Growing Archives - Orchard Farm Flowers

9 steps to starting seeds indoors

by ZoeGrowing 22/02/202423/02/2024Comments are Disabled

Open Day 2019

by ZoeGrowing, Open day 19/08/201901/09/2019Comments are Disabled

Thanks to everyone that came to our Open Day yesterday – we had over 50 visitors and raised almost £100 for the Village Hall kitchen refurbishment. Lots of lovely comments …

Dahlias to match the weather

by ZoeDahlias, Flowers from the Farm, Growing 24/07/201901/09/2019Comments are Disabled

Taratahi Ruby starting to bloom in the heat

Blossom time

by ZoeBunch of Flowers, Growing 26/04/2019Comments are Disabled

There’s a big storm forecast for this evening so I’ve been out cutting blossom for tomorrow’s flower buckets in case it all blows away in the night!!

Pretty in pink

by ZoeFlower arranging, Growing, Ranunculus 23/04/2019Comments are Disabled

Aren’t these ranunculus just lovely. They are the peonies of spring and ready now for picking – for weddings, for events or just for you

Sowing seeds

by ZoeGrowing, Pests 20/04/201920/04/2019Comments are Disabled

Its a seed sowing and pricking out day today. We sow seeds in succession every 10 days throughout the season. We sow lots of different seeds but not too …

Mothers Day

by ZoeBunch of Flowers, Dahlias, Growing, Tulips 04/04/201920/04/2019Comments are Disabled

For Mother’s Day last weekend, here in East Sussex, we picked tulips, scented narcissi, flowering currant, tonnes of anemones, rosemary, plum blossom, hornbeam and other foraged foliage. They all went …

Peony gardinia

by NicGrowing, Single Blooms 02/06/201802/06/2018Comments are Disabled

Our peonies are only in their second year so we can only pick half of them. A shame for our customers but nice for us as we get to …

We DO Want to go to Chelsea!

by NicFlower arranging, Growing 16/05/201816/05/2018Comments are Disabled

On May 19th a group of East Sussex & Kent flower farmers,- namely Orchard Farm Flowers (yes, that’s us), Blacker and Moore, Anna’s Country Flowers, Blue Hen Flowers, Chambers Farm …

Rye News!

by NicGrowing 04/09/2017Comments are Disabled

Belatedly we discover that we featured in a nice article in the Rye News a couple of weeks ago. The link to the whole thing is here: http://www.ryenews.org.uk/news/locally-grown-not-flown