The Knowledge — April

End of April and we thought the spring was warming up... and then!! Its blooming chilly! All the crops are waiting for a watering - really need rain. Some crops have slowed right up due to chilly night and many are waiting in the wings for rain before they are ready to crop.  At the Home of British Blooms its Tulip Festival week - historically the time of the Tulip Parade where coach loads packed with thousands of people would visit South Lincolnshire to tour the area and wonder at the sights, Tulip fields and of course Parade. Nowadays we...

Thank you for cramming so many orders into a short Bank holiday week! Phewee...!! and lovely to see the start of new products coming through - perfect for the up and coming Church Flower Festivals and these demonstrations and talks I seem to have crammed into April! Lovely mini gathering this week to inspire the local arrangers to try some planet friendly designs for the festivals and its off to the NAFAS Demonstrators Symposium tomorrow and then again to another NAFAS talk on Best of British next week! All of our local churches hold  flower festivals end of April beginning...

CROP REPORT HAPPY EASTER! Looks to be a blistering weekend of sunny weather from Evolve HQ - hazy skies and a warm breeze blowing in which means the temperature under glass is soaring...flowers don't stop growing and our growers will be working hard this weekend to ensure all products are cropped and cold stored ready for next week! this whilst many buzz off to the coast - remembering of course to fill up with fuel before they go as there are still shortages and reports of Norfolk and Suffolk travellers having to try 5 stations before being able to fill...

  Hope you’ve all had a chance to recover after Mothers Day. I’ve got a busy weekend ahead — set up for Farmers Market, play date at a Flower Club Workshop & GFG mini conference I decided on my birthday last week that I need to get out more so here we go! A change is as good as a rest ?! Well nothing much is normal that’s for sure; we have had plenty of change with the weather this week already - rain, snow, hail and sun for the last couple of days.   Our latest Product Focus Vlog...

MAY BANK HOLIDAY...will it rain or will it shine? who knows-Mother Nature has been throwing it all about! we even had a hailstorm yesterday, while the rain is welcome the chilly temperatures are not! Wednesday, Thursday and Friday deliveries only this week as couriers do not collect on Bank Holidays. Floral events to promote this week - May 7th 2021 National Flower Arranging Day May 9th 2021 Garden Day - create your flower crowns information here https://www.gardenday.co.uk/ And another reminder that Europe will be celebrating their Mother's Days during May so imported flower prices may well still be high. The...