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We are passionate about all things flowers, and love nothing more than sharing this, sparking a passion in others too. Here, you'll find free guides and our blog packed with information about growing, seasonality, flower arranging and sustainability. Follow us and become part of the Featherstone's family.
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Download our guide to growing ranunculus, taking you through every step to cultivate vibrant blooms. This resource will give you the confidence to grow your own stunning flowers and enjoy their beauty in your garden or home.
This guide will take you through every step in arranging your spring flowers into a vase to get the very best out of them. This download will give you confidence to create your own display and enjoy sights and scents of spring in your home.
Download this guide to 10 of our favourite hardy annuals to sow in late winter or early spring. Filled with recommendations for varieties and how to achieve excellent germination for each type of flower.
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Seasonal Flowers in March – What’s Flowering Now at Featherstone Flowers
As the weather finally begins to turn from a very grey winter, we see spring exploding all around us. There is a different atmosphere here at Featherstone Flowers among the team — a little panic as we try to keep up with the myriad of jobs on the field, and real delight as the birdsong rises to a roar in the mornings. The joy of harvesting fresh green material and our own flowers from the field is catching, and we find ourselves creating arrangements simply for the sheer plea
Working Towards Eliminating Plastic
Now that we have passed the equinox it truly feels like autumn on the flower farm. At this time of year, we focus on autumn sowing,...
Late Tulips in All Their Glory: Our Favourite Varieties This Spring
Celebrating the tulips from this season, including rich and luxurious reds Earlier this week, we gathered some of our favourite...
Early Autumn Elegance at Featherstone Flowers
As autumn settles over the farm, we find ourselves surrounded by a golden transformation. The fields around us have yielded their final...
Jobs for March
You can still be sowing hardy annuals this month, including snapdragons, corncockle, phlox, clary sage, cornflower, scabious, larkspur....
Spring Seed Starting Success
Have you started sowing seeds for the year? We have started growing a range of seeds on the farm including hardy annuals and perennials...
To Do: January and February Jobs in the Garden
January is a time to hunker down with a good seed catalogue and a never ending supply of tea - we're busy planning our sowing dates and...
Is October the new March? We are as Busy as Spring
Autumn is probably as busy, if not more so, than Spring for us. We were very lucky to have avoided the early hard frosts which others...
The Benefits of Bareroot
Once upon a time the only way to obtain herbaceous perennials, shrubs and trees was to buy them bareroot in the winter. This meant...
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