March tour of the flower farm... with fashion tips for flower farmers (and all gardeners!)
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Join flower farmer and florist Georgie Newbery of Common Farm Flowers between Bruton and Wincanton in Somerset as she gives you a tour of her flower farm on a bitterly cold mid March day. You can feel spring is round the corner, but it's cold enough for gloves and a great many kidney-warming layers (see the flower farming chic section of this clip.) Starting off with layering up, through bottom-of-the-fridge soup prep, round the wildflower patches, via crab apples, frogspawn, and ending up at greenhouse and tunnel with dahlias and seedlings to prick out, this is a typical late winter/early spring weekend morning here at Common Farm.
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And odd socks because one must keep oneself amused! 😂❤💕🤣🧦
Our very cute flower farmer. Thanks for sharing.
thankyou xxx
*Niche thrills* 🤣🤣🤣👍🏻💕
I loved that too 😂
well you know what I mean x
Fashion tips and niche thrills...and they were delicious... and so was this clip!
thank you x
I love your videos such a real lady!! Totally how I like my friends.
Thank you so much!! x
Oh gosh! "Sides to middle" that brings back happy memories. When I wriggled into my parents bed as a child I always woke with a stripe down me! Such happy days.
Great tour as always thanks. 🌻🌼🌿
Thankyou x
Love the living tree high rise accommodation.xxx🐝🐝🐝
Thankyou x
I’m in central Illinois. I wear three layers just like you. The inside camisole is critical I found for keeping my back and kidneys warm!
yes the layering very important x
my grandma had a very strong view on garment pockets - 'no good if can't fit a cucumber' (she was self sufficient and always out in her garden)
your Grandma v wise x
I always find a hat is a must on these bitterly cold days as well as the layers . Isn't winter dragging on this year . Thanks for the tour, it was lovely 😍
You got that right! - where is my hat in this clip? #fail x
Love the red doll 💕
I’m going to start wearing my wool vests and sweaters more in the garden. I love your red sweater and I love yours and your mom’s happy attitude, how blessed you are.
thank you x
Lol....I haven't wore matching socks in years. Thank you for the tour and sharing your love of wildlife. God bless
you're welcome Catherine x
i absolutely adore you.
the challenge is to make a living AND love the teeny beauties x
Lovely that you mentioned Merry People Boots..they are located here in Melbourne Australia..making my purchase soon ready for our winter..lovely tour of your property to see it in slumber is a good thing ready for spring…till next time..❤
I love mine x
Oh too much fun!! My wacky combo garden outfits are Flower Farmer chic!!😂❤
They are x
Yes! Yes! Funny socks ☺️🎉🎉👍. I always wear funny socks 😊. Thank you for the fashion show. And our bedrooms look alike. I’ve got quilts on my bed I made myself. Loved the gardentour, thank you ☺️🙏🏻❤️🌻🌳
you're welcome x
Got the tank, glad I’m not the only washing my lambs wool every six weeks x
seems crazy to wash clothes as often as people do x
@@theflowerfarmer If you are wearing lots of layers you don’t need to wash your sweaters after every wash. Apart from that it ruins the sweater. It’s only the laundry retailers that benefit.
I really enjoyed the fashion show and seeing your bedroom. It looks like a bedroom where one could get a wonderful night's sleep. No electronics! I no longer spend money on clothes but I did spend a pretty penny on a new pruning tool last year. Now I've spent a surprising penny on a Swiss Made sharpening tool. You would think it was made of gold. Any chance you would do a demo on how you sharpen and care for your tools? I could use the help.
I'll ask Fabrizio to do a sharpening clip - he doesn't mind his hands being filmed x
Thanks, that would be great.
"Never go anywhere without your brand on your breast" Haha, I love it, now off to order some t shirts!
go for it x
Great tour of your property! I love your style! xo
thank you x
Nothing like an English spring with wild flowers You have a beautiful farm
thank you x
Oh snap! I binge listen to “The Rest Is History” and “Not Just The Tudors “ and various other history podcasts while in the polytunnel. (Sometimes while working and sometimes while sitting under the little black cat, the allotment folk must be convinced I am a witch with my familiar). Love your ruffly chambray shirt and that vest is to die for! X
Ooh not just the tudors you say… *makes note*
I loved the tour around your flower farm, it would be lovely to see it again in a month just to see how it's changed, if you have time.Y
Your husband is a real treasure, his so thoughtful! ❤😉🐥🐛
I do a tour for the 'tube every month so I'll definitely do one in April x
I do love your clips! And I shall find my way into the garden which is still covered in snow here in London, Ontario. The bugle weed is thriving in my border despite the cold - so time to start weeding.
there's always a little weeding to do x
I have started using a hand warmer ( usb and charger) I keep it in my pocket. They are amazing. I have Raynauds etc so its marvellous. I am a Care Home gardener x Love your "happy" clothes x
As a fellow person with Raynaud’s, cool weather gardening can be a true struggle! I regularly use hand and toe warmers too, otherwise I only last about 20 minutes before I’m miserable and unable to function. 😂
@@hollyjasinski7207 I had used the click gel ones before but this little gadget is wonderful. My daughter bought it for me at Christmas. Such a boon. Stay warm and enjoy your gardens x
sounds very interesting - I don't have Raynaud's, but when my hands get cold it's a miserable business x
@@theflowerfarmer Great little gadget. Yep, cold hands or cold feet are just insufferable. Take care 🙂
Excellent video, loving the reference to TRIH podcasts, the two on Lady Jane Gray are hilarious x
thank you x
I will patch your vest with some very fun sashiko if you send it to me in the US . Probably not cost efficient but it would be so fun to do this for you!
