Growing Cut Flowers (Let's Grow, Girls)

In our season 5 finale, we chat to Felicia Alvarez of Menagerie Farm. Felicia is a third generation farmer with 100 acres farming beautiful garden roses as well as other specialty flowers, French prunes and rice. Felicia’s favourite childhood memories include farming fragrant garden roses with her grandmother and years later in 2014 she accidentally became a rose farmer! In this episode you can hear more about Felicia’s journey to rose farming, some of her top tips and favourite varieties, plus all about how you can learn more about growing your own wonderful roses with her.

This week we are joined by short term flower farmer but long term dreamer Melissa from The Real Bloom co in the North of England. We learn all about how she dreamed up her new life as a flower farmers and a self builder.  Her website: https://therealbloomcompany.co.uk/

This week Michaela comes back to tell us about what she learned in her first year flower farming

This week we are joined by the amazing Sarah Gray, of Bloom & Gray flower farm in Yorkshire aka Sarah #1 for the purposes of telling them apart!

Season 4 of Let’s Grow, Girls is back with a bang and we’ve got Danish gardener, photographer, broadcaster and publisher, Claus Dalby! Claus tells us all about his garden inspiration, his love of colour and talks about some of his favourite plants. Not only do we cover our usual cut flower chat, but Claus also chats to us about growing in his garden “rooms”, his spectacular container displays and definitely adds a few more plants to our ever growing lists! Remember to come find us on Instagram @letsgrowgirlspodcast and also our Facebook group where you can ask us any questions about the episode. We also have a new Patreon account where you can subscribe to get access to exclusive content. Links to all of these are on our website www.letsgrowgirls.co.uk or via our Instagram bio. Thanks!

This week we are joined by talented floral photographer Janne Ford who shares some insight into how she found herself in this dream job, and tips for us all to improve our own floral photography.

Do you stare at other peoples wonderful rose bushes in wonder?! Have no idea how to prune them or keep them healthy, or have you been too intimidated to grow them so far?

This is the episode for you! We're joined by Katya, whose glorious Instagram feed is always filled with the most incredible roses. She brings advice on how to grow your own roses for cutting, the best varieties, the best companion plants for roses and so much more.  She is a fascinating guest with a really interesting story and we are so grateful to have had an insight into her little slice of paradise. Enjoy this episode!

You can follow Katya here.

Let's Grow, Girls is a podcast for people who are keen to learn to grow their own beautiful cut flowers. Perhaps you just want some long lasting, fresh flowers for the house, or you want to know how to start a flower farm.  Join flower friends Sarah and Nicole for lots of laughs, expert interviews and flowery inspiration!

Join the LGG Facebook group here for top tips from guests and to make some flowery friends!

This week Charles Dowding gives us the step-by-step to achieving a weed free cut flower patch with his No-Dig method. It's simple, easy and Charles is totally fascinating. So if you haven't started digging your beds yet, put that spade down! Yeah you!

We're talking about how to go No-Dig, why you should, and the benefits of giving up the shovel.

Check out Charles' Website for more of his wisdom!

Let's Grow, Girls is a podcast for people who are keen to learn to grow their own beautiful cut flowers. Join flower friends Sarah and Nicole for lots of laughs, expert interviews and flowery inspiration.

For this first episode of 2020 we are joined by the amazing Kara to talk about her big move into perennials for cut flower production!

We’re learning about what prompted her move to perennials, what her favourites have been so far and what her most popular stems in her arrangements have been.

Let’s Grow, Girls is the cut flower podcast is a weekly dose of upbeat, friendly flower growing expertise! For those who grow a few flowers in their garden, to those who want to know how to start a flower farm.

Subscribe to be notified of our weekly episodes. If you have questions or want to see what other listeners are growing, join our Facebook group here!

Kara's links: Website | Instagram

Website: https://www.milliproust.com

We are incredibly excited to welcome Rachel and her endless knowledge onto the show to discuss an important topic: growing perennials for cut flowers. Which are the best cultivars? What couldn’t she live without? How did she pick just 128 for her book? We have all the answers for you this week!

