The Knowledge — Crop Report

CELEBRATE BRITISH GROWN! WOW! Thank you for all your orders - not sure quite how we managed to cram a weeks worth in 2 days!! Those of you still ploughing on with the backlog of weddings - keep going :) I know there's not much let up even if it is a bank holiday weekend and I hope you get a bit of time to recharge and celebrate The Jubilee! YOU GOT THIS!!  Rain - and big downpours here squished Cornflowers and we are waiting for the next batches of field crops to get back up again after deluges of...

PEONY PARADE !! Thunder, lightening and deluges of rain overnight with strong sun during the day and temperatures of 20c + Mother Nature does it every year and we are all working at pace chasing Sweet Williams and Peonies. Somehow it always settles down after the first earlies are off the fields and as everyone welcomes back the parade of peonies that are here for such a fleeting moment in time!  NEW: Scented Pinks - lots of lovely regal purples, pinks are coming  Cornflowers, field grown Delphinium white and blue.  BOOM the season has started! we will just get going and...

End of April and we thought the spring was warming up... and then!! Its blooming chilly! All the crops are waiting for a watering - really need rain. Some crops have slowed right up due to chilly night and many are waiting in the wings for rain before they are ready to crop.  At the Home of British Blooms its Tulip Festival week - historically the time of the Tulip Parade where coach loads packed with thousands of people would visit South Lincolnshire to tour the area and wonder at the sights, Tulip fields and of course Parade. Nowadays we...

Thank you for cramming so many orders into a short Bank holiday week! Phewee...!! and lovely to see the start of new products coming through - perfect for the up and coming Church Flower Festivals and these demonstrations and talks I seem to have crammed into April! Lovely mini gathering this week to inspire the local arrangers to try some planet friendly designs for the festivals and its off to the NAFAS Demonstrators Symposium tomorrow and then again to another NAFAS talk on Best of British next week! All of our local churches hold  flower festivals end of April beginning...

  Hope you’ve all had a chance to recover after Mothers Day. I’ve got a busy weekend ahead — set up for Farmers Market, play date at a Flower Club Workshop & GFG mini conference I decided on my birthday last week that I need to get out more so here we go! A change is as good as a rest ?! Well nothing much is normal that’s for sure; we have had plenty of change with the weather this week already - rain, snow, hail and sun for the last couple of days.   Our latest Product Focus Vlog...