I follow a sashiko artist on instagram - It's such a fantastic way to make fabric stronger and longer lasting. I think I should have a go myself x
Thank you for all your advice love watching your posts. We can’t leave clumps of wood or branches around because we have some of the most dangerous snakes in the world and they would love a home like that, too risky. Cheers from down under Melbourne Australia
luckily we only have shy and not poisonous grass snakes here - I remember seeing a brown snake fall out of a tree and just miss landing on a person in rural Victoria once - an event I can still see clearly 35 years later x
Your style is the best!
thank you x
Sides to middle sheets I know what you say my mum used to do that and turn collars.xxxxxx🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Wise Mum x
Thank you for the tour Georgie. I've been loving your cost red jumper ❤️ Yes always keeping the kidneys warm here too with thermal layers and now I have a battery heated body warmer...just fabulous. I find it really reassuring to go around a professional garden and see that it too is sleeping and mostly brown. This means I'm not doing anything wrong! It's easy to lose heart on the colder days but you're really helping my motivation. Those wild orchids...I have them in my local area and I'm hoping to introduce them to my small " meadow" area where I have my phone, my teasels and my shade loving wildflowers. Thanks again ! 😁
Please tell us the name of your body heater! And what parts does it heat? Torso? Sounds delightful! Thank you!
battery heated body warmer sounds interesting x
totes agree x
Please could you do an episode about Fabrizio? I realise he is camera shy. Could you talk about his connection to your land. I realise you have talked about his orchid meadows etc. i would like to know more about what drives him, does he have a separate occupation? What is his skill set/experience/ what are his goals? What would he like to see evolve on your land in the coming years?
I have been to one or two flower farm visits and been the only “man”. It is partly why I haven’t joined Flowers from the Farm… I would love to hear a little more of his perspective even if he doesn’t want to speak on camera. I love women of course, yet I feel a little imposter syndrome because everything I am able to engage with on the subject of small scale regenerative flower farming involves women. Which of course I salute and it has been a beautiful education for me.
In the current climate. That said. Is there a part for “men” to play in the small scale regenerative British flower farming movement ?
I'll ask him - but he really does like to keep out of the social media - I get what you say though - of the hundreds of people I've taught about flower farming over the years maybe I've had fifty men join my sessions while hundreds of women are my students. Don't be put off. Of course there's a part for all people to play in small scale regenerative farming, flowers included. You just have to choose the part you wish to play and go for it. Will you be a grower, a grower/florist, a wholesaler, specialise in edible flowers, a person with a year-round season, someone who focuses on their summer months, sell locally, or through an online wholesale market site delivering further afield... so many options. Look up James at Flowers by Clowance and Paul at BJ Richards and you'll see you won't be the only fellow growing and dealing in cut flowers. x
@@theflowerfarmer thank you. Very helpful. I will certainly take a look at they/them!
@@Rootcraft_UK good luck Andrew - the more people growing flowers the better in my view x
Your videos are a treat! Love the fashion show. I always wear my worst, ratty clothes to garden, but you’ve convinced me otherwise. Now I won’t have to hide in the avocado trees when the neighbors walk by 😅. I’m a quilter so I love the beautiful quilts, and the soup looked delish. Love from California
glad you enjoyed - and hello California x
Charming. Thank you.
you're welcome x
What is that first layer? Vest? What is it made of? Is it a thermal? Undershirt? Long or short sleeve? I’m in the US. We don’t use that term. Love your property!!
yes I think in the US it would be an undershirt - just a little warm top you wear under your shirt - keep your kidneys warm - here it's a vest - an old fashioned thing but underrated I think x
Could I suggest planting a few other excellent cut flowers in your woodland that would take care of themselves: Polygonatum (Solomon's seal), and variety, but the variegated ones make exquisite fillers of tulip bouquets. Convallarial majalis 'Bridal choice', the largest form of Lily fo the valley, bred by florists to have stems long enough for floristry. Leucojum aestivum 'Gravetye giant', a long-stemmed, large-flowered form of the summer snowflake.
And Tellima grandiflora…… ground cover of geranium phaem a great cut flower and can be ‘ harvested ‘ twice a year ,and a good range of colours . A pretty filler.
All on the list for when the deer fencing is done - I’ve taken a risk with these hellebores - we are about to fence the whole 7 acres against deer and rabbits and then I’ll see about more dry shade planting x
Keep your kidneys warm! Oh my. My mom used to tell me that. :)
wise Mom x
Did you catch it? I blew you a kiss (from soggy California).
hello California x
Don't you ever get moths eating your precious woollens and satin/silk eiderdowns ? we bag are beloved clothing and replace pure wool carpets with laminate flooring! Best Wishes .
they do eat my jumpers - I have to put the jumpers in the freezer to get rid of them x