{"id":16188,"date":"2016-06-11T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/british-flower-power-how-home-grown-blooms-can-compete-with-cheap-imports\/"},"modified":"2016-06-11T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T07:12:19","slug":"british-flower-power-how-home-grown-blooms-can-compete-with-cheap-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/british-flower-power-how-home-grown-blooms-can-compete-with-cheap-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"British flower power: how home-grown blooms can compete with cheap imports"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe UK spends more than \u00a32bn on cut flowers per year, but around 90% are imported. Now a new breed of growers are determined to grab more of that market, by persuading the public that local and seasonal are the ways to goGeorgie Newbery sometimes has to dodge a hunting barn owl when she rises at 5am to harvest flowers on her seven-acre plot near Wincanton in Somerset. Picking sweet rocket, foxgloves and cornflowers as dawn light streaks over the fields may sound idyllic, but grabbing a cup of tea on a late-May afternoon after despatching her exclusively British-grown posies and bouquets, Newbery laughs at the thought. \u201cIf you imagine it\u2019s all standing around in a flower garden with a Roberts radio and a robin singing, you couldn\u2019t be more wrong,\u201d she says, possibly a little tartly. Related: Is crowdfunding the future of horticulture? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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