What 5 top qualities do you need to grow flowers for sale?

Flower farmer and florist Georgie Newbery from Common Farm Flowers in Somerset shows you round her flower farm while talking about the five necessities for being a flower farmer.
If you enjoy the tips and tricks Georgie gives you here, the link to her Buy Me a Coffee page is Here: You can buy me a coffee here www.buymeacoff...
You can join Georgie online or at the farm for her career change flower farming workshop, which students from around the world attend:
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Find out more about how Georgie manages her year on her online 'The Flower Farmer's Year' workshop www.commonfarm....
And you might like her book of the same name! www.commonfarm....
If you'd like to join Georgie on any of her other flower farming, floristry or small business workshops do have a look at the calendar here and book your place: www.commonfarm....
If you're booking a place on our workshops the website will ask you to choose a delivery date - any date will do! And if you can't join the session live then you are still very welcome to book as we send the recording and notes of the workshop out to everyone afterwards, so you can download the session and refer back to it as and when you need to.
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[@tinaelliott2857]

Hi Georgia, love your concepts of breaking it down into 5 steps to know if you're cut out to be a flower farmer. Having recently left an office desk job of 25years plus, I've been muddling along figuring out my what next gig :) and have already been dabbling a bit in the makings of selling things grown/made of our hand/land. It's very rewarding sharing something of a passion, and love watching your enthusiasm and your down to earth approach. Would be a dream to visit your flower garden some day, from chilly cold Saskatchewan, Canada :)

[@theflowerfarmer]

hello Saskatchewan xxx

[@jennyjohnson3689]

We just bought 22 acres in East Texas and I just want to tell you that I LOVE your personality ♥️ I could listen to you talk all day. Love your enthusiasm!

[@theflowerfarmer]

Ah Thankyou xxx

[@gardengirl7446]

YOU are FABULOUS

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@sarahsnyder3798]

Love your accent, ! 🎉

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@irynalange8124]

Thank you very much! Energy - main thing that I need for this type of business!

[@theflowerfarmer]

Best of luck! x

[@alisonburgess345]

Fantastic video Georgie. This will be my semi-retirement side income and i will be growing flowers furiously out of sheer love of growing things, with no crappy full time job to steal my time. I've got about quarter of an acre for flowers, with a pretty short growing season. I've studied your book, "The Flower Farmer's Year" very closely - it's my bible!

[@theflowerfarmer]

Great - we have lots of workshops - both here at the farm and online - have a look at our website and book a place x

[@mmladyg]

You are remarkable here. So glad the commenter on Bloom & Gray--also remarkable--mentioned you!

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you - I'll have to ping over and say hi to Bloom and Gray x

[@sandrabright4101]

Peter rabbit comes to mind with the fencing. Lovely informative video.

[@theflowerfarmer]

Peter rabbit was in mind when we fenced x

[@deidrepluke8346]

Loved listening to you. Its my first time on your channel. You're honest and so down to earth and enjoy what you have to say. Im in Cape Town, South Africa and not sure if any of your plant advice would help me with my little home garden in our climate. But just listening to you has inspired me to get my hands dirty and get gardening!!

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you so much x

[@gardengirl7446]

Mrs Wilson LOL always THAT teacher who messes up one's life! 😅

[@theflowerfarmer]

there's always one x

[@christelwurnitsch4369]

Love it, Georgia , love it. You are "real" I learn so much from you. Hello from San Francisco Cal.

[@theflowerfarmer]

Hello San Fran! X

[@Carol-rw2lx]

hello I'm new friend watching your video its amazing garden its beautiful flowers huge place to plant thanks for sharing Sending for you big support well done

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you and welcome x

[@tmzumba]

Stunning!

[@theflowerfarmer]

Thank you! 😊 x

[@justme9100]

I planted my first cut flower garden this year, all from seed. Huge learning experience. I may sell some in jars but hardly ready to call myself a flower farmer...haha, maybe next year 😊

[@theflowerfarmer]

Good luck x

[@Olivia54984]

Have started binge-watching your videos! Love them!

[@theflowerfarmer]

Hurray!

[@hollyharbz5092]

Oh Georgie, I've just discovered your channel and have been binge watching all morning! I'm sowing my own cutting garden at the moment and this video has been a blessing and pleasure. Thankyou so much 😊

[@theflowerfarmer]

Have fun! xxx

[@amandadoyle2676]

loved this garden tour was a joy

[@theflowerfarmer]

Ah Thankyou x

[@chb3710]

Thank you for your knowledge/input

[@theflowerfarmer]

My pleasure!

