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Becoming a Cut Flower Grower

Join new cut flower grower Lydia for a behind-the-scenes look at how she"s starting to grow and sell cut flowers in the south of England. Over the course of 2025 she"ll be sharing everything she"s doing to get her cut flower business up and running, from the planning stages all the way through to harvesting flowers, by way of highs and lows, hints and tips, lessons she"s learning along the way (often the hard way) to the production and selling of beautiful cut flowers.If you"re thinking of starting

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14:42

Rain Stops Play, Shattering Dahlias, Learning Where...

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2025/08/29

Hello and welcome! It's a wet Friday 29 August 2025. Good news: my electrics are fixed, yippee! We've had a lot of rain this week which has caused some issues on the plot by flattening things and adversely affecting the quality of some of my cut flower stems. I was up on the plot super early on Thursday to cut for the local Flower Festival in a nearby town. I attended the Festival tonight and it was quite emotional seeing my blooms in a range of beautiful arrangements. My studying continues w...

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22:32

Selling Restarts, How To Pronounce 'Dahlia' & Plant...

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2025/08/26

Hello and welcome! It's a warm evening on Tuesday 26 August 2025. Tonight I share with you all the latest news from my plot and also talk through the seeds I've just received for 2026 including stunning Orlaya and some (hopefully) pastel Zinnias. Selling stems has restarted after a short break and it feels great, the batch cooking has restarted and there's an update on Dolores. We need to talk about plant spacings: I have made a mess of it this year and so things have to be improved in 2026. ...

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20:03

Let the Hens Out WIth Me, De-Mystifying Cool-Season...

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2025/08/23

Hello and welcome to today's episode: it's Saturday 23 August 2025 (not the 22nd like I say on the podcast). Join me on on the plot this morning as we let the chickens and ducks out together. It's been another busy week although somewhat quiet on the flower selling front. Still lots of watering to be done as we remain in drought conditions and lots of deadheading (although admittedly not as much as normal). Today I'm talking to you about cool-season annuals. Do you know what they are an...

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23:07

Eye-Opening Flower Farming Books, Fence Panels are...

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2025/08/19

Hello and welcome to today's episode: it's Tuesday 19 August 2025. Lots of successes over the weekend: the fat hose worked brilliantly to transfer water from the back of the van to IBC1; the fence panels are up around the newly-cleared area and they're secure; there is now a skirt of chicken wire around the fence panels to keep unwanted creatures out; and the dahlias are looking incredible and very big! Some bad news: the new flower hub launch has been postponed until September, and poorly Do...

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32:28

It's Time to Learn Some Business Skills, Fat Hose,...

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2025/08/15

Hello and welcome to tonight's episode on Friday 15 August 2025. Lots to tell you! No more navel gazing about how badly I feel I'm doing! This week I was sent a message by a very kind listener from the USA with a book recommendation: Flower Farming for Profit by Lennie Larkin. I ordered the book, it arrived today and it looks brilliant and just what I need. I then did some more research and ordered another book by Lisa Mason Ziegler called The Cut Flower Handbook, which also arrived today and...

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21:26

Heatwave Hell (Again), Doubts About Everything, The...

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2025/08/12

Hello and welcome. It's Tuesday 11 August 2025 and it's really hot (yet again). We're in the midst of heatwave no. 4 right now and so I've been busy watering and mulching with bark to keep the moisture locked into the soil and try to slow the weeds down. In many places on the plot I have the healthiest and best-looking nettles in the world right now. I seriously considered quitting this weekend (partly because I had a cold from hell) but I refuse to be beaten by the weather and my inexp...

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16:48

Made It Through Another Week, Dahlia Dis-Budding,...

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2025/08/08

Hello, it's Friday 8 August 2025. You're joining me for this episode on the plot: it's a truly beautiful evening and at one point a bat actually flies right over my head. This week has been good in terms of the cut flowers and my lovely event florist collected an order from me this morning. I have also got my car back from the mechanic and my cold has gone, so all round, it's a win. I've got dahlia news for you from my mentor and expert dahlia grower, Richard Bailey, after my visit to see him...

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22:26

Visiting a Fellow Grower, How My Availability List...

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2025/08/05

Hello and welcome to a warm and sunny Tuesday 5 August 2025. I'm back to cheerful business this week. However, apologies for my voice on this episode: I have got a cold at the moment. I've topped up one of the IBCs with a new water pump, which has been great and saved a lot of effort with no spillage, although it took the same amount of time as doing it by hand. I've also been planting out more of my strawflowers: some of them are flowering nicely and they're very pretty. Some great new...

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17:15

Rain, My Car Broke Down, Sweetpeas & Zinnias...

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2025/08/01

Hello and a warm welcome to Friday 1 August 2025. Bit of a meh week! After praying for rain for months, it massively disrupted all my plans yesterday so today was a bit of a rush to fit everything in - and then my car broke down! On a roundabout! Not good. I've been feeling a bit flat this week because my marketing plan is clearly failing and I'm not connecting with enough florists so I'm feeling like I'm really letting my flowers down. They all deserve to be going to weddings and parti...

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17:48

A Fellow Grower Visits, Something Ate My Apples &...

