Farms

  1. Top 10 Greenery & Berries to Dress Your Home This Christmas & Where to Find Them

      Autumn is always a magical time on our sustainable English flower farm as the hues of summer fade into a rich palette of deep red, muted pinks, flame, terracotta, magenta and gold. It’s also the perfect time to plan ahead and preserve berries and foliage to decorate your home for Christmas. So we’ve put together a guide of our...
  2. Early Summer on our Farms

    Early Summer on our Farms

    The Start of Spring “Hesperis (sweet rocket) for me heralds the start of the English spring and summer. 2018 has been a wonderful year for Hesperis – its light honeyed scent fills the air as we pick each morning,” says Rosebie, our founder and flower farmer. This year Hesperis came into flower in mid May and kept going through until...
  3. The Truth About Organic Flowers

    The Truth About Organic Flowers

    Rosebie, our founder and flower farmer, has always had a mission to grow flowers as nature intended. She planted her first rose bushes for cutting in 1992 and is adamant that it is our duty to leave the land we farm and the world around us in a better condition than we found it. Each year we increase our efforts...
  4. Where To Buy Sustainable Flowers Outside The English Season

    Where To Buy Sustainable Flowers Outside The English Season

    Our founder and flower farmer Rosebie Morton launched The Real Flower Company to reintroduce local English flowers, grown as nature intended, to the UK flower market. People are therefore often surprised when they discover that when English roses are not in season, our roses are imported from our sister farm in Kenya. We caught up with Maggie Hobbs, our Kenyan...
  5. Harvest on the Farm – October

    Harvest on the Farm – October

    As we head into the colder mornings, darker evenings and familiar crunch of leaves underfoot our sustainable farm in Hampshire takes on a different colour palette. Some of our roses are still producing beautiful blooms, especially the delicate and fabulously scented Margaret Merrill but looking around the flowers and foliage everything has taken on the gorgeous hues of copper, orange...
  6. September on our English Farm

    September on our English Farm

    Glorious Grasses Rob our Farm Manager has trialed at least 30 different types of grass and said that even the varieties which grow easily in the garden are not necessarily good for cutting. After several years he has whittled the selection down to six really good cutting grasses which last well, don’t drop their seed and are good for floral...
  7. How to dry flowers

    How to dry flowers

    As we reach the heady height of English flower season, now is the perfect time to begin to dry flowers. Decorations made from dried and preserved flowers are making a come back. A new school of dried flower enthusiasts are reinventing the way we treat dried flowers and modern Christmas decorations and table centrepieces incorporating dried flowers are set to...
  8. Countdown to the 2017 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

    Countdown to the 2017 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

    Floral Safari 10th February As soon as ‘Floral Safari’ is announced as the theme for this year’s Chelsea in Bloom, our event designer Hana Moss grabs her sketchbook, pen and watercolours and sets to work. “The minute I heard about the brief I knew what we should do,” says Hana. “The Real Flower Company is known for our quintessentially English...
  9. News from our Kenyan flower farm Tambuzi

    News from our Kenyan flower farm Tambuzi

    Maggie Hobbs, and her husband Tim, own Tambuzi , a Fairtrade farm in Kenya, where they grow the scented garden roses, herbs and foliage that appear in our bouquets outside of English season. This year, our new florist shop is taking part in Chelsea in Bloom, and embracing the event’s Safari theme. Maggie will be providing us with stems to...

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