- Orchard Farm Flowers

Orchard Farm Flowers

Zoe & Nic sell beautiful, seasonal cut flowers for sale grown here in Beckley in East Sussex. We make our flowers into bouquets for you to give as gifts, buckets of flowers for flower arranging and for your DIY event and in bunches to brighten up your home. Our flowers are grown without chemicals and delivered locally in Beckley, Northiam and Peasmarsh.

The Orchards, Main Street, Beckley, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 6RR

Gift bouquets are available between March and October

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Day 16 - #flowerfarmerama What do you sell? and w

Day 16 - #flowerfarmerama
What do you sell? and who to?

Seasonal flowers, grown here in Beckley, East Sussex. Grown sustainably and without chemicals - available to buy between March and October.

💐Bunches
You can buy flowers in bunches - Friday flowers (as the name suggests) are ready every Friday
💐 Buckets (available in 3 sizes to suit every vase)
Perfect for an event, as a gift or just for you. If you'd like lots of buckets for your event (maybe even a wedding✌) then please contact us to discuss.

💐Flower subscriptions
Regular deliveries enabling you to enjoy the changing seasons. Choose a weekly, fortnightly or monthly delivery.

💐Sympathy arrangements - environmentally friendly designs. Available all year round.

🚚Delivery to Beckley, Northiam, and Peasmarsh - further afield please enquire.

🌼If you're a florist and would like to see what we're growing, then please add yourself to the weekly mailing list on our website.

Day 15 #flowerfarmerama The flower that has specia

Day 15 #flowerfarmerama The flower that has special meaning for you?
There were very few flowers here when we got here, just grass and a few sheep. But over the last six years not only have we planted thousands but lots have come on their own. The sheep have gone from the fields and so the wild flowers have taken over. There are bluebells and aconites, speedwell and orchids and in some places these mad poppies. And with the flowers come the insects, bees and butterflies....all very special.

Day 14 - #flowerfarmerama What would you like cust

Day 14 - #flowerfarmerama
What would you like customers to ask for?

Seasonal, colourful flowers.

We've planted a lot more colour this year as the more colourful ones proved very popular last year. You can have them in bunches, or bouquets or buckets.

Day 13 - #flowerfarmerama What plant are you most

Day 13 - #flowerfarmerama
What plant are you most looking forward to growing / using this season?
Although, as may have been mentioned yesterday, we're really looking forward to having dahlias, there are a whole host of other flowers that we use all season to make our bouquets and fill our buckets. Ammi, larkspur, sweet peas, feverfew, mint, poppies, scabious, agastache, snapdragons - these are the real workhorses of the field, and can be relied on to produce masses of beautiful blooms that add structure and airiness to any arrangement. They don't normally get much of a look in when the talk is of the stars of the floral world, the roses, peonies, ranunculus, but these complimentary flowers ensure that the stars shine brighter.

Day 12 - #flowerfarmerama Your personal favourite

Day 12 - #flowerfarmerama
Your personal favourite flower?
This has to be the dahlia. These flowers were the reason we started flower farming - there are so many different ones to chose from, available in every colour of the rainbow (except blue). They range from very small pompoms, about the size of a 50p piece, perfectly suited for buttonholes to the huge dinner plates - almost a bouquet on their own. You won't normally find dahlias in high street bouquets as they don't travel well and need to be picked when almost fully open making them unsuitable for growing far away.
We grow them in two fields - one full of 'pales' and one of 'brights' - about 60 varieties, 900 plants in total which provide trolley loads of flowers, perfect for making up into bouquets and for putting in mixed buckets.
They flower here from the end of July right through to the frosts in late October/early November when they're dug up and stored.
Photos - #cafeaulaitdahlia #aljodahlia #daisydukedahlia

Day 11 - #flowerfarmerama This week's posts are a

Day 11 - #flowerfarmerama
This week's posts are all about the plants and flowers we're growing - today's post is -
What speciality plants are we growing?
We concentrate on growing flowers that like this part of the UK, in particular this part of east East Sussex, a couple of miles from the sea, on mostly north-facing slopes, often shaded by the chestnut trees in the wood next door and which like heavy clay soil. There is a saying 'right plant, right place' and that holds true for flower farming - if you sow the best seeds, at the right time of year, and then plant them out into conditions that they love then you
can't help but grow fantastic flowers. They may not all have dead straight stems but they will look wonderful and smell fantastic. The roses may have a few thorns but they also have a beautiful scent - as will the peonies, the tulips and the narcissus - to name a few.
Although the season can be extended slightly, with the aid of our greenhouse and polytunnel, most of our flowers are available between the middle of March and the end of October (when we start to get frosts) - we don't try to grow roses in February or peonies in December (May/June for both💐 ). Not forgetting the dahlias (dahlia labyrinth pictured) which are available from July to October - more about them tomorrow.
What we're specialising in, is seasonal, local, scented, fresh flowers for everyone to enjoy. #freshflowersmakemehappy

Day 10 - #flowerfarmerama who inspires you? The i

Day 10 - #flowerfarmerama who inspires you?