Rachel's social media -

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gandgorgeousflowers/?hl=en

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/greenandgorgeousflowers/

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The episode lots of Growers have been waiting for! In this episode we’ve got dried flower expert, Bex Partridge, talking to us about modern everlasting blooms. She gives us all her tips on how to master some of the classics like hydrangeas and honesty, and also talks to us about her favourite cut flowers to grow which look gorgeous in your garden but also are great for the beginner who wants to get into growing for dried blooms.

So, if you've wondered how to start growing your own dried flowers, or you started growing your own cut flowers this summer and want to branch out (pun intended, ha!) next year - this episode is for you.

For more info from Bex, her book, or her online shop click here.

Here's how to join our Facebook group and see a list of Bex's favourites!

We are SO excited to be joined by one of the UK's OG flower growers, Georgie Newbery - and boy did her wonderful interview not disappoint! She turned the confusion and overwhelm into simple solutions in minutes and we can't wait to take some of her advice into the 2021 growing season. 

In this episode Georgie walks us through the basic set up for a successful and productive cut flower garden, the basics for those wanting to grow their own wedding flowers and even spacing and natural wind protection methods for your beds. She answered some of the most asked questions we get on social media and our FB group and we are so grateful to her for sharing so much wisdom with us!

Georgie runs Common Farm Flowers, in Somerset and had two amazing books out; How To Grow Your Own Wedding flowers and The Flower Farmers year.

Check out her website here to see her courses, flowers for delivery (UK wide!) and books.

Let’s Grow, Girls is the cut flower podcast is a weekly dose of upbeat, friendly flower growing expertise! For those who grow a few flowers in their garden, to those who want to know how to start a flower farm.

Subscribe to be notified of our weekly episodes. If you have questions or want to see what other listeners are growing, join our Facebook group here!

Read the episode transcript here!

It’s Nicole’s favourite week of the season so far: it’s rose week! The team from David Austin roses are back to give us some important rose care tips as we all prepare to care for our roses this year (and every year after!)

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Join our super secret Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/3411863942230260/

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David Austin links -

Website - https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/davidaustinroses

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIqj_w8c7iGXNrXgdWXs4fg

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/david_austin_roses/

Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.co.uk/davidaustinroses/

This week we are joined by the peony master Alec White from UK peony specialists Primrose Hall. Their website: https://primrosehallpeonies.co.uk

This week we are joined by Natasha from 1818 farms to talk all things dried flowers, soaps, wax sachets.

Check out her farm: https://1818farms.com/collections/most-popular-items

https://www.instagram.com/santacruzdahlias?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

https://www.instagram.com/david_austin_roses?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

This week we're so excited to return from summer hiatus to bring you a highly anticipated flower that's very hard to grow.  

The wonderful Briana joins us to talk all about how she got into farming, how she focuses on making her farm more sustainable and more.

Find out more about Briana: https://blossomandbranchfarm.com/

Our most requested guest thus far, please welcome Ben (AKA Alstroemeria Ben) to the show! Alstroemeria make wonderful cut flowers because they last incredibly well in the vase and are wonderful to arrange with. They come in a whole host of colours and a perennial so come back year on year. They spread too, so your Alstromeria patch should get more and more productive as time goes on! We are so excited to chat to Ben about his British Flowers Rock campaign and about the pressing need for more education for the public on where their flowers are coming from. He also shares the basics of how to add some Alstromeria to your cutting patch - how to space them, care for them, pick them and more.  Let’s Grow, Girls is the cut flower podcast is a weekly dose of upbeat, friendly flower growing expertise! For those who grow a few flowers in their garden, to those who want to know how to start a flower farm. Subscribe to be notified of our weekly episodes. If you have questions or want to see what other listeners are growing, join our Facebook group here! We have gathered a list of the best cut flower alstromeria varieties and where to buy them that will be posted in the group!

This week we talk to the gardening legend that is Lisa Mason Ziegler from The Gardener’s Workshop. We talk all about growing successfully in soil blocks and the technique of growing cool flowers which Lisa is known for.

We're fan girling over this one a little bit today... especially Nicole! We are joined by the one, the only, Kristine from Santa Cruz dahlias. Dahlia breeding extraordinaire with over 16 years experience, she's giving us the basics on how to start hybridizing dahlias. So if you've ever wondered "How do I breed my own dahlia?" then boy do we have the episode for you. Kristine's website: https://www.santacruzdahlias.com/

Marryn, an honorary Grow Girl is back and she has been promoted to Director of Enabling!! Marryn joins us for our garden notes series to tell us what's happening in her garden this week.... but mostly to give us  list of 100 new things we need to buy. Oops!!

