What a great response to our British Bloomers in Birmingham. Last week the West Mids members of Flowers from the Farm adorned the BBC Gardeners world live at the NEC with our glorious display of British grown flowers. Our chief in charge ... [Continue Reading]

Here's a selection of beautiful flowers and foliage grown on our patch in June. It's almost the end of the month but if you're planning a wedding or event for June next year, these will all be ... [Continue Reading]

I have been a British flower grower for a year now! I also still work part time and I often get asked what I've been up to when I return to work in the office after the weekend. So I thought I'd write a dairy of my week to share. My work for The ... [Continue Reading]

My seed sowing started last autumn sowing hardy annuals directly into the soil. Things like Cornflowers, Nigella, Ammi Majus and all those sorts of favourites that people always love. This has worked really well, they’ve been in the ground all winter ... [Continue Reading]

It's been a busy few weeks, I've managed to get out to do some gardening after spending the winter planning, it was good to actually get stuck in. I don't have acres of space so I need to make the most of my main patch, organising the layout well so ... [Continue Reading]

The Flower Patch was imagined and created by me (Maria), in 2014 after realising that I could make gardening a way of life. Working in the garden makes me appreciate the changing seasons even more; it's a joy to pick flowers and immediately create ... [Continue Reading]

After spending a week in Finland, visiting my son who is studying there this year, I now appreciate the relatively mild winters we have here in the UK and we can already look forward to seeing the first signs of the spring flowers emerging. We ... [Continue Reading]