FRESHER THAN FREDDIE’S
The season starts with scented Narcissi, Tulips and Anemones in spring then, as the weather gets warmer, the Peonies and Roses begin. The beginning of June sees the true start of the summer flowers: it’s full of Larkspur, Snapdragons and Alliums. The Dahlias follow into August and September and continue until the first October frosts.
Whenever you come during the year there’ll be something interesting and the selection will change naturally every week.
Our season runs from around Easter to October and begins slowly as the weather warms. Early spring is difficult to predict and regular booked sessions don’t begin until mid-May. Pop-up sessions in April and early May will be advertised on Instagram and Facebook when available.
I’m Gill Hodgson and I began growing flowers here on the farm back in 2009, selling them at the gate and at Driffield Farmers’ Market and it was there, face to face with the customer, that I saw the potential for a revival of British flowers.
In 2011, to help more people become flower farmers, I set up Flowers From The Farm Ltd, a not-for-profit company aimed at increasing the market for home-grown flowers and giving new growers the information they needed to start their own businesses. FFTF now has almost a thousand members growing flowers for market from Orkney to Jersey and is the closest thing the British flower industry has to an official trade body.
In 2018 a small FFTF team took Gold at RHS Chelsea Flower Show with a display containing flowers and foliage sent by 86 members from all over the country and that success cemented the return of British flowers to their rightful place in people’s hearts and in their homes.
Flowers are unique; they can say Happy Birthday or I Love You in the happiest of times - and they can say Sorry and Thinking About You when you can’t find the right words in the saddest.
Come to Fieldhouse Farm, pick you own flowers and let them do the talking.