You can find Marryn here:

Website | Insta 

Let’s Grow, Girls is the cut flower podcast is a weekly dose of upbeat, friendly flower growing expertise! For those who grow a few flowers in their garden, to those who want to know how to start a flower farm.

Subscribe to be notified of our weekly episodes. If you have questions or want to see what other listeners are growing, join our Facebook group here!

And join our family as a patron (oooh, aaaah!) - more info to be found here: https://www.patreon.com/letsgrowgirls

Oh boy, do we have an absolute king of a guest today! The man, the myth, the legend Roger Parsons is joining us to talk all the things sweet peas. They are such a staple in the cutting garden, and if you want to add flounce and fragrance when growing your own cut flowers - you really have to get growing them now!

Roger reveals when to sow for optimum results based on where you are in the UK (sorry overseas listeners!), how to pinch, grow tidily, save seeds and so, so much more. This episode is a wealth of knowledge for those of you looking to up your sweet pea game!

Click here to join our Facebook group and access the notes on Roger's favourite varieties and how to purchase them!

August on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/augusts_garden?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

This week is a new one! We're bringing you a Q&A session with questions submitted from our Facebook group and Instagram page, covering a whole host of questions - everything from seed starting, growlights, to our unpopular opinions.

Things mentioned:

UK cell trays: https://containerwise.co.uk/

UK cell trays: https://www.bootstrapfarmer.com/

Let’s Grow, Girls is the cut flower podcast is a weekly dose of upbeat, friendly flower growing expertise! For those who grow a few flowers in their garden, to those who want to know how to start a flower farm.

Subscribe to be notified of our weekly episodes. If you have questions or want to see what other listeners are growing, join our Facebook group here!

We are kicking off season 8 with a dedicated dahlia episode with dahlia extraordinaire David Hall of Halls of Heddon, a specialist dahlia nursery here in the U.K.  

If you’ve listened to our podcast before, you’ll know Nicole was in her element with this episode and David certainly fed her habit! 

Don’t forget to tell your other flower friends about the podcast by sharing on social media, you can find us on Instagram or Facebook @letsgrowgirlspodcast. We’d also love you to leave us a review if you enjoyed listening.  

David's socials -

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hallsofheddon/?hl=en

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU8LiX904bk-rK_GaDkCu1g?app=desktop

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/HallsOfHeddon/?locale=en_GB

Webste - https://www.hallsofheddon.com/

Are you a beginner gardener? Just starting out with your cut flower journey? Well this is the episode for you. We chat to new-grower, Lauren McDermott, about her first foray into the cut flower world! We talk about all the seeds and tubers she’s got ready for her first summer of blooms. And we couldn’t have Lauren on the podcast without talking style and getting some tips on what she wears in the garden.

We’re joined yet again by our resident Director Of Enabling who heard that we were in need of a shopping list update…

In this week’s episode (the second of the second) we are joined by the lovely Heather of Petal Pink Flowers. We talk all about statice, a flower that we are predicted a big comeback for, and why/how to run a subscription flower service for your customers. There’s some farm animal chat in there too as usual!

Guess who's back?! After a nice winter break and a minor editing drama - we are back! And with the one and only Grace Alexander for company. See her website: https://www.gracealexanderflowers.co.uk/ 

In this week’s episode we talk all things lilies with Loraine Hart from Harts Nursery. Ever wondered the difference between an Asiatic and a tree lily? Well wonder no more. We hope you all feel inspired to grow lilies after this. For more info on the podcast please head over to our Instagram @letsgrowgirlspodcast Happy growing!

It's that dreaded time of the year - time to dig up the dahlia tubers! Well, get your waterproofs on, and take us along with you for the ride. Talking through the ins and outs of the process for complete beginners, and cracking some great jokes for those of you who've done it before and are just here for the company. 

If you're looking to start a cut flower garden, or grow your own cut flower bunches, then dahlias are definitely on your radar. Host Nicole is affectionately known as the Dahlia Queen over on Instagram so she will be sitting in as the guest this week to talk about how, when and why to dig yours up. And then there's also the debate of when, and how to divide - and then how and where to store them until we're ready to release them next spring!

