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New from Green & Gorgeous

April 5, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Green and Gorgeous are small-scale cut flower growers based on an organic farm in Oxfordshire, and offering a full on-site bridal consultation service.

Green & Gorgeous cutting garden

Green & Gorgeous cutting garden

All the flowers are grown organically alongside vegetables, fruit and chickens!

After growing and selling organic vegetables for many years. they realised that the same could be done with flowers, as they accumulate just as many air miles and use even more chemicals.

A wide range of flowers and foliage is grown to ensure all the ingredients for a bouquet throughout the seasons.  Growing this range of plants is good organic practice, promoting healthy soil and preventing pest and disease build up.

Green & Gorgeous, specialise in growing traditional, English country garden flowers which are selected for their colour, scent, vase life, novelty and nostalgic value.  Flowers are picked early in the morning, conditioned and stored in a cold room for at least 24 hours prior to delivery.

Visit the Green & Gorgeous website for more information on availability, farmers markets, bridal consultations, vase hire and seasonal bouquets.

Filed Under: Features, Industry Focus Tagged With: Air Miles, Bouquet, Bouquets, Bridal Consultation, Chickens, Cold Room, Consultation Service, Cut Flower, Cutting Garden, Farmers Markets, Flower Growers, foliage, Garden Flowers, Gorgeous Website, Nostalgic Value, Organic Farm, Organic Vegetables, Oxfordshire, Vase Hire, Vase Life


Suppliers

April 5, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Britain is proud to have a number of growers and suppliers of British cut flowers with many of them specialising in particular varieties.

Whether you are looking for a trade flower supplier or want an arrangement for a special event or gift, you are sure to find just what you are looking for…

Allwoods

Stock over 200 different varieties of Dianthus. Also grow Lavenders, Penstemons and other garden plants.
The home of the famous Allwoodii pink, such as Doris, the ideal garden pink with their ability to flower all summer long, the beautiful scent is a delight in any garden, listed as Long Flowering Pinks. Extensive range of laced and Old World pinks some dating back to as early as the 1600′s! and other famous ones like Mrs Sinkins.

Bella and Fifi

Bella & Fifi, floral bonnes vivantes, creating bespoke stunning designs from hand selected seasonal flowers.
Working with locally grown and organic flowers, filling chattering dinner tables, joyous wedding parties and private events with floral sensory indulgence – beautiful, fragrant and poetic blooms.
Whatever the brief or budget, from personal delivery to society ball, with every design combines creativity, love and passion, to stir up a little bit of floral alchemy.

Catkin Flowers

Catkin offers a complete floristry service, with a difference! Based in Lincolnshire, growing their our own flowers in a sustainable way- reducing environmental impact.
Specialise in flowers for weddings, parties or stunning bouquets.

Country Roses

Situated on the border of Essex and Suffolk in the Stour valley in the heart of Constable Country. Fabulous fragrant fresh cut roses. Uniquely, all home grown in the UK ONLY, which means no carbon footprint, no air-miles.
Perfect for weddings, christenings, birthdays, anniversaries, parties, lunches and all imaginable social events.
Over 60 varieties of English garden roses in every colour of the rainbow.

David Austin Roses

David Austin’s cut roses have the wonderful old rose forms and natural charm of garden roses. Delivered as open buds, they gradually reveal their beautiful rosette forms. They are ideal for weddings, celebrations and special events.

EJ Hart

Based in London’s New Covent Garden Market this family run business has been providing quality flowers to hotels, businesses, the trade and flower shops for over 50 years. Have access to a wide range of British grown flowers.

Fentongollan Flower Farm

Exquisite Cornish Daffodils direct from the farm for home and wholesale sales.

Flowers From Cornwall

Wholesale supplier of specialist cut flowers, based just outside Penzance in Cornwall, UK. A fourth- generation family run business sending specialist cut flowers to Covent Garden Market in London for over 100 years and also supply other markets all over the United Kindom.
In recent years they have also sold bulbs and plants locally and are very proud to have been selected to supply The Eden Project as well as local councils.

Green & Gorgeous

Green and Gorgeous is a new kind of flower company. Inspired by the diversity and abundance of the English country garden, they believe that naturally gorgeous flowers come from a real garden offering you flowers from Border to bouquet.
Unusual varieties of traditional English flowers are grown locally and naturally without chemicals or artificial additives, freshly picked and arranged into beautiful bouquets that reflect the ever changing seasons of the garden.
Minimal packaging is needed,as the flowers really speak for themselves, travelling only short distances to local farmers markets. Their freshness guarantees a vase life unmatched by imported flowers.

H.W.Hyde & Son

UK growers of Lilies, Alstromeria and Tulips

Kilcoan Gardens, Co, Antrim

Kilcoan Gardens in Co Antrim, Northern Ireland, specialise in growing and supplying seasonal cut flowers.  A sumptuous collection of blooms and foliage supplied as hand tied posies or larger bouquets.  Seasonal arrangements, potted herbs and perennials compliment the collection.

New Covent Garden Flower Market

New Covent Garden Flower Market is London’s premier wholesale market stocking the widest range of flowers, plants, foliage and sundries to be found anywhere in the UK under one roof. With over 50 companies in the Market the service, choice and quality is unbeaten.

Norfolk Lavender

England’s permier lavender farm.