[@jgreen8298]

So informative! Thank you for sharing your talents and knowledge!

[@theflowerfarmer]

My pleasure x

[@sharonloves]

I agree with you we all have our preferred methods and as they say variety is the spice of life. I love my gardening becauseI an be creative listen to nature for timing and planning anything else, well not to be redundant it’s personal preference.👍

[@theflowerfarmer]

Well said! x

[@colette8694]

Thank you! 🌸

[@theflowerfarmer]

Welcome! x

[@brankenflowery8416]

Thank you! I appreciate your support and help. I am starting my farm next spring.

[@theflowerfarmer]

Good luck!

[@jannettezaldana944]

Just found you from Minnesota and I’m in love with you! 💐🌸🌻🌷

[@theflowerfarmer]

Ah Thankyou x

[@MichelleCorbinDesign]

Oh Georgie I feel your pain with maths. I fight that everyday too. In my textile business I have just got an accountant and really wish I had done it sooner. Thank you for another wonderful video your advice is gold. Next year I want to do one of your online workshops for sure xx

[@theflowerfarmer]

hurrah - see you in 2023 xxx

[@Samantha-ps2vv]

Love all of your tips and common sense approach to everything!

[@theflowerfarmer]

Thanks so much! x

[@jenniferhewson3079]

This is do interesting and inspiring x

[@theflowerfarmer]

Thankyou x

[@lindsaybertin8174]

So glad I've found you're channel, brilliant information, thank you

[@theflowerfarmer]

My pleasure x

[@Barbara-yj5tl]

This was great. What great advice for anyone wanting to become a flower farmer & love your honestly and openness. (you remind me of Fern Britton and sound like Carol Thatcher…xx

[@theflowerfarmer]

You are so welcome! x

[@alanpenny3485]

That was great Georgie, and I got the chance to study that turning of the bouquet in progress again !👍🏻😘 Lorraine x

[@theflowerfarmer]

Great Lorraine xxx Thankyou for watching x

[@amandadoyle2676]

amazing advice loved it i can watch and listen to you 24 7 am loving your channel will watch the workshops as so want to grow and sell myself from my own garden

[@theflowerfarmer]

Excellent x

[@rachelalder2182]

Yep i started as a small scale grower and ended up a commercial florist .. 14 hour days standard ... And id like a seventy hour week ... It would be a short week ...

[@theflowerfarmer]

It's crazy that people work so hard - not really sustainable - I'm glad my seventy hour weeks are generally just end Feb through mid June and then it calms down a bit. I'm sure you're the same in that you manage your time pretty minutely in order to be able to make as much time for real life as possible. I'm very conscious that mine is a lifestyle business, and that while I enjoy it enormously, and am privileged that my commute to work is a gentle stroll across the yard, the point of the exercise is not to work incredibly hard, but to make the most of what we do, make enough of a living, and make sure there's time to stand back and watch the bees swarming, or whatever amazing event happens each day. This week has been crazy with me driving to London Sunday afternoon so that I could be at the Chelsea Flower Show because I'd been invited to be an observer of the floristry judging at 6am Monday, then back to Somerset for cutting wedding one Tuesday, back to London for a talk and demo Wednesday - driving because the trains are so unreliable. Then cutting weddings two and three Thursday, creating wedding three Friday (wedding two was ten large buckets of cut stems for a DIY event,) and yesterday (Saturday) pushing on through catching up with admin (next year's tulips won't order themselves!) Today just taking an hour to read the paper and drink coffee before it's all hands to the deck prepping beds for planting dahlias. I feel as though I'm beind, but dahlias generally don't get planted out here till first June so I have a few days in hand. My New Year's resolution this year was to do less, better. I'm still getting there. I hope you enjoy your Sunday and get some time off xxx

[@melindawycoff5627]

Brilliant. I live in Houston, Texas (which is as far as possible from being a flower farmer) but I enjoyed every minute of this video.

[@theflowerfarmer]

Ah Thankyou - must feel as though from another world x

[@deborahjohnston267]

Loved it Georgie - you make so much sense - thank you for sharing.

[@theflowerfarmer]

Ah Thankyou - I do my best x

[@janestewart2982]

Thank you, Georgie very informative 💗

[@theflowerfarmer]

My pleasure - glad you enjoyed it x

[@ElderandOakFarm]

I agree with everything you've said in this video!

