About

Hello, I’m Lisa and I live in a small hamlet about 4 miles from Cirencester, so right in the heart of the Cotswolds. I have always been interested in gardens and gardening but until we moved here some 10 years ago I did not have the opportunity to establish a cutting patch, let alone a cutting garden.

My business, like many others, started in lockdown. A friend’s daughter was getting married in the summer of 2020 and I had been asked to grow flowers for the church. Needless to say the wedding was postponed but that meant I had lots of flowers on my hands. I couldn’t bear the thought of them going to waste. I was fast running out of vases and there’s a limit to how many you can just give away! A florist friend suggested I sell them to local florists which is exactly what I did and I haven’t looked back.

Now I have a few local florists that I supply regularly during my season. They are so talented and create amazing arrangements and floral displays, championing my locally grown flowers. I try to surprise and delight them with things that they’ve either not seen or used before and my flowers are always top quality.

I am getting a reputation locally for my country style flowers and supply brides or church flower arrangers with buckets of blooms. I also take orders for hand tied bouquets and flower subscriptions.

I decided from the start I would only use peat free compost and I don’t spray with anything that’s not natural or environmentally friendly. My cutting garden is a haven for birds, bees and other insects as well as those pesky slugs and snails! I’m keen to be as sustainable as I can by reusing and recycling sensibly. I have chosen bio-degradable packaging, not cellophane, and my emphasis is on being local to cut down on unnecessary ‘flower miles’. Why would you buy flowers grown in far flung places, using gallons of precious water and flown thousands of miles when you could just buy beautiful, seasonal, perfectly imperfect British blooms?

This is my third season as a ‘proper’ full time flower grower having taken the plunge and given up my job in education - I do still miss the children - but so far I’m loving it!