{"id":126713,"date":"2022-05-15T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bursting-into-flower-the-growth-of-sustainable-blooms\/"},"modified":"2022-05-15T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T08:18:38","slug":"bursting-into-flower-the-growth-of-sustainable-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bursting-into-flower-the-growth-of-sustainable-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Bursting into flower: the growth of sustainable blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAs awareness grows of the environmental impact of the cut-flower industry, new growers are selling sustainable blooms straight from their fieldsClose to the River Teme, in the shadow of the Malvern Hills, with three farm cats playing around our feet, Meg Edmonds is showing me around an old barn that she uses to store, arrange and wrap her flowers. It is busy with colour and life. There are tulips of every shade in crates, narcissi and ranunculi in buckets and vases. There are pots of snakeshead fritillary just outside the door, and a vase of blue and white anemones by the window, in water, so that Edmonds can make a note of how many times they open and close in the sun before they\u2019re over. \u201cI want to be able to tell people that information,\u201d she says. They\u2019re currently on number four. She pulls out a huge green stem that looks as if it has been ripped out of Jurassic Park. It turns out to be from an artichoke plant. There are dried artichokes elsewhere, their fluffy innards bursting out, to be used in dried arrangements over winter. We walk around the farm. Edmonds points out shrubs and trees that have ended up in her work, from a sumptuous trailing rosemary bush to the flowering branches of a crab apple tree.Everything here is useful. It has also been grown within walking distance, either on the family farm, or on a patch of land next to the farm shop, at the other end of the village, where Edmonds\u2019s flowers sell in big, beautiful bunches. Edmonds and her husband farm livestock and vegetables on his family farm (they are third generation), and converted to organic practices 20 years ago. After moving away from selling the farm\u2019s livestock to supermarkets, in favour of selling in their own farm shop, she started to think that there might be a way of doing the same for flowers. \u201cI didn\u2019t realise that there was this burgeoning market for local seasonal, mixed, beautiful things, like I had in my garden and like my friends raved over,\u201d she says. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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