I am so delighted to have been part of the Flowers From The Farm team that worked together to grow and arrange the flowers that went on our first Chelsea stand and that it was awarded a Gold Medal! It has been such an exciting adventure and although at times it looked like the winter would never end and the flowers would never grow, nature prevailed, the spring came and the flowers grew. 100 members snipped the best of the best of their blooms and send them to Chelsea. Coverage of our journey and some of the members stories will be shown on the BBC 1 at 7pm on Wednesday 23rd June or you can follow either me or Flowers From The Farm on Instagram or Facebook.
Flowers From The Farm goes to The Chelsea Flower Show
The Chelsea Flower Show 2018
This Friday around 100 members of Flowers From The Farm will be snipping our flowers to send down to London for our first display at The Chelsea Flower Show. We have a prime location in the centre of the floral marquee and we will be using solely flowers from our plots around the country to show case beautiful British blooms. The display will be unique as this year there will be no floral foam used whatsoever.
My excitement levels are rising as I'm very proud to be sending some of my home grown flowers for the display from my cutting garden here in Lincolnshire.
I'm planning to cut Irises, Sweet Rocket, Cornflowers, Euphorbia and Geums to send to the show and will be out with my scissors tonight carefully selecting the very best stems to be part of the display.
Like many other growers I'm heading to the show next week and will hopefully be able to share some photos of the Flowers from the Farm stand with you in a future post.