The Real Flower Company blog

Potpourri is a natural way to scent your house with a subtle floral scent and display of everlasting botanicals. However, for years it has been out of favour and considered old fashioned. Increasingly health and environmentally conscious consumers

After the excitement of fabulously scented sweet peas and the glorious flushes of English roses, we are excited to welcome explosions of frothy clouds of colour to the farm as our hydrangeas come into bloom. This stunning plant

Michelin-starred chef Simon Rogan has won multiple awards for his three-course ‘at home’ meal service that celebrates the seasons with the very best ingredients, most of them grown on his Lake District farm, Our Farm. Now you can

Floral designer and author Shane Connolly compared imported mass-produced cut flowers to budget fast food when he spoke to our founder, Rosebie Morton, for British Flowers Week. ‘Fast flowers’ often have a longer vase life, but so often

Our sustainable English flower farm is now in full bloom and we are pleased to announce that our Fresh from the Farm English Flower Box is back! It is filled with sustainably grown seasonal flowers and foliage and

“I’m often asked what my favourite flower is – and for me, it always has to be whatever is seasonal and looking at its best right now,” says our founder Rosebie Morton. “Small but perfectly formed, with a

Our founder Rosebie Morton and our small dedicated team have been growing Sweet Peas in our specialist Sweet Pea nursery in West Sussex for more than twenty-five years. It is always such a special milestone in our year

One of our delights at The Real Flower Company is to help you to find the perfect flowers for your wedding, confident that our sustainably grown blooms and floristry expertise will add joy and beauty to your special

Over the years we have grown and tested many, many Dahlias and we have now curated an edit of our tried and tested favourites – Dahlias that look sensational in the garden or in a large pot and

February or early March is the season for giving roses their major annual prune, but many gardeners find the idea of cutting back their prized plants scary and think of pruning as a secret art shrouded in mystery.

February or early March are the perfect times to plant new roses. At The Real Flower Company, our scented English garden roses are our pride and joy, and we grow some 30,000 bushes on our sustainable Hampshire farm.

The traditional Valentine’s Day gift is a dozen red roses – red for love and passion, and twelve to demonstrate that the giver will think of his or her beloved every month of the year to come. But