The inspiration to start growing British flowers came from a couple of places - joining Flowers From The Farm about 6 years ago - this group of like-minded flower growers, now in its 10th year and with a membership approaching 1000, still provides help, advice and inspiration on a daily basis. And it came from meeting a few passionate growers that showed us what could be done - Georgie Newbury at @commonfarmflowers , Richard Ramsey at @withypittsdahlias and Rachel Siegfried at Green & Gorgeous, to name just a few.
Now inspiration comes from sowing seeds, planting and watching the flowers grow and it comes from the people who buy our flowers week after week and can't wait for the season to start (middle of March..)

#10yearsoffftf

Day 9 - #flowerfarmerama How can your customers fi

Day 9 - #flowerfarmerama How can your customers find you?
Our flower farm is in Beckley, East Sussex TN31. It's up a track off Main Street between two houses and it can be a bit difficult to find. There is a big sign on the gate at the top of the track but unfortunately nothing on the main road.
If you know Beckley, it's opposite where the old petrol station used to be - if you're new to the area it's opposite the new giraffe.🐪 (I know this is a camel but there aren't any giraffe emojis - who knew!)
Use Google Maps - 'Orchard Farm Flowers' and you'll have no problem finding us.
You can find us on Facebook and Instagram and use them to message us.
You can buy flowers from the middle of March to the end of October, but please contact us in the meantime with any inquiries, email zoe@orchardfarmflowers.co.uk or telephone 07905 609878 or via message.
If you'd like to receive one of our newsletters, full of flowery news and information then please subscribe via our website https://orchardfarmflowers.co.uk/
For florists there is a weekly wholesale availability list - email me or use the contact form on the website.
We hope to hold open days this year as well as workshops -fingers crossed

Day 8 #Flowerfarmerama Who/what keeps you company

Day 8 #Flowerfarmerama Who/what keeps you company when you’re working?

Every morning these two have a race up the green lane trying to catch any wildlife that might be about (pheasant and rabbit in this case). They are cocker spaniels and keep us very good company when we're working. Daisy is the brown and white one and Phoebe the black blur. They love being flower farm dogs; there's voles, moles, pheasants, pigeons, rabbits and sometimes deer all wanting to be chased.
#dogsofinstgram #flowerfarming

Day 7 - #flowerfarmerama Who is on your team? We'r

Day 7 - #flowerfarmerama Who is on your team?
We're a very small team - just Nic and me most of the time but with enormous extra help from Kim @kim_c_chapman - she comes here every week regardless of the weather, often very early when its still almost dark, to do picking, planting, making up bunches (even faster than Floret!), holding flowers for photographing and generally being very useful.

#slowflowers ##flowerfarmerflorist #pampas

Day 6 - #flowerfarmerama - Who do you love to work

Day 6 - #flowerfarmerama - Who do you love to work with?

There's a really short answer to this:

Anyone who loves seasonal British flowers grown locally and without chemicals; whether they’re in a bunch, a bouquet or a buttonhole, by the bucketful, in a table arrangement or in a funeral tribute.

#grownineastsussex #slowflowers #lovelocallygrown

Ranunculus looking good in their new caterpillar t

Ranunculus looking good in their new caterpillar tunnel - thank you @carolsiddorn and @businessofflowers for showing us how to make them #pickednotclicked #orchardfarmflowers #sayitwithflowers

Day 5 #flowerfarmerama - what did you learn about

Day 5 #flowerfarmerama - what did you learn about yourself in 2020.
I learned that no matter how many plans you make or how carefully you make them, they (and you) need to be flexible and that flowers make people happy! We learned that we could adapt, be flexible and diversify; we put our flowers by our gate so people walking past could pick up a contactless bunch. We opened an on-line shop making it easier to buy our flowers; started a Friday delivery service (all contactless of course) taking flowers to all sorts of people who couldn't be with their families at special times or to those just wanting to brighten up their homes.

And in December, when Tier 2 forced us to cancel our wreath-making workshops, we provided wreath kits, designing an instruction leaflet and making a 'how-to' video.

We've also learned that flower-farming is the ideal lock-down/socially distancing occupation. You're outside most of the time, you hardly see anyone and there's very little traveling.

