How it all started
Hello I'm Gemma and I started Little Wild Flower in the summer of 2020 after being furloughed from my job in floristry. I've spent many years growing flowers to cut for myself but like many I found i had more time to spend outside and do the things I love. Growing flowers and sharing them with others had always been a dream and now I had the time to make it a reality.
We took on a small piece of land at the end of 2020 and it's grown from there (excuse the pun)
"I'm very lucky to be able to pick from a number"of spaces. First being my own garden where my passion for growing really started."
Our growing space
I'm very lucky to be able to pick from a number of spaces. First being my own garden where my passion for growing really started. My Mum's garden is full of established perennial plants and many other wonderful flowers that are perfect for cutting. Then we have our field, which is home to the majority of the flowers that we grow.
"I have a real love for seasonal flowers, there is something special abouttheir wonky stems and not so perfect individual look."
Seasonality
I have a real love for seasonal flowers, there's something special about their wonky stems and not so perfect individual look. Growing each flower from a little seed and watching them flourish into the ingredients that go into our bouquets and buckets is my favourite part of being a flower farmer.
My work has a natural, garden gathered look about it and my style is very much inspired by the seasons. I love and appreciate each season and can never pick a favourite, as each one brings along something new and wonderful. Spring for its new starts, watching for new buds and searching for bulbs appearing in the soil, summer with roses full of the most amazing fragrance. Autumn brings the big blousy dahlias and rich colours. Then winter is all about incredible scented foliage's and a chance for the flowers that have been drying all summer to be the star of the show.
"There’s nothing better than listening to the bees buzz around or catching sight of a ladybird devouring those pesky aphids on the sweet peas."
Our ethos
Sustainability is very important to us and is at the heart of the business. We grow using organic practises, letting nature do it's thing without the need to use nasty chemicals and pesticides. There’s nothing better than listening to the bees buzz around or catching sight of a ladybird devouring those pesky aphids on the sweet peas. We only ever use peat free compost or homemade where possible.
All of our designs are only ever made using foam free techniques, mainly with the use of moss, which is always sustainably sourced . Everything we use to wrap our bouquets is compostable and the jars we use for our jam jar flowers are recycled.
We are very proud to be members of Flowers from the farm, who are a not-for-profit organisation that aim to encourage more people to grow cut flowers for market in the UK and to promote British grown flowers.
