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Jul 26, 2019

Flower Farmers' Big Weekend - Saga Magazine News

Holland, but some hail from as far away as the fields of South America and Africa. Just Dahlias, Cheshire. As well as the use of chemicals to grow and preserve many of these imports, there is also a significant environmental imprint in the travel miles covered to bring them to our shores. A need to be more eco-friendly is just one reason why the increasing number of British flower growers are slowly taking a portion of the market back, claiming over 12% of it in the last few years. Another reason for the burgeoning success of home-grown blooms is that many of our beloved favourites - snapdragons, stocks, bellflowers and narcissi for instance - don’t travel well, so florists prefer to purchase them from local growers. Scent is another big sell for British growers, whose fragrant posies fly off their stalls at farmers’ markets. Customers are thrilled to be able to buy bunches of deliciously scented lily of the valley, lilac, sweet peas, Damask roses and clove-scented pinks. Grace Alexander Flowers, Somerset This was the experience that Flowers from the Farm founder and Honorary President, Gillian Hodgson of Field House Flowers in Yorkshire, had when she started out. After selling flowers at her gate, she took on a stall at her local farmers’ market and found that people queued up to sniff and buy the bouquets. “Customers reminisced about gardens they had known,” she recalls. “It was obvious that flowers went straight to the heart of everyone and that people believed such seasonal flowers were a thing of the past. I wanted to join an association of other growers: people who were as excited as I was by the possibilities of British flowers. I searched for such an organisation without success, so decided to form one.” Today Flowers from the Farm comprises over 620 members, from Cornwall to Inverness. These passionate growers and florists all champion a return to home-grown seasonal flowers, both to safeguard the environment and to provide British shoppers with the charm and scent of traditional blooms. The Flower Farmers’ Big Weekend 16-18 August; entry prices vary, flowersfromthefarm.co.uk; #flowerfarmersbigweekend Organic Blooms, Oxfordshire. Five growers to visit during The Flower Farmers’ Big Weekend Picking Posies, Lancashire On 17 August, grower Becky Hindley will welcome visitors to see her plot, buy freshly cut flowers and enjoy refreshments. Entry costs £2 and proceeds go to charity. pickingposies.co.uk Far Hill Flowers, Monmouthshire Join grower Justine Scouller on 18 August for a tour of her cutting patch and garden. Buy cut flowers and enjoy refreshments. Entry £5; children go free. farhillflowers.co.uk Howe Farm Flo...

Jul 26, 2019

Tatton Park Flower Show 2019: Tickets, dates, highlights - HouseBeautiful.com

RHS/Tim Sandall Where is it held? The flower show is held on the grounds of Tatton Park, situated in the town of Knutsford, Cheshire in the North West of England. It is just 20 miles from Manchester and 30 miles fro...

Jul 27, 2017

Couple who met laying flowers in tribute to Manchester terror victims ...

Manchester for just a few months working on train carriages at a depot.But he said he and mum-of-two Nicola, who works as a food critic for Cheshire Life, hit it off immediately. 'KILLED BECAUSE HE KNEW TOO MUCH' Dad 'killed son, 13, after lad found disturbing pics of him eating POO while dressed in women's clothes and a nappy' MISSION KIM-POSSIBLE North Korea vows to obliterate the U.S. with nuke strike TOMORROW to bring Kim ‘final victory’ HORRIFYING ORDEAL Girl, 15, raped at train station flags down car for help and is raped AGAIN in Birmingham YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT! Shocking moment huge shark becomes trapped on a fishing boat – and thrashes around in desperate bid to be free 'LEAVE THIS ROOM... F**K SHE JUMPED' Harrowing words of Brit tourist as Benidorm balcony plunge victim Kirsty Maxwell fell to her death from 10th floor tower block MILE HIGH MISS UNmasked Brother defends teacher struck off for having unprotected sex with pupil in a loo on flight home from a school trip - as cops launch investigation He proposed to his new love just 16 days later outside a jeweller’s in the middle of the city’s Moston Market.The couple said the horrific attack at the Ariana Grande concert that led them to meet made them “realise life is short” and spurred them on to seize the moment.She said: “It’s nice to think that out of something so negative, has come something so positive.” Manchester Evening News The couple said the Manchester attack made them realise life is short a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/ne...

