vibrant early spring flowers are always a welcome sight after the long, dark winter months, but growing them is not without its challenges. Susie Ross of Wivenhoe Flowers explains why […]
As flower farmers across the country gear up for the start of a new season, Jessica Roberts of Featherstone Flowers takes us behind the scenes and into a busy world […]
We were thrilled to be the headline supporter of the Bloom Theatre at this year’s RHS Malvern Spring Festival. A team of Flowers from the Farm growers and florists from […]
Emily Westall takes us behind the scenes of a busy spring week on her flower farm – everything there is to juggle and organise, but equally the many things there […]
In this new learning resource on May flowers, Catrinel Wright of Edington Flowers talks us through the range available in the humble onion, or allium, family and why they bring some […]