The Knowledge — Crop Report

  Are we early for Christmas and late for Autumn? It seems time is running so swiftly! Evolution is happening at pace - I wouldn't even be surprised if a Pterodactyl flew over after hearing that Woolly Mammoths are being genetically engineered?!? This week is National Recycling Week September 20, 2021 - September 26, 2021 Recycle Week encourages people to recycle more through advertising campaigns and partnerships with big companies and well-known brands. In 2021, Recycle Week will run from 20th to 26th September. The theme for this year is 'Step It Up this Recycle Week'.This is an ideal time...

  What a difference a week makes!? - last weeks night temperatures were around 16c and that slowed some crops down to almost a standstill. This week we melt in 28c and it seems these extremes are more likely to continue as climate change throws us additional challenges.  This is why we consider our environmental impact in everything we do and focus on British grown flowers first and foremost.  National Recycling Week is later this month September 20, 2021 - September 26, 2021 Recycle Week encourages people to recycle more through advertising campaigns and partnerships with big companies and well-known...

  BACK TO SCHOOL! It's the beginning of September and children will finally experience some sense of normality and routine - the new normal anyway. Autumn has well and truly arrived with the fresh Hop vines arriving this week and next to fulfill the pre-orders.  Loads of dried products are being sent out and our "Preserve Summer Embrace Autumn" collection hits the outlets this week, already proving popular as consumers get closer to nature and more in tune with seasonality.  The weather is certainly making us feel like Autumn is here already with nights as cool as 16c which has...

  Bank holiday weekend and the last opportunity for summer escapes before the children go back to school. We will be staying here and completing the year-end stock take while commenting on the slow moving traffic on the road to the coast! Wishing you all a sunny weekend. Loads of dried products are being sent out and our "Preserve Summer Embrace Autumn" collection hits the outlets this week, already proving popular as consumers get closer to nature and more in tune with seasonality. Carthamus is coming in for drying and a little limited, plenty of Gyp and Eryngium Blue Lagoon...

  This week the theme has been 'preserving summer & embracing autumn'  The barn roof is covered with several hundred British grown bunches of flowers drying for the winter months and of course the festive season (i didn't say it!) The changing of the seasons is healthy for us to recognise, it is a chance to 'reset' and to know that, despite the madness of the world right now we’re moving forwards. The only constant is change.  I've been having fun creating new novelty designs with the first flowers out of the dryer and down from the roof. Changing the...