Let's Grow, Girls is the flowery corner of the internet for everyone interested in growing their own flowers. Join Sarah and Nicole as they interview experts from across the world and discover the secret to beautiful, long lasting homegrown flowers (with some terrible Dad jokes along the way!)

This week we are joined by Niki from Flourish flower farm!

You can find her here:

Instagram (@flourishflowerfarm) | Website ( more info about ordering her book on her website!)

This week we are joined by Gemma from Green Rabbit Flowers again to talk about the mystery that is Icelandic poppies.

Her website: https://www.greenrabbitflowers.co.uk

Ta-da!! Season 1 is over, and so is 2020 (hasta la vista!!) so we thought we'd celebrate by sharing our bloopers and funny bits from season 1

We started this podcast to share our love of growing flowers and to offer out a flowery hand of friendship to all others who also love to grow their own flowers. We are SO, so grateful for how many of you have supported us on this journey, and been patient with us as we figured out how to do this whole podcast thing

We are so excited for a 2021 filled with flowery friendships and more interesting interviews with amazing guests. Let's just say we have some real stonkers in the line- up! And for season 3 we will be returning with a grow-a-long, where we will be guiding you on what jobs you should be doing each week, and sharing the comings and goings of our different cutting gardens.

Sarah's other half, who we refer to as "F" does not want his name shared so it is muted in these clips. We left the swearing in though, for fun, so this episode is perhaps not as child friends as the ones that came before it. 

And be sure to join our Facebook group for lots of flowery chit chat!

Another week of Garden Notes! This week we are joined by Charlie from @The_Home_Gardener on Instagram to hear how she's been getting on in her garden. 

Find her here:

Instagram | Website

Let’s Grow, Girls is the cut flower podcast is a weekly dose of upbeat, friendly flower growing expertise! For those who grow a few flowers in their garden, to those who want to know how to start a flower farm.

Subscribe to be notified of our weekly episodes. If you have questions or want to see what other listeners are growing, join our Facebook group here!

And join our family as a patron (oooh, aaaah!) - more info to be found here: https://www.patreon.com/letsgrowgirls

It's time to reflect on the year gone and look forward with hope to a year filled with flowers and joy! We're joined by a host of flowery friends to talk about what we've learned this year.

For those who embarked on growing their own cut flowers this year there is so much to be proud of. If you successfully started a single seed - what a star you are! 2020 has taken one final turn for the worst with the new UK Stay-At-Home order but we are glad to bring you all an opportunity to reflect on the brighter moments we all had this year.

Guests:

Kara - Blooming Joy Flower Co - Insta

Marianne - Wolves Lane Flower Co - Insta

Amy - Chicks and Veg

Elonor - ThePeonyFarmerUK - Insta

Sofie - Soil and Fleurs

Andrea - Dahlia Beach - Insta

Em - Emjorealdavies

Thank you SO much for listening to our first season! We are so grateful for everyone one of you, our Growers. We wish you all the happiest Christmas and the best year next year. See you after a few weeks of eating!!!!

This week we are SO excited to welcome Erin from Floret to talk about the origins of Floret, some of the challenges they’ve had along the way and about the future of the farm.

https://www.floretflowers.com

*After recording we have realised an unexpected tech issue has caused some unusual audio on this episode but we hope you are still able to hear all of Rebecca’s insights!*

Who doesn’t love a bunch filled with eucalyptus?!

This week we are excited to welcome Rebecca who has all the answers for anyone wondering how to plan a cut flower farm and what she has learned since she started. 

The icing on the cake is her insights into growing foliage for cut flowers.

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/silvergreyfoliage/?hl=en

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/silvergreyfoliage/

Ever wondered what propagating is or where to start with it? Well wonder no more, we have the episode for you! With our first ever Irish guest, Fionnuala Fallon, we talk about seed collecting, dividing and taking cuttings plus much more.

If you don't already have snapdragons on the list for your cut flower patch this year - that's about to change!! We are so excited to welcome Gemma from Green Rabbit Flowers who has been growing for only a few years but had found success in her local area with beautiful colour combinations and amazing snapdragons. 

Today she's spilling her secrets to growing show stopping snapdragons (seriously, check out her insta if you don't believe us!) - autumn sowing, when to pinch, how to propagate and more!