#farmerflorist #inspiredbypetals #storiesoftheeveryday

Day 4 - #flowerfarmerama What was your biggest com

Day 4 - #flowerfarmerama What was your biggest compliment in 2020?
Compliments come in many forms; we get many 'thank yous' and lovely e-mails, but the biggest compliment comes from the people who love and understand what we're doing and want to buy our flowers week in week out and can't wait for the new season to start. These include the florists that love to use British flowers and those that buy our flowers for birthdays, anniversaries and to brighten up their homes; asking us to make funeral tributes and new baby congratulations - I think that this Christmas card we received says it all....
"It's been marvellous receiving all my flowers this year. From my birthday ones in April, when you were the only real live person I saw that day, to all the bouquets.....all superb."
#localflowers #eastsussexflowergrowers

Day 3 - #flowerfarmerama how did we get here? We w

Day 3 - #flowerfarmerama how did we get here?
We were lucky to find this piece of East Sussex just over 5 years ago. Originally an apple orchard, then rhubarb field and then market garden it had little of the infrastructure we needed to grow flowers. Since then we've created 6 planting areas, 1 for annuals, 1 for foliage and shrubs, 1 for more permanent plants like peonies, 1 for vegetables and 2 for dahlias - we love dahlias! - all rabbit proofed. We've also added a poly tunnel, mended and waterproofed the two barns, built a flower shed, a solar pump for the well and laid a watering system. We've planted over 100 trees, many metres of native hedges and created a wild flower meadow. And we grow flowers...
#eastsussex #winterjobs #myeveryday

Day 2 - #flowerfarmerama - a day in your life...

Day 2 - #flowerfarmerama - a day in your life...

Winter days, like this one, are spent planning and trying not to buy too many new plants and seeds. Every day brings a new seed catalogue and with it a promise of beautiful blooms. Planning involves sitting in front of a computer looking at last year's records - which flowers were the most popular, which should we have more of/less of, which should be split to make more or completely removed as they didn't get as tall as promised and are taking up precious space??
I have all this on a spreadsheet which shows week by week how many flowers we sold of each variety we grew. It shows when each variety was planted, if it was a seed when it germinated, how long it took to flower and how many weeks we picked it for. So now that I know which flowers our customers love best, I can plan when to sow and plant to make sure the plants are grown at the best time of the year to ensure they give the best flowers.
In contrast, summer days start with picking - we start early, before the sun gets up and it gets too hot. We cut the flowers into cool buckets of water and take them too the barn to rest and condition. After a few hours they are ready to sort into orders - arranged into buckets or made into bouquets. They are then collected or delivered, all leaving the farm within 24 hours of being picked.
#grownnotflown
#britishflowers
#flowersofinstagram
#eastsussex
#ryebusiness
#localflowers
#nochemicals
#shoplocal
#flowersubscriptions
#flowersfromthefarm
#eastsussexflowergrowers
#slowflowers
#fieldtovase
#bouquets

Happy New Year. Today marks the start of the #flow

Happy New Year. Today marks the start of the #flowerfarmerama challenge on social media - flower farmers writing about their love of growing and using seasonal, local flowers. Those of you who've been following us for a while might remember that we did this last year.

Day 1 is - Who are you?

This is us, Nic & Zoe. We're flower farmers - we run a cut flower farm near Rye in East Sussex - Orchard Farm Flowers, and for the last 5 years we have been growing cut flowers and selling them to local customers in buckets and bouquets, using them to make arrangements for weddings and funerals and providing them to florists for their shops and events. Our flowers are available from March to October.
Join us over the next month to hear more about how we started, what are plans are for 2021 and how to see and buy our flowers.

#grownineastsussex #britishflowers #gardenflowers #diybuckets #2020brides #grownnotflown #wildflowers #orchardfarmflowers #britishflowergrowers #Flowerfarmerama #usedtobeabeancounter #cutflowerfarm #TN31 #eastsussexflowers #ryebusinesses

Our ‘best of nine’ images of 2020 - flowers gr

Our ‘best of nine’ images of 2020 - flowers grown by us and delivered locally. Favourites are definitely dahlias - no surprise there. A couple of the images are from the January #flowerfarmerama challenge which is going to happen again next month. Thanks to @businessofflowers for organising. Flower farmers everywhere will fill out posts with stories and pictures of what we do.
#flowerfarmerama starts Friday

Last flowers of the year delivered this morning to

Last flowers of the year delivered this morning to help brighten someone’s day tomorrow - thank you to everyone for supporting us through these strange times. Merry Christmas and looking forward to a very flowery 2021. #buylocal #flowerseveryday #britishflowers #seasonal

A selection of some of the photos we’ve had of w

A selection of some of the photos we’ve had of wreaths made up from our kits. We couldn’t go ahead with our workshops so provided kits and a video instead and the results are lovely 😊 #buylocal #doorwreath #notjustforchristmas

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