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BRACE FOR THE HEATWAVE! Mega hot weather is expected next week with Amber/Red warnings for heatwaves across the UK.  We are planning product care carefully and coordinating with growers to make sure we refrigerate and condition everything to give it the best chance of surviving the journey to you. We have been pre-cooling boxes this week and of course our paper-wrapping means minimum condensation in the boxes. Field grown product has to be harvested and chilled carefully in order not to stress the product. Our growers are changing start times (as are we) to ensure everything - including the croppers...

CELEBRATE SUMMER! Every Week is British Flowers Week at EVOLVE This weeks news is dominated by Wimbledon and Westminster!! An apt Chinese proverb for this weeks quote! I'm sure the Great British public need cheering up as we are very much in the half year slump!! so it's on with the wobbly eyes on those lovely Lincolnshire sunflowers and some floral ice-creams made out of short stems or dried flowers to encourage some smiles!  Pictured are the novelty floral ice creams that were well received at a NAFAS Demonstration I did this week - all British grown and eco arranged...

CELEBRATE SUNFLOWERS!! Every Week is British Flowers Week at EVOLVE What a week to welcome the first of July!! AMAZING time with Gregor Lersch, my all time floral hero - incredible Master florist and huge supporter of slow grown, locally sourced flowers. He highlighted that this trend is strengthening worldwide during the demonstration and workshop that celebrated NAFAS North Midlands Diamond Anniversary at Newark. Two days of fun, friendship and flowers with some very lovely friends, florists and arrangers....then back to the farm to 'woman a production line' to process over ten thousand Lincolnshire sunflowers to go to London - Sunflowers...

SUMMER TIME! Every Week is British Flowers Week at EVOLVE Incredibly warm! field grown predicted to get a watering this weekend! Scented Pinks have come on in leaps and bounds due to the dry spring and theres plenty to go at so a special offer on this week! cropped and grown by our most senior grower!  Growers choice Mixed boxes .... there's a few crops starting and stopping as we are now into many new field crops - they are weather dependant! This enables growers to pitch up with whatever looks good!  Growers choice boxes could contain a selection of...

CELEBRATE BRITISH GROWN Every Week is British Flowers Week at EVOLVE This week was the 'official' British flowers week and I spent it doing three British themed Floral workshops for a local company who was hosting supermarket buyers, everyone had a great time and we celebrated British grown with growers and oodles of flowers in a very hot marquee!  Its incredibly warm and growers are watching for the next downpour that is forecast to crop either before or after .... as always Mother Nature challenges us! Sunny weather has brought on the sunflowers! Its officially summer now :)  Growers choice Mixed...