16-22 June is British Flower Week, encouraging us to buy local.
Something a little gentler for you today to balance out all the health and illness stuff, eh? This week – 16-22 June – is British Flowers Week. That means that, somewhere in your neighbourhood (in the UK, at least), you will probably find flowery tours, pop ups, flashes, workshops, window displays and events going on. I thought I’d better get this post out to you pronto, so you have a chance to find events!
The idea of the Flowers Week is to get us to buy flowers grown right here in the UK rather than those shipped in from abroad – that’s most flowers you’ll find in shops and florists, sadly.
Go here to find flower farms local to you, and have a check on their websites to see what events they’ve got going on this week and throughout the Summer. Flowers From The Farm have an events list here to start you off.
To be honest, just visiting a flower farm or picking up some fresh sweet peas, peonies, dahlias or delphiniums from their stands is lovely enough. I found a lovely one near me who does a bucket of fresh flowers so you can make your own arrangements. How lovely: a whole bucket of flowers. The only thing is: this being Cornwall, the county of tiny unpassable roads and a distinct lack of signposts, I have no idea how to find them! A what3words might be useful!
I often think, in another life, I might have been a flower farmer. I guess there’s still time, and now I have a garden…ooh, a cutting patch maybe?
Anyway, enjoy something during British Flowers Week if you can, even if it is some simple flowers from your own garden or local area – general rule of thumb: don’t nick from your neighbours (!) and if there are fewer than twenty of a particular wild flower in an area, don’t pick – move on and find a bigger patch.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed that gentler post. Do let me know. Can you tell I’m missing the And Finally bit of the newsletter, lol?
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