[@theflowerfarmer]

Ah Thankyou x

[@flowerfairy1950]

Labour of Love for the dedicated

[@theflowerfarmer]

That’s true x

[@thegreenwoodelf8014]

Love your channel 😁🙏🏻🌿💚 ima subcriba 💐✊🏼... got a lot of those prerequisites 🤔🤔

[@theflowerfarmer]

Thanks for subbing! x

[@kimcarlsen4391]

Hi Kim for New York loved your video

[@theflowerfarmer]

Thankyou x

[@kathrynmettelka7216]

Highly useful information. I will never grow flowers professionally, but I am establishing a cutting garden for my own use and to give flowers to friends. All the requirements you promulgate are in play, except that the amount of work will be reduced I hope. I'm slightly younger than your fabulous mother, but with sciatica, 2 replacement knees, and asthma. I still love gardening!

[@theflowerfarmer]

Good luck and happy digging!

[@AAA-hf8yo]

You’re the best darling 👍

[@amyjones2490]

I would love to see what kinds of shrubs you are using. Im hoping to add flowers to our farm sales.

[@theflowerfarmer]

Good idea for another clip x

[@jackiesflowerfarm3874]

If you put all the pots into a tray and fill them with compost pop in you finger and plant them up all at the same time you will save a great deal of your time .work smarter and also when spiral img you bq if you go in the same direction you will make a much better hand tie . Flower farmer from Lancashire.

[@theflowerfarmer]

I am a keen spiraller - and teach people often that flower farming is all about systems in order to manage time effectively - but that's for the tips all the same x

[@daveswords2112]

Awesome videos full of knowledge. Do you use cover crops over winter?

[@theflowerfarmer]

not much cover cropping - a little phacelia - but we don't have much empty space over winter - biennials and tulips take place of annuals and dahlias for example x

[@amandaharalambous3042]

Georgie thank you for this. I've been flower farming for one year and I LOVE it. I wake up most days at 6 and can't WAIT to get out and pick/weed/sow ect. The knowledge is still coming but your book really helped me! Can you please tell me what the lovely airy white flower is at 20mins in on the video? xx

[@theflowerfarmer]

You are so welcome!

[@TheFragrantBunch]

It looks like Ammi / Queen Anne's Lace :)

[@theflowerfarmer]

@@TheFragrantBunch yes ammi x we grow a LOT x

[@melodywhealdon2072]

at some point do you check the stems to see if they are in fact long enough to be in water once they are in a vase? Some of them looked on the short side compared to others. Once they are buried in the stems, it is hard to see them. I am assuming that once you finished that, you cut the stems all very short and uniform and it was placed in a vase? I will be honest, it is a bit of a pet-peeve of mine to see designers arrange in a video, sometimes into a vase, and I can see that there is no way some of the stems will reach the water and stay hydrated. You don't do that normally, and I very much enjoy your videos, by the way.

[@theflowerfarmer]

glad you enjoy the vids - yes the sweet peas get sorted - some are posy length but longer stems useful for bigger arrangements. As the season progresses I happily cut hard into the sweet pea plants to get longer stems with leaves and tendrils too to add interest x

[@elaineelmore9972]

What is that airy white beauty?!? 🌸💞

[@theflowerfarmer]

I''m trying to think back to the clip without watching it through looking for a white, airy beauty... possibly ammi magus?

[@noreenhallett7366]

I have about 4 pocket hankies on various levels

[@theflowerfarmer]

Ooh maybe not flower farming then x

[@noreenhallett7366]

@@theflowerfarmer I do have 2 greenhouses as well. Surprising what you can squeeze in What I have got is two very large flower heads on my palm trees. Not sure how they would fit in an arrangement

[@lynndeessflowersfamily434]

I love your apron do you sell them?

[@theflowerfarmer]

One day I will x

[@mossgrovewrites]

Is the white flower at 22:30ish also ammi?? It’s really stunning and adds a sparkle!

[@theflowerfarmer]

It’s gypsophyla Covent Garden x

[@auto0967]

Your bouquets are beautiful I’m thinking about growing my own flowers But I don’t know where to start

[@theflowerfarmer]

if you have good rich soil start with sweet peas and dahlias and you won't look back x

[@LaFarmhouse]

lové 💗

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@claresa]

❤️❤️❤️

[@noreenhallett7366]

First thing is enough space

[@theflowerfarmer]

I put knowledge first then space x but energy matters most of all - flower farming is an endurance sport x

[@helenyoung8012]

👍👏 thankyou

[@theflowerfarmer]

My pleasure c