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Sustainable Flowers and Foliage, Grown in Headingley/Adel, for Wholesale to Florists, DIY weddings, Funerals and Bouquets.

Bouquets and unaranged flower wraps available for collection, delivery and receipt by post n Fridays.

14/09/2026

Good morning!

All of the this weekend’s seed orders areni the post!

Thank you so much to everyone who has ordered and shared information about our joint sale with Paula Baxter

The seed shop is open until Friday 24 September.

We’ve carefully saved and seleted seed from perennials amd a couple of annuals to add variety to your growing spaces and gardens.

Take a look at the seedshop using the linknin our bio 🌱

Rebecca

27/07/2026

So many good things in one place!

Ladybirds- love them!

Achillea-love love love it!

Teenagers- mainly loveable most days 😆

Sending my best Monday wishes to every flower grower and business owner out there with caring responsibilities for those young and old.

We feel it too 💛

24/07/2026

Soooo

What happens if you look at flowers in a different way?

I’ve been thinking about Dahlia alot. They’re wierdly early but they’re also not really heat lovers….

We usually aim to cut our Dahlia 3 times a week. But this year I’m cutting them twice, watering and feeding less and watching to see how they do.

Why?

Well I don’t want to dig them up in autumn-too much work.

I don’t want them to get stressed in the heat, work too hard and then not have the reserves to cope with whatever winter throws at them.

And I want to make sure that I have focal flowers in our dried flower offering this autumn. So twice a week suits our schedule better.

What i’m learning is that this slightly more gentle approach seems to suit our Dahlia, on our hot dry droughty site.

I think we’re all needing to be open to more change than we’re comfortable with. For us the aim to to sustain what we have so that we don’t have to waste money replacing what we have. Sometimes this will mean going more gently rather than pushing harder.

Friday thoughts!

Rebecca

13/07/2026

Hi I’m Rebecca

I grow Seasonal British Flowers and Foliage for Florists, DIY Weddings and Funerals in Yorkshire and around the UK.

The Silver Grey Foliage Flower Farm was established in 2019 on the our first half acre of rented land.

We now grow quality flowers on 2 acres without chemicals on a site filled with birds, bees and bugs that we’ve encouraged onto the farm by our sustainable practices.

Our approach is simple and based on doing the unglamorous fundamentals of land management and growing well and patiently and quietly because nature will not be rushed.

And we share our approach and help other Flower Growers to flourish from the roots up through GROW Club.

Want to know more? Say Hi in the comments. Join a newsletter. Drop me a DM. Listen to MULCH.

Thanks for reading.

Rebecca

Photo credit

07/07/2026

So today we planted out new foliage and did a couple of small but yummy cuts.

Then I set to work on Project Rose.

I’m forever talking about natural defences for the flowers and foliage that Deer and Rabbits love to eat on the MULCH podcast.

I use Echinops to protect our first flush of Roses and Eryngium to protect the second.

Today we’ve cut the Echinops for drying and made a start on hard pruning the Roses. They could do with a deep feed and water and they’ll be off again ready for later in the season.

Everything in order and in it’s place.

How was your day?

06/07/2026

It’s Monday- the hardest day of my week sometimes. I find being tied to my desk SO hard.

Thankfully tomorrow I’ll be back in the field and there’s more of this on my cutting list!

And Foliage too… lots of Foliage. Thank you 🙏

02/07/2026

I’m a Flower Farmer.

I love Dahlia.

And yet normally they make me a little sad.

Dahlia are normally one of the final focal Flowers of the season… Normally Dahlia mean that it’s almost time to pack away the flowers for the season.

Apparently not this year though…..

So this bucket really made me smile. And it’s also made me really think about what’s coming next….

And these Dahlia have made me worry. Because if I have Dahlia in the first week of July outdoors in Yorkshire, isn’t that a bit… wierd? Worrying?

Really mixed feelings. Because I also have zinnia and the Rudbeckia are starting and I am genuinely delighted.

And yet….

Anyway- I thought I’d share my incomplete stream of consciousness on the subject of Dahlia because my family are tired of hearing it 🙈

01/07/2026

So…

We’re starting to take flowers off the field for drying.

They’ll be ready for Autumn and Christmas gifts!

However, we thought that some of you might want to enjoy drying your own flowers!

It’s simple and satisfying when you have the right flowers!

Have a peak using the link in our bio and you’ll be arranging your hand dried flowers within weeks!

Rebecca

30/06/2026

Every year is so different.

This season is similar to last in so many ways but it does feel harder. It’s definitely a new challenge tomour Resilience.

That said, we’ve had some new successes. And the latest is Zinnia! I’ve already cut more stems than ever before…

For full disclosure, that’s not hard 😆 Last year I managed 24 whole stems.

Zinnia have managed to stay on my ‘Ongoing Learning’ list for longer than most flowers are allowed.

The question is- will I want to keep them on the growing list for 2027?

Rebecca

Picture- a seasonal gift bouquet cut and delivered on June 29th in Leeds. Incredible!

25/06/2026

A few surprises as I walked the field this evening..

It was cooler, with a breeze.

Very very welcomed. We have alot of catching up to do over the next few days as all that I’ve done this week is cut in the early early hours.

Perhaps tomorrow i’ll take a moment to capture rhe Roses with the proper camera before I deadhead hundreds or stems.

Stunning, but such a waste….

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