UK: Slow Flowers – Why British Blooms Are Booming
October 28, 2014 | 1 min to read
Of the many life lessons I have learnt a little too late – among them: don’t mix the grape and the grain, never eat a biscuit that floats – is that you can never give too many flowers. They are always welcome.
Georgie Newbery, who runs the flourishing Common Farm Flowers, has been at the forefront of a quiet revolution: the so-called slow flower movement. At her smallholding in Somerset, she and her husband, Fabrizio, grow seasonal flowers without chemicals, in polycultures that encourage a balanced ecology.
A writer by trade, Georgie fell into growing and arranging cut flowers almost by accident.
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