VLOG | Cutting Garden Tour, Tulips & Rainy Studio Days
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
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In our April vlog Jess gives a guided tour of our cutting garden in Hampshire where we grow cut flowers to use in weddings, events, flower arranging workshops and online classes and she shares our journey to becoming self-sufficient gardener-florists, providing all the flowers for our London studio. Jess explains the layout of the garden and how it has been expanded over the years to include a kitchen garden, three polytunnels and a perennial garden. Alonf the way there are some beautiful, colourful tulips are flowering alongside lots of other lovely spring bulbs and corms - Muscari, Fritillaria, Ranunculus, Anemones and Narcissi.
In the studio we begin filming a new series of online classes which will be released later this year.
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Difficult to express how much I enjoyed this video. What a labor of love your garden is …absolutely beautiful.
Thank you so much, that's very kind of you xx
What a joy. Thanks for sharing.
Our pleasure! xx
So beautiful thank you for sharing. Your videos are like an informative meditation of sorts.
So glad you enjoy them, thank you for letting us know xx
Really enjoyed this video. It was great to look around your plot. I grow cut flowers too so it's always nice to have a look at other growers plots. Thank you 😊
Thank you Sarah! Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for letting us know x
Thank you for sharing your garden, I really enjoyed it. I would be curious to know how big is your plot and how many plants you grow, more or less, for each varietes to be self sufficient for your wedding events.
Hello! We grow on a quarter acre plot just to supply our studio - we don’t sell wholesale. It is very intensively planted, I don’t know exactly how many varieties but it is in the hundreds. We grow quite small amounts of each variety but our work tends to include small amounts of lots of different things. I hope that helps! x
Thanks for showing us around. I wonder if you could share a bit about the costs setting this up? Do you have some great financial tips about your experience as a flower growing business? Many thanks in advance 🌱
In our experience and having had conversations with lots of other small-scale flower growers we would say that the financial investment tends to be very specific to each business - ie who are you growing for, what, how and where you grow, what the size of your business is or what size would you like to grow it to… With regards to our growing operation we thought it most sensible to start small and invest some of our profit each year into expanding the site in line with the scale of our business, how many projects we were taking on and what we could accurately predict our turnover would be each year. If in doubt start small, the great thing is that you can grow a LOT of flowers in a small space! x
Stunning garden, thank you for sharing it with us! Question: how far is your plot from your home or studio business? How often are you there, and do you have help there as well? With greenhouses etc would imagine they need to be opened and closed etc each day? Are you close enough to do that yourself?
Thank you! The garden is around 70 miles away from our studio which is in London (the land we grow on is rented from my father-in-law who lives nearby). The labour management is more or less 2-3 days a week (more in the summer, less in the winter) and we have extra freelance gardening help for big days when we have a lot to get done. We grow more than enough to be self sufficient in our studio work and don't have any further plans to expand, only to further improve and layer! Hope that helps x
One other question for you: Do you feel the need to expand the garden even further or are you now set?
This was so interesting, thank you! Do you grow enough to fully sustain your floristry, or do you buy in from other growers too? x
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! We are fully self sufficient now but we bought in from other growers for many years as we were building and expanding our patch and if we have a large event where we need a lot of a particular colour that we’re short of or a specific rose that we don’t have enough of, for example, we can source from a selection of great local farms that we are lucky enough to have nearby. x
Really enjoyed this, i notice frittilaria persica plants at the end. Do u have much luck with them? We got 1 flower off 30 second year plants. Based in south ireland, i wonder if its not cold enough? Thank u for sharing! Taylor - Between the Briars, Co. Cork Ireland
Thank you! Yes they've done well with us, the only one's we've had a problem with were planted in part-shade. x
Hi there beautiful do you Fertilize the flower beds if so with what
We apply an organic mulch every year over the winter which breaks down into the soil, we use a seaweed feed and throughout the growing season we spray many of the plants and beds with activated EM (effective microorganism) liquid feed x
I'd love to know what some of the shrubs you grow are, I need some structure in my garden and want to use shrubs that are good for flower arranging too.
Hello! Our favourites are pittosporum for bouquets, ninebark for the colour and spiraea for great shapes x