Jul 14, 2017

Couple who met laying flowers in tribute to Manchester terror victims get ENGAGED a fortnight later

Manchester for just a few months working on train carriages at a depot.But he said he and mum-of-two Nicola, who works as a food critic for Cheshire Life, hit it off immediately. 'SUPERMAN GOT NOTHING ON ME' Mourners hear Bradley Lowery singing at his own funeral and Jermain Defoe breaks down in tears as thousands attend emotional superhero-themed send-off BEACH BLOODBATH Two dead and four injured after knifeman SWIMS to beach in Egyptian resort of Hurghada and attacks tourists 'HE WAS HOLDING HIS FACE IN AGONY' Witnesses tell of horror as London acid attack victim suffered 'catastrophic' injuries when two muggers on a moped carried out FIVE assaults in just 90 minutes FAST AND FURIOUS Clingy girlfriend jailed after she chases police car carrying her terrified boyfriend who cops were helping to flee after he tried to dump her CLUCKING HELL Tesco recalls chicken salads after germs which cause fever and diarrhoea are detected DASH-SCAM Dashcam footage reveals bizarre moment biker rams moped into car before flinging himself on to the windscreen in 'cash for crash bid' He proposed to his new love just 16 days later outside a jeweller’s in the middle of the city’s Moston Market.The couple said the horrific attack at the Ariana Grande concert that led them to meet made them “realise life is short” and spurred them on to seize the moment.She said: “It’s nice to think that out of something so negative, has come something so positive.” Manchester Evening News The couple said the Manchester attack made them realise life is short div class="article__media-img-container open-gallery" dat...

Feb 23, 2017

Murphy urges consumers to buy domestic flowers, plants

Sylvia Nichols, who manages the florist department at Cheshire Nursery, said 90 percent of the cut flowers sold at the business are from overseas, Nichols said she liked to sell more locally sourced flowers, but Cheshire Nursery’s suppliers import heavily,“I think its because some of the American companies have operations overseas,” she said.But a 2002 Society of American Florists report found that producers of cut flowers generally are not integrated with foreign firms and that there is little direct foreign ownership of U.S. cut flower firms.“Few U.S. cut flower producers operate abroad,” the report said in part. “One exception is a large (unidentified) U.S. multinational firm that ... acquired 790 hectares of farms in cut flower production in Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico. The company owns its own aircraft service that transports flowers from locations in Latin America to its recently constructed, 328,000-square-foot processing, warehousing and shipping facility in Miami. This producer serves as grower, importer, marketer, and distributor.”Cronquist said California Cut Flower Commission launched a program in 2014 in which participating companies certified they were selling American-grown flowers. In addition, the group annually lobbies the congressional flower caucus in an effort to get legislation passed that is more friendly to American growers.“Flowers are one of the most profitable crops for small-acre farms,” he said. “As the movement for more locally sourced food has grown, so has the awareness of flower produced here in the United States.”Call Luther Turmelle at 203-680-9388. (Middletown Press)

Sep 14, 2016

Ex-delivery driver opens her own florist company, Elise Floral, in Cheshire

CHESHIRE >> Elise Samson got her start in the floral industry as a delivery driver. “I needed a job while I was in high school,” said Samson, 36. “So, I went to this floral shop in Litchfield and ask the owner at the time if they hiring,” she said. “The owner said they were looking for a delivery driver and they hired me.” Flowers of Distinction was her first job and the shop is still in business. Advertisement Now, after years of hands-on experience, education and building self-confidence, Samson launched Elise Floral, a statewide full service wedding and event florist company. But unbeknownst to Samson, while working as a delivery driver, she thought the job would be easy. “I had to clean and process the flowers, there is a whole procedure that I didn’t know,” she said. “But in my mind during that time, I was thinking I can rock tunes in my car and deliver pretty flowers; it didn’t work that way.” Over the course of the next couple of months, according to Samson, she was... (New Haven Register)