Snapdragon Garden

Snapdragon’s Garden, growing cut flowers, herbs and vegetables is situated in the Loch Lomond National Park. Stirlingshire.
Supply beautiful hand-tied bouquet of seasonal flowers picked from the cutting garden, carefully conditioned, arranged and sent by overnight courier. A range of craft gifts also available

Sweet Loving Flowers

Producer of cut flowers grown to organic standards based near Machynlleth, in the Dyfi valley in Wales. Flowers are sold at local markets and florists and local shops selling ethical goods. Also supply and arrange flowers for weddings.
Seed sowing is done according to the phases of the moon, a method they believe intensifies flower colour.

The Real Cut Flower Garden

Located on the Herefordshire borders near the Black Mountains. Beautiful bouquets of old-fashioned and unusual blossoms can be delivered to your door looking as though you might have just picked them from your own well-stocked garden.
Seasonal flowers are available from our own gardens from March to November for next day delivery throughout the UK. In winter they work directly with a small Cornish grower to add their early bulbs to their winter and early spring mix.
Wedding flowers are a speciality, glorious natural arrangements for any situation, whether you’re getting married in a cathedral or a field.

The Real Flower Company

British-grown scented garden roses, sweet peas, herbs, eucalyptus and foliage that will fill your senses with their unique look, texture and exquisite scent. From tilling, to planting and harvesting, every bed is tended by hand. All stems are individually selected, cut, prepared and tied by the people who grow them, ensuring the highest quality at evey stage, from planting through to the beautifully finished bunches.

The Traditional Flower Company

Roses and flowers have been carefully selected for their wonderful scent, natural texture, true colour and fabulous shape.
They grow and sell luxury flower gifts and bouquets of the highest quality at working with the British seasons on their Staffordshire farm.
Flower collections will evoke nostalgic memories from the days when old fashioned traditional values were at the heart of British countryside living.

Tregothnan Floristry

Tregothnan Floristry is the first in the UK to be certified with the Soil Association for its organic produce. A few years ago organic floristry seemed ridiculous. The Tregothnan Head Gardener was asked on Radio 4 about edible bouquets and the phones started ringing immediately. There is a demand for sustainable floristry and Tregothnan has been drawing on many centuries of sustainable principles to perfect a modern day technique.
Organic trials with the Soil Association have pioneered new varieties for the UK; sustainable does not mean boring! flowers can be found on sale at Fortnum and Mason in Piccadilly, the foremost retailers of English flowers.

Wiggly Wigglers

All Wiggly Floristry is carried out at Lower Blakemere Farm. They grow many of the flowers used in the cutting patch, hand picking them fresh every day, and what they can’t grow is sourcde from other English growers.
The hand-crafted creations are unique and filled with freshly picked blooms and foliage direct from the English countryside. Expect to see the kinds of flowers and foliage that we all love: tulips, nigella, rose hips, berries, ivy, pussy willow, anemones, stocks, delphiniums, euphorbia, helenium, honesty, sweet peas, corn poppies, rosemary, sunflowers, dill and more.

Filed Under: Suppliers Tagged With: Air Miles, Birthdays Anniversaries, Catkin, Constable Country, Cornwall Uk, Country Roses, Covent Garden Market, Cut Flowers, David Austin Roses, Dinner Tables, Fifi, Flower Farm, Flower Shops, Fourth Generation Family, Garden Plants, Garden Roses, Grown Flowers, Joyous Wedding, Natural Charm, New Covent Garden, New Covent Garden Market, Old Rose, Organic Flowers, Personal Delivery, Quality Flowers, Roses David Austin, Seasonal Flowers, Stunning Designs, Wedding Parties, Wholesale Supplier


Good News for British Flowers

February 28, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

For many years, the UK has been watching the decline of it’s flower farms, wholesalers and florists, as supermarkets source their flowers from abroad but the Wiggly Florist is bucking the trend.

The three sizes of Wiggly Bouquet

San, Heather and Hannah with the three sizes of bouquet.

There is no doubt that consumers have become more aware and interested in where their flowers are coming from.  Sometimes they are interested in supporting local farmers, sometimes they would like to reduce the amount of air miles.

The argument about carbon footprint and the importance of global trade will continue to be debated, but the last survey estimated that less than 10% of flower sales in the UK were actually grown here, so it’s good to see the consumer redressing the balance.

In the last year, Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Daglad reported that exports to the UK were down 20% and in times of recession, luxury products such as flowers are vulnerable.  However, sales of Wiggly Flowers increased by 10% this year and were particularly strong at Christmas.

Wiggly Wigglers sources it’s flowers from their local wholesaler who is tasked with the challenge of buying British grown product.  On top of this the Wiggly gardens at Blakemere produce their own crop of sunflowers, herbs and extras, whilst sourcing their foliage from less than 2Km away, alongside a network of British flower farmers.

Many UK customers are starting to appreciate traditional blooms such as stocks, phlox, delphiniums, sunflowers and pussy willow and florists are looking to Valentines Day, Mothering Sunday and Easter to sustain the upturn for the British grown flower market.

The Good Life Made Easy
From growing vegetables and planting wildflowers, to floristry that doesn’t cost the earth, plus a great range of composters and much more…..Wiggly Wigglers have all the goodies that any budding Tom or Barbara could ever need and even a few eco gifts to help convince Jerry and Margo too!

More information
Wiggly Wigglers website
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Filed Under: Features, Industry Focus Tagged With: Air Miles, Blooms, Carbon Footprint, Composters, Eco Gifts, Flower Farms, Flower Market, Flower Sales, foliage, Global Trade, Growing Vegetables, Luxury Products, Margo, No Doubt, Pussy Willow, Recession, Sunflowers, Uk Customers, Upturn, Wiggly Wigglers, Wildflowers

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