Join me for a behind-the-scenes look at how I'm starting to grow and sell cut flowers in the south of England. Over the course of the year I'll be sharing everything I'm doing from planning through to harvesting flowers, by way of highs and lows, hints and tips, lessons I've learnt the hard way and (hopefully) some beautiful cut flowers. 🌻 If you're thinking of starting your own cut flower business or you'd just like the low-down on what it's really like, this is the podcast for you. Subscri ...
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Who Do I Sell to? How Do I Find my Cut Flower Customers?
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21:15Have you thought about exactly who you're going to sell your flowers to? Before you sow any seeds or buy any plants, start thinking about this crucial part of the process right now. Are you dreaming of turning your cut flowers into bouquets and selling directly to customers at a local market? Or would you prefer to sell to florists? What sort of fl…
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Storing Seeds & Money Saving Tips for Making Your Own Seed Compost
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14:42It's February so let's talk about seeds! Collecting, drying, storing and saving, plus some seeds to avoid and the best seed compost. Everyone is talking about seeds right now and I'm certainly thinking about mine. In this episode I explain why seeds are saved from one year to the next and I cover the basics of how to store your seeds. Plus I talk a…
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Which Cut Flowers Should I Grow? How to Select the Best Ones
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13:19Are you wondering which cut flowers you should grow? Are you confused by all the choices and not sure which will suit your needs or your budget? Are you thinking about the impact of vase life, stem length or scent? In this episode, I’m diving into how to select the best cut flowers to grow. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: ✅ What makes a flower i…
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Sweetpeas: Perfect for Dramatic Scented Cut Flowers
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15:13This week got off to a rather chilly, murky, and drizzly start. However there's nothing like the thought of hundreds of gloriously coloured and heavily scented sweetpeas to cheer me up. My sweetpea story starts with a holiday outing to buy raw milk on a farm in Dorset which led to the discovery of a fantastic supplier of sweetpeas. I share the type…
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Which Dahlias Do I Need? How Do I Choose?
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18:18Dahlias are the queens of the cut flower world. They are achingly beautiful and come in a vast array of varieties, colours and shapes. Join me behind the scenes while I plan my 2025 dahlia beds. Today I talk about the nursery I visited in September 2024 to look at some selections (with obligatory notepad and pen), a brief bit about apprenticing wit…
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Perennials: What Worked in 2024 and What's New for 2025
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22:48Hello and welcome to a rainy episode. Join me today as we let the chickens out first thing this morning for a warm scrambled egg breakfast (them, not me) and I talk about the perennials I grew on the plot in 2024. I'll share with you why perennials can form the low-maintenance backbone of your cut flower plot, and how to do this according to your o…
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Review of 2024 Cut Flower Trial Beds: Important Lessons to Learn
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17:57In today's episode I review the cut flowers I grew in my 2024 trial beds. I talk about what cut flowers I planned to grow and why, what I actually ended up growing, which cut flowers turned out well and why, what the florists loved, what I didn't like, where I sourced my cut flower seeds, the seeds which flourished and those which either didn't ger…
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Set Growing Goals and Why You Must Store Water
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23:54Hello and welcome. Join me on today's episode as I let the hens out into a chilly and misty morning and chat with you about the merits of tables, the importance of somewhere to sit on your plot, the benefits of making detailed notes about everything you do, and I answer a very good question about whether you actually need prior experience of sowing…
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Cut Flowers: What you really DO and DON'T need to get started
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22:50Hello and welcome. In this episode I bust some myths about what you do and don't need to get started growing cut flowers, plus a few things that would be ideal. If you're dreaming of starting your own cut flower business, you might be interested to hear about whether or not you really need to own your own land, what qualifications you should get, w…
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What Happens When you Sow Cheap Supermarket Seeds
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13:13Hello and welcome. In this episode I talk about my “trial beds”: what they are and how they came about, including the massive crisis of confidence I had at the start of 2024 which meant that I ended up with trial beds in the first place. I describe the layout of the beds and explain how I created them, then I discuss how I made the paths (and what …
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Braving the Cold: Welcome to my Cut Flower Growing Year
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12:39Hello and welcome to my first episode of 2025. In this episode I brave the freezing temperatures and take a quick walk around the cut flower plot to see what’s going on and what is surviving the chill. I also discuss my compost bays including how I set them up, constructed and positioned them and what I add to keep them going. Are you dreaming of r…
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