Green Rabbit Flowers: Instagram  | Facebook  |  Website

Let’s Grow, Girls is the cut flower podcast is a weekly dose of upbeat, friendly flower growing expertise! For those who grow a few flowers in their garden, to those who want to know how to start a flower farm.

Subscribe to be notified of our weekly episodes. If you have questions or want to see what other listeners are growing, join our Facebook group here!

Dahlias dahlias dahlias! This week we are joined by a UK dahlia legend, Phillippa from Justdahlias in Cheshire who grows to sell cut flowers for floristry. She also dries her dahlias to sell year round. 

You can find her here:

Instagram | Website 

This week we have something a little bit different for you! We are joined by Tom Leonard, aka Daisy Desire the Drag Queen Gardener, who is here to bring a bit of couture to our manure! We chat to Tom about how getting an allotment helped him through some tough times and gardening means to him to and his mental health. It’s become so important to him that he’s now a trained horticulturist, has started a career in this field and with the help of Daisy has made it their mission to promote the mental wellbeing benefits of horticulture, encouraging people to go outside and get growing, and motivating them to do what makes them happy. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we loved recording it!

We're back for season 3! This season, Garden Notes, will be a more laidback look into what is happening in our gardens each week: featuring a guest who can tell us about their garden or cut flower patch too. 

This week we are joined by Lizzie from The Rose Press Garden, an exciting new seed shop aiming to make gardening products that are for a younger audience. She tells us how she started gardening, what she's direct sowing this week and lots more!

Find Lizzie:

Shop | Instagram

Let’s Grow, Girls is the cut flower podcast is a weekly dose of upbeat, friendly flower growing expertise! For those who grow a few flowers in their garden, to those who want to know how to start a flower farm.

Subscribe to be notified of our weekly episodes. If you have questions or want to see what other listeners are growing, join our Facebook group here!

Love the show? Help us keep producing this flowery content and support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/letsgrowgirls)

This week Kate, aka the Compost Queen, joins us to talk all things compost including her bokashi, ceramic impost and worm farm systems for at home composting. For more: https://www.instagram.com/compostable.kate/?hl=en

Surprise!! We're all on our own - and we're covering the past year's successes and our big plans for the year to come. Plus, a bit of an insight into us two - your mysterious hosts!

Ever wondered what it was like to be a grower in a big city like London? Well, wonder no more because Marianne and Camila from Wolves Lane Flower Co are here to tell us! We talk about what it’s like to be an urban farmer, what unusual things they grow and also what it’s like to grow in a large glasshouse. Marianne and Camila also have a book coming out this month, How to Grow the Flowers which we also chat about.

This week we are joined by the LGG Director Of Enabling, Marryn! This is her third appearance on the show and our favourite (and only) repeat guest.

This week she's talking us through how her sweet pea season went, her fave varieties from this year and the ones she's most excited for in the year to come.

Marryn's website: https://www.thefarmhouseflowerfarm.com/
Marryn's instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/thefarmhouseflowerfarm/

It's time to get growing, flowery girls and boys! Today's topic is autumn sowing, the process of sowing seeds and overwintering them for stronger plants the next year. What to autumn sow, what we're autumn sowing and general seed chat!

It’s ranunculus time!

Zinnias have a reputation for being a bit of a difficult flower but this week’s guest, Kori from Dawn Creek Farm, tells us all her secrets to getting the best out of them especially when growing for cut flowers. Kori is also an extraordinary breeder of new flower varieties and zinnias are one of her specialities. She’s developed a range of the most perfect pinkish coloured blooms and is a hit with flower farmers across America. She gives us all her tips for breeding including how to get a better chance of those elusive cupcake heads! If you’ve enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving us a review! And don’t forget if you become a Patreon at letsgrowgirls.co.uk you can listen to a special side episode with every guest!

It’s rose time!

Ranunculus fans, unite! This week we're joined by Marryn from The Farmhouse Flower Farm in Washington, USA and she's going through the basics of growing amazing ranunculus and anemones for cut flower production. 

So for anyone wondering how to grow ranunculus corms or how to improve their current ranunculus patch, this is the episode for you! Marryn covers everything from how to pre-sprout your ranunculus and anemone corms, spacing, light requirements, what kind of fertiliser they love and of course her all time favourite varieties!

