With sustainability luxuriously on the global agenda , prime from the Farm are once again urging romantics to think local and seasonal when buy flowers this Valentine ’s Day . Locally - grown flush that blossom in their natural season carry a fraction of the carbon footprint of hothoused imported blooms . They are quite simply the most sustainable flowers that money can corrupt .
Hannah Jackson of the Garden of Evie in South Yorkshire is offering overbold heart and soul chaplet of seasonal foliage and fresh - cut flowers . Beth and Simon Hillyard of Cornish Blooms are bunching impertinent , perfumed narcissi and reinvigorated tulip for Valentine ’s Day , whilst in Hampshire , Featherstone ’s English Flower Company are offering smart British tulip sweetness in pinks , subdued red ink , and arrant E. B. White from £ 30 . In a going from the classical hand - tie , Harriet Mullins of Sweetpeas and Sunflowers in Cornwall is create intricate floral jewelry .
Debbie Scott of East Lothian Flower Farm voted in as Co - Chair of prime from the FarmAt the flush from the Farm AGM on 15 January 2025 , Scotch flower granger , Debbie Scott of East Lothian Flower Farm , was vote in as the raw Co - Chair following 3 year as Scotland coordinator . Debbie will play alongside fellow Co - Chair , Meg Edmonds , and is take up the rein from Carole Patilla of Tuckshop Flowers , who had complete her two class in the use .
The 2022 Flowers from the Farm online conferenceSustainability : from Soil to sales event was the topic of this week ’s 2022 Flowers from the Farm Annual group discussion with over 400 members of the association participating online across the UK . Whilst Flowers from the Farm members are generally acknowledged as offer the most sustainable flowers on the market - local , seasonal and mostly plain - grown - cultivator are keen to larn what measure they can implement to further reduce their carbon paper footprint .
Informative , thought process - provoking , entertaining , and inspiring in equal measure , the group discussion program included Professor Richard Bardgett of the University of Manchester on the Science of Soil Health , Professor Dave Goulson from the University of Sussex on Increasing Biodiversity and Beneficial Insects , and Jo Thompson of Wye Valley Flowers on Delivering Sustainable Practices on your Plot .
In conversation with Carol Siddorn of Carol ’s Garden in Cheshire , flower husbandry pioneer , Rachel Siegfried of Green & Gorgeous in Oxfordshire , discuss how she has made the conscious determination to grow more perennials to make her bloom business more sustainable . Becky Crowley explored the benefit of perennials as a cutting crop , talking about her experience of creating a 24 - acre perennial cut garden at Floret Flowers in the US and modernise the famed one - acre contract garden at Chatsworth House .
bloom from the Farm preach sustainable floristry techniques and members reject the consumption of floral froth for its harmful environmental properties . In a beautiful flick for the conference , Sarah Statham of plainly by Arrangement demonstrated how to make a Sustainable Floral archway of fresh and dried flowers without the use of floral froth .