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2025/07/29

Hello and welcome. It's Tuesday 29 July 2025 and I hope you had a good weekend. It's a warm and sunny evening tonight and I'm recording on the plot. I've been busy clearing thistles and watching fence posts being installed to support the fence panels that will be going up around the newly-cleared area. There's also been lots of cutting, weeding, deadheading and watering going on. I've also been busy contacting local florists and inviting them to the plot so I can show them what's available. T...

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20:57

Peri-Meno-ing and Cut Flowers, Most/Least Profitable...

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2025/07/25

Hello and welcome. It's Friday 25 July 2025. How is it Friday already?!? Today's episode is a little different: the first part is me talking frankly and honestly to you about the challenges of establishing a cut flower business with peri-menopause. It has not been easy! I discuss how my debilitating symptoms impacted on me at a time when I needed every bit of brain power to get going, and the far-reaching effects of peri-menopause on every aspect of my life and work. The podcast only happened...

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32:22

Dahlias: Re-Staking & Thwarting Earwigs, Blush...

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2025/07/22

Hello and welcome. It's Tuesday 22 July 2025 and I've had to put a jumper on this evening for the first time in months. So much to tell you about this evening: I've been batch cooking dinners, collecting lots of rainwater, staking dahlias (properly this time), removing dahlia leaves to discourage earwigs, and deadheading cornflowers like mad (again). I've also had to deal with an unpleasant red mite infestation in the henhouse. I've been doing a lot of thinking this week: how can I have...

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15:48

I Have Dahlias Flowering (At Last), Lots of Cutting...

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2025/07/18

Hello and welcome to warm evening on Friday 18 July 2025. Tonight I'm sharing all my news about cutting and selling my flowers: this week I've been cutting and conditioning for a Thursday morning collection to my wedding florist, as well as securing a (very) last-minute order for a client that I delivered to a marina this morning. I'll also be talking about preparing my availability list for my florist for a wedding she has next weekend. As well as all of that, there's more good dahlia news w...

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20:46

Pricing: I Don't Know What I'm Doing, Oversharing (Am...

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2025/07/15

Hello and welcome to a windy and cloudy Tuesday 15 July 2025. Today's episode includes a chat about the challenges of prepping for supplying the weddings that I have coming up and the problems I'm having with pricing: it's really hard. I'm not sure I'm getting it right yet, which bothers me. It's also challenging for me to ensure that all the cut flowers that I'm committing to supplying are looking fabulous when my florist comes to collect them, which is not easy in the current conditions. Th...

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25:45

Big Problem: The Greenfly Are Back, Ridiculously...

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2025/07/11

Hello and welcome! It's the evening of Friday 11 July 2025 and I'm recording from the plot so the audio quality is a little bit up and down. I hope it doesn't bother you too much. It's so much nicer talking amongst the flowers than at home. Today's episode is a gentle evening walk-round of the plot and a chat about what's going on with everything I have, starting from the entrance gates and ending up at the far end. I'm talking about everything that I have growing on the plot and assess...

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Heatwave No. 3 is Here, My Shower is Full of...

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2025/07/08

Hello and welcome to this episode. It's a hot Tuesday 8 July 2025. I've been very busy on the field with dahlia staking (thanks to my birthday present of road pins), deadheading, staking and weeding. I really must sort the staking out earlier next year as it's a nightmare trying to do it when the plants are big and flowering. No dahlia flowers yet but any day now... I've also been busy on a big planting job for a couple of days which was nerve-wracking and either my hormones or my bolog...

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23:48

Selling Has Finally Started, Nigella Finally...

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2025/07/04

Hello and welcome! It's Friday 4 July 2025 and it's my birthday! And Happy American Independence Day if you're celebrating that today! I'm on a massive high after selling 100 stems of cut flowers to my lovely event florist, Jo, so I chat about this and how I managed to get everything delivered without breaking anything or spilling any water (a miracle). There's a photo on my insta @henhillcutflowers so you can see one of the buckets. It's been quite a busy week as I took a day out to go...

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20:01

Hot Flushes in a Heatwave (not fun!), New Gates,...

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2025/07/01

Hello. It's Tuesday 1 July 2025 and I'm sweltering, even at 8am. Lots to tell you: we made some new gates to enter the plot over the weekend so that I don't have to go into Roland's enclosure every time. It's an improvement but then I managed to step on a bit of metal and injured my foot. Highs and lows! The sweetpeas are incredible and smell so good: they are a real success. It's such a busy time on the plot with all the watering, deadheading, weeding, and staking. Exciting news: I'm o...

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21:12

Six-Month Review: Good Times, Disasters, Cornflower...

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2025/06/27

Hello. It's Friday 27 June 2025 and the mercury is rising once again. In this episode I talk about how the first six months of 2025 have been for me as a new cut flower grower and I hope you find it interesting. If you've been listening from the start then you'll recognise some of the issues raised, like the time I left a tap running and emptied out my own water storage tanks overnight. I discuss the highs and lows so far ranging from the excitement of actually selling stems to what to do wit...

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20:24

Cut Flower Farm Tours, Pitching Flowers to a Pub,...

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2025/06/24

Hello and welcome to the latest episode: it's Tuesday 24 June 2025. The heatwave is over (thankfully) and now it's just annoyingly windy. First off, a clarification of my position on cut flower farm tours that give you lunch. I'm not knocking them - they're brilliant. I talk about the farm tour that I went on before I started growing and it was so inspiring. Here's the details of what I did and I highly recommend it: https://www.plantpassion.co.uk/field-tour Plot update: what's doing we...

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