14/05/2026
It feels like ages since we’ve done a proper Home Farm update… and honestly, we’re not quite sure where the weeks have gone 🌱
Life here has been very full lately — in the best possible way. We’ve been completely immersed in sowing and succession planting, potting on seedlings, creating new beds for our dahlias, and generally trying to stay one step ahead of the growing season (which currently feels impossible 🤣).
Our summer-sown seedlings from 2025 are now absolutely romping away. They were sown last summer, planted out, and spent the winter tucked up outside under covers — and they’re now rewarding us with some of our earliest crops of beautiful early summer annuals. It’s always slightly magical seeing flowers appear this early in the season from tiny seedlings we sowed months and months ago.
Haud It has been hard at work too and has built us a lovely new nursery stand which is already filling up at alarming speed! We’ve also recently discovered Wool Pots and we are slightly obsessed with them already — more on those in another post because they deserve one of their own.
Alongside all the growing, we’ve quietly been busy with weddings and farewell flowers too. We’ve created flowers for six weddings already this year, along with flowers for moments of remembrance and goodbye — always something we approach very gently and with great care. Thank you to everyone who has trusted us to create flowers for such important moments in your lives. We never take that lightly.
And while we’ve been slogging away here in muddy boots… Daud It has been off living his best life down at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 🤣
He’s been helping build a garden for James Doran-Webb — the incredible artist known for his huge driftwood animal sculptures — under the direction of Jonathan Bishop and the team at Foliation Ltd, who specialise in large-scale planting and living installations.
Safe to say he is absolutely loving every minute of it.
Between the hard graft, he’s also somehow managed to sneak off and meet famous people, send us endless photos, and generally rub in the fact that he’s having a wonderful time 🤣
We were especially delighted that he got to meet Georgie Newbery from Common Farm Flowers — someone we’ve admired for years, done courses with, and whose books have sat covered in compost and coffee stains in our house for a very long time.
He also met the wonderful Kazuyuki Ishihara — the celebrated Japanese garden designer and multiple RHS Chelsea Gold Medal winner — and even managed to get our RHS magazine signed for Paula, who absolutely loves his gardens.
And Sophie Raworth from the RHS coverage too, which was another lovely surprise.
Somehow Daud It keeps ending up in places and conversations he definitely wasn’t supposed to be in 🤣
Meanwhile Daisy had a little bout of sickness recently which gave us all a fright, but she is now fully back to supervising duties, inspecting seedlings, demanding snacks and generally making sure quality control standards remain exceptionally high 🐾
Back at Home Farm, subscription flowers will start heading out again over the next few weeks as the gardens really begin to wake up, and we honestly can’t wait to start sharing the best of the season with you all again.
As always, thank you for every order, every kind message, every workshop booking, every share, recommendation and bit of support. Small businesses like ours genuinely survive because of good people supporting what we do, and we’re very grateful for it 🌿
Paula, Jeanette, Haud It, Daud It & Daisy 🐾
