Filling your house with flowers could be the secret to improving your mental health.

As a florist and ex Horticultural manager and “Having grown up in a horticultural minded family, being taken to our family allotment and watching Gardens World every Friday”, I’ve been surrounded by flowers and plants all my life and have first-hand experience of how they lift the mood of everyone they surround. My father being instrumental in demonstrating this…we had hens in the garden and then bee hives. There is a consistent link between exposure to flowers and plants and positive psychological health.

Whilst sat in the careers classroom at school, my friends all knew what they wanted to do…I did not… I sat and looked a poster on the side of the very seasoned wooden bookshelf of a vegetable garden…

My initial thought was I want to work in a market garden! That took me on to attend my local land based college to study Floristry…. Fast forward a few years… working as a horticultural manager in high trading garden centres and undertook further qualifications….. then back to Floristry designing for weddings and events.

I am lucky enough to have an area of land to dedicate to growing seasonal cut flowers.

Growing and providing locally grown seasonal flowers and foliage on the south coast from our flower patch cut garden !

Apples don’t fall to far from the tree! We now have rescue hens in our garden and a hive of honey bees! Learn more about our ecosystem here.