(There was an error with the initial release of the episode, if your device automatically downloaded it ready to listen just delete the episode from your phone and try again for the updated version!)

Check out Marryn's incredible farm on her instagram

And be sure to join our Facebook group for lots of flowery chit chat!

This week we have our first ever Australian guest - and we are so excited to talk dahlias with Lorelie from Florelie Seasonal Flowers

Mums the word! It’s the season 2 finale and have we ever got a good episode for you! 

The flower that has us the most flummoxed is one that seems to have most of you stumped too, the chrysanthemum. 

So when we wanted to learn more, who better to call upon but the one and only, Sarah Raven. Not only does Sarah gives us her tips and tricks for growing the perfect "xanths" but she also tells us about growing at her garden Perch Hill and reveals her favourite dahlia and tulip varieties. So if you only listen to one thing this week, make it our season 2 finale.

Sarah's Instagram handles: @sarahravensgarden @sarahravenperchhill

Sarah Raven's website/shop: https://www.sarahraven.com/

Let’s Grow, Girls is the cut flower podcast is a weekly dose of upbeat, friendly flower growing expertise! For those who grow a few flowers in their garden, to those who want to know how to start a flower farm.

Subscribe to be notified of our weekly episodes. If you have questions or want to see what other listeners are growing, join our Facebook group here!

It’s time to sow your hardy annuals and we are joined by Cel Robertson of Forever Green Flower Co to tell us all her favourites and how she does it! We’ve also got a sponsor for this first episode, Harrod Horticultural who have kindly given us a discount code to get 10% off all of their amazing products by entering LETSGROW10 at checkout valid until the end of the year. T&C’s apply, please note Harrod Horticultural only ship within the UK. See their website for further details.

In this week’s episode, we chat bulbs, bulbs, bulbs with Linda and Marlies from Fam Flower Farm! The lovely ladies from the Netherlands tell us about what to do with your spring tulips now they’ve finished blooming and also we look ahead to next year’s flowers and how to prepare 🌷 And if you are a Patreon subscriber, you can hear all about Linda and Marlies’ favourite flowers and varieties! Head over to the our website www.letsgrowgirls.co.uk to find out more (spoiler: it’s less than a cup of your favourite fancy coffee to listen to the super secret side episodes for every episode!) ☕️

You wanted to us to talk soil and your wish is our command! In today’s episode we have Jo and Wendy from Organic Blooms, an organic cut flower farm based in Bristol, U.K. Jo and Wendy were one of the first flower farms in the U.K. to achieve organic certification by the Soil Association so they know a thing or two about growing flowers organically. We talk about the complexities of becoming certified organic and how you can apply some of these practices in your home garden or your allotment, not to mention our usual flower filled chat as we find out some of Jo and Wendy’s favourite blooms at the farm and talk about companion planting.

Back with Season 6, we speak to India Hurst of Vervain Flowers all about her floral obsession, bearded irises. If you ever wondered how to grow these dramatic cut flowers then this is the episode for you! India gives us tons of tips on how to grow them and we have our usual lovely flowery chat and laughs along the way.

This week we are joined by the one an only sunflower Steve! The breeder of the most incredible double sunflowers - which have probably captured your attention via the magic of Instagram. Steve has been flower farming for 21 years and shares his fascinating journey, his top tips and spills all the secrets about his upcoming seed line!

Marlies and Linda from Fam Flower farm join us in our flowery corner of the internet to talk all things bulbs! If you're hoping to add tulips or daffodils to your cut flower garden this year then this is the episode for you.

Covering how, when, which varieties to plant and so much more it was truly a joy to have them as our guests today! They both make such incredible, long lasting cut flowers and come in such beautiful variations that they're a must if you're hoping to grow your own cut flowers. And hey, even if you don't need the sales pitch from us and you're already growing tulips - perhaps we can keep you company while you complete the back breaking labour!

 

https://www.instagram.com/bayntunflowers?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Today we are joined by Michaela from @planting.with.Michaela

We're super excited to welcome Nicole from Flower Hill Farm (of YouTube fame) on to the show for a good old flower chit chat and so she can talk us all through the basics of growing gladioli for cut flowers. 

She's explaining spacing, when to plant, succession planting, saving the corms and so much more. She's also sharing the other things she's excited to plant on the farm for 2021.

