Stories

The small things . . .

The small things . . .

I’ve always loved watching BBC Springwatch for all those fluffy fledglings and serious nature reality checks with Chris Packham and his charts. Bu...

The “Wow Factor” floral crown

Thought you might like to hear the story of how we got to build a giant floral crown for RHS Malvern Spring Show in May this year. It was such an h...

Four Seasons Flower Farming

We honestly planned to get a program of workshops started on the farm in our first year, but as we all know, events got in the way and dreams of sh...

Mother Christmas

We are just about to enter the first proper winter trading in our shop in Highgate and our fresh cut flowers season is coming to an end. The last ...

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness

Because of global warming, September is a much warmer month than it would have been when John Keats wrote his best-known poem, Ode to Autumn, over ...

Beautiful, Ethical and Sustainable

Behind the scenes we are working on new products. Always with our mantra words - Beautiful, Ethical and Sustainable - ringing in our ears. We are m...

Doing the Right Thing

“Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching…” With all the corporate greenwashing going on at the moment, I wanted to take the opp...

Weeder Women

In Shakespeare’s day, if you were trying to keep a large garden in order, you could hire yourself a ‘Weeder Woman.’ There are written accounts of s...

Tulip Fever

We love a tulip at Electric Daisy Flower Farm. We plant thousands of bulbs in late autumn to stock our flower shop the following spring. As ethical...

May Flowers

Summer is just around the corner, but there is still time to sow flowers for your cutting patch. Here are some of the “easy-to-grow from seed” annu...

Starting out with Pot Plants

If you are just beginning your adventures in gardening, as many people have during lockdown - apparently, it’s the second most popular past time af...

The Hive of Activity

According to the dictionary a Hive is ‘a place in which people are busily occupied’, or it’s a Beehive. We do have actual honey bees working on the...

Did you know the Easter Bunny is really a Hare?

Have you ever wondered who the Easter Bunny actually is, or asked yourself where he came from? Well for starters, he is not even a rabbit, she is...