Member Stories Archive - Flowers from the Farm

Hilltop Flowers

Angharad Maxwell of Hilltop Flowers are bucking the trend by growing seasonal, fresh, blooms with as much scent as possible. Read her story here.

Welshborn

Mark Mckee was inspired to grow his own flowers after being blown away by the quality and freshness of a delivery of locally grown flowers whilst working as an event florist. He now runs his own business, Welshborn, in North Wales.

The Cornish Cottage Garden

Bryony Jones is a small-scale flower farmer based in Cornwall. She says “Quite frankly, I absolutely love my job! “. Read her story to find out why.

Blooming Green

Cousins Bek and Jen founded their sustainable flower business, Blooming Green, back in 2007. Read how their business has blossomed.

Blossoms and Berries

Clare and Simon Hillam tell the story of how they came to farm flowers in west Wales, all they have already achieved, and their plans for the future.

Pembridge Farm

Carolyn Deeley of Pembridge Farm explains how she caught the flower farming bug and set up her business at the start of the Covid crisis.

The Floral Potager

Read how Sacha Przewieslik-Allen of The Floral Potager was inspired by her locally grown wedding flowers to use her botanical background to start a new career in flower farming.

Stokesay Flower Barney and Victoria Maritin in the walled garden

Stokesay Flowers

Victoria Martin of Stokesay Flowers explains how she and her partner Barney ended up as flower farmers, and how they’ve focussed their Shropshire-based business since starting out.

Queenie’s Floral Design

Gretel Cooper of Queenie’s Floral Design explains why she left a career as a primary school teacher to embark on a life in flowers.

Camomile and Cornflowers

Kate’s flower business is inspired by the treasures she finds in her established Worcestershire garden. She tells us more about her business and how she reaches her customers.

Simply by Arrangement

In a small corner of Yorkshire, Sarah Statham runs her beautiful flower business, Simply by Arrangement. After starting out to grow flowers just for her own floristry, Sarah’s flower arranging workshops now welcome florists and growers from all over the UK and across the world.

Henthorn Farm Flowers

Kirsten Mackay of Henthorn Farm Flowers shows how productive a small urban space can be. See a virtual tour of her Lancashire cutting garden and read her story.

Emma cuts tulips in the field at the Urban Flower Farm

The Urban Flower Farmer

After reading ‘The 50 mile Bouquet’ by Debra Prinzing, Emma de Sousa was inspired to start growing her own flowers for her floristry business. She explains the challenges of being a grower in an urban setting and shares the benefit of her experience with would-be city flower farmers.

Fieldhouse Flowers

Gill Hodgson of Fieldhouse Flowers chats with FFTF co-chair Meg Edmonds, and explains more about the story of Flowers from the Farm as it turns 10 years old.

Plantpassion

After 19 years in horticulture, having worked in garden centres, for the RHS, and as a self employed garden designer and gardener, Claire Brown found the newly formed Flowers from the Farm via Google, and decided that flower farming was what she wanted to do next.

Sussex Cutting Garden

Kate and Caroline of the Sussex Cutting Garden look back on a whirlwind decade of flower growing and talk us through the different steps and stages of setting up their flower growing and floristry business.

Tuckshop Flowers

After doing flowers for a wedding and a funeral, Carole was amazed to discover how satisfying she found the experience, having only been interested in flowers previously from a gardening perspective. She leapt in at the deep end and has been swimming there ever since.

Nature’s Posy

In 2018 Debbie Richards had a successful career in HR. Then she bought a book: The Flower Farmer’s Year’ by Georgie Newbury. She read it from cover to cover and by the time she had finished a seed was sown.

Catkin

Rachel Petherham started her business, Catkin, in 2006. Back then, few people were growing flowers to sell and she explains why she was so delighted when Gill Hodgson decided to set up an organisation to support British cut flower growers like her. Read her story.

Yalham Hayes Flower Farm

Aizel Finch of Yalham Hayes Flower Farm tells the story of her unexpected career change and why she loves being a flower farmer.

The Flower Farm

Clare Ashcroft explains why her quest as a florist for the sustainable and unusual led her to diversify her business into flower growing.

Quirky Flowers

Pam Moseley of Quirky Flowers explains how a fledgling FFTF organisation gave her the encouragement she needed to develop her business.