Links

Nicole:  Website  | Instagram  |  YouTube  (Flower Hill Farm)

Things we mentioned:

Kings Mums

Echinacea Supreme Cantaloupe

Let’s Grow, Girls the cut flower podcast is a weekly dose of upbeat, friendly flower growing expertise! For those who grow a few flowers in their garden, to those who want to know how to start a flower farm.

Subscribe to be notified of our weekly episodes. If you have questions or want to see what other listeners are growing, join our Facebook group here!

Our Director of Enabling is back for another fabulous episode! Marryn tells us all about the madness of her recent dahlia tuber sale and then gives us the scoop on her exciting sweet pea news! Don’t forget, our lovely Patreon subscribers also have access to a super secret side episode and this week Marryn tells us her most favourite sweet peas. You can find out how to become a subscriber by visiting our website www.letsgrowgirls.co.uk

This week we’re coming to you with just us to go over the gossip: where the two of us are growing this year, what we’re growing, and lots more. Lets Grow Girls links Follow the podcast on Instagram - ⁠https://www.instagram.com/letsgrowgirlspodcast/?hl=en⁠ Join our super secret Facebook group - ⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/3411863942230260/⁠ Check out our website - ⁠https://www.letsgrowgirls.co.uk/⁠ YouTube - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0SaU1V6XyJnSXB8QoeYMXw⁠ Or become a Patreon (and discover all the super secret side episodes) - ⁠https://www.patreon.com/letsgrowgirls⁠ 

We get asked for foliage and filler recommendations all the time, so in this week’s episode we chat to Brenna from Three Brothers Blooms, a beautiful flower that she runs from her home in the Washington state, in the United States, to hear about some of her favourites. From phlox to pansies, you’ll be adding to your seed list like there’s no tomorrow! Brenna has the most amazing taste in flowers and we couldn’t get enough of her suggestions!

Another week, another notebook full of garden notes! This week we are joined by Sophie, dialling in from Wiltshire in the UK to tell us all about what she's got going on in the garden right now!

Find Sophie:

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In this week’s episode we speak to Carole and Justine, co-chairs if Flowers From The Farm, an organisation dedicated to helping those of us with cut flower patches turn their dream into a reality - starting our very own flower farm that makes our hobby into an actual business! So if you ever wondered how to start a flower farm and how this wonderful group of flower growers can help you turn your dream into a reality, then hit play now!

Find your local flower farm or join FFTF here.

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This week we’re joined by author Marianne Slater from Frances & Rose to hear about her journey to flower-queen and how she started her flower farm and flowery empire.

They smell the best when stolen from someone else's garden.. this week we're talking all things lilacs. Naomi Slade, author, lilac fan, gardening extraordinaire joins us to bestow much lilac related wisdom. If you've ever wondered how to grow lilacs for cut flowers, this is the episode for you. Naomi's website: https://www.naomislade.com/

This week we're joined by someone we've both admired for a long time - and she's covering a topic we haven't really covered yet. Muddy acres flower farm: https://muddyacres.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/muddyacresflowerfarm/  

This week we are joined by Amy from Chicks and Veg to talk all things wedding flowers, hornworms and Randy chickens

Calling all soon-to-be brides and grooms - it’s time to grow your own wedding flowers! This week Georgie returns to wow us again with her never ending flower knowledge to tell us how to grow our own wedding flowers

One of our most loved guests from season 1 returns for an epic flowery catch up!

The wonderful Marryn in definitely part of our flowery tribe and when Nicole and I had a gap in our recording schedule we knew we had to squeeze a flowery catch up in!

This is a long one, a really long one, so save this one for while you do your gardening tasks so that we can join you and fill your greenhouse/polytunnel/garden with flower friend chit chat. We're talking about successes from 2020, Marryn's favourite ever sweetpea varieties, what new things we're growing in 2021 and so, so, so much more! Grab a coffee and join us.

Let’s Grow, Girls is the cut flower podcast is a weekly dose of upbeat, friendly flower growing expertise! For those who grow a few flowers in their garden, to those who want to know how to start a flower farm.

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This week’s episode is with Sophie, the head gardener of the cutting garden at Chatsworth House. We talk all things Chatsworth before getting stuck into the real flower chat about how to grow Larkspur and Lupins!