Tour of this Somerset flower farm May 2023

[@LaFarmhouse]

i love the gates with the posts❤❤❤it’s part of your farm style

[@theflowerfarmer]

I think they'll stay x

[@waterlily43811]

Please leave the garden gates, they remind me of my childhood. So beautiful!

[@theflowerfarmer]

ok x

[@FRASERMCGREGOR72]

I never knew I needed you in my life until now. I'm in love. What a wonderful space and a wonderfully informative presenter. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Brilliant!

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@patriciaserdahl5577]

What a wonderful tour of your gardens so beautiful thank you for sharing your Flower farm 😊🌼 🌻 🌸 🌹

[@theflowerfarmer]

pleasure x

[@honoregale856]

I love your monthly tours. It has been such a long, cold spring which must have been worrying for you. Love the deer fencing, such a structured contrast to your lush planting. Yes, please leave the gates - they add even more charm to your beautiful flower farm.

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you - yes, I think I'll just leave them standing on their own x

[@janebaker966]

I love your channel. I've just discovered it or rather the algorithm has thrown it up,thanks algo. One subscriber here!

[@theflowerfarmer]

ah thank you and you're very welcome x

[@jennysanders3328]

Love the tour as always!

[@theflowerfarmer]

you're welcome x

[@sylviawright5181]

Alls well ,that ends well ,said that very ofter ,enjoyed the tour ,👍

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@auroravalentin257]

I tried your 30 stem challenge for the first time!💕

[@theflowerfarmer]

hurrah! did you enjoy? x

[@catherinehutton2231]

I loved the bits about wild flowers. You are probably already doing this but I would love you to update each month.

[@theflowerfarmer]

I do update each month - I think we are about to (when I say we I mean Nicola who helps with the 'Tube) make a play list of the farm tours x

[@clivepierce1816]

What a beautiful smallholding. It’s great to see an abundance of native as well as cultivated flowers. We run a smallholding in the Blackdown hills and have set aside a third of our small patch of land for nature. On the coldness and the wetness of the spring, it has certainly been cooler and wetter than some recent springs, but climate statistics give a truer picture. This spring has still been significantly warmer than the late twentieth century average (by between 1 and 2 Celsius which is substantial). My records show that, for first time in many years, the flowering times of bluebells and Hawthorn for example, have been closer to their flowering times twenty to thirty years ago, but ahead of where they were fifty years ago. This phenomenon, sometimes referred to as Shifting baseline syndrome, lulls us into a false sense of security. Climate change is having increasingly profound effects on nature and our ability as growers to produce crops of every kind.

[@theflowerfarmer]

completely agree - it's not really a late spring - just relative to springs in the last ten years x

[@janetlaplaca1060]

Love the old gates!

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@helenrider8781]

Really beautiful

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@WgsuBandara-uy9db]

Wow.................... l love ...... l like wow

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@susancanning1760]

Love the garden gates.....they should stay put. Your acreage is beautiful ....so natural.

[@theflowerfarmer]

I was thinking exactly the same - we could just leave the gates standing like a feature even though all the fencing will come out x

[@aliceheidecker1853]

Such an enjoyable time!

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@lorrainehoward5446]

Many thanks, you love mother nature so much God bless.

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@catherineengle4196]

I always love your farm tours. Something always in flower and lovely. God bless

[@theflowerfarmer]

and you Catherine x

[@dinkydi8112]

Your tour was very interesting , I felt that I could smell the Hawthorn all the way down under in New Zealand ! So thank you for the memories, made me feel quite homesick. I did enjoy seeing it all. We are beginning to brace ourselves for winter here.

[@theflowerfarmer]

keep warm x

[@shanlynwebb]

You must Keep the gates. Beautiful Tadpole 💚

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@trishabrinkdesign]

Oh how lovely….& all WILL be well.💕 My favorite is the Totally Tangerine Geum. Wish it was easier to find them here stateside. It’s been 90 degrees F (32 C) here on the west coast of Washington State….🥵 too early for that nonsense….but we had a wet spring last year…my heart goes out to you!! 🙃😉

[@theflowerfarmer]

I love that Totally Tangerine x

[@lizduttom3547]

I loved the Tadpole!!❤️😘

[@theflowerfarmer]

I'm always amazed they survive the ruthless predations of the neighbourhood newts! x

[@eddreemiles5459]

I just love your KZbin channel. I am a new subscriber and it’s so enchanting to watch everything and I love your mother.

[@theflowerfarmer]

well you're very welcome xxx

[@beckyscheller9358]

Love the tour and the metal gates. Would keep it

[@theflowerfarmer]

yes I think the gates should just stand there on their own even without fencing x

[@aswinthasteketee5771]

Thank you for the garden tour. I loved it, everything looks so beautiful. 😊🙏❤️🌻🌷

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@WgsuBandara-uy9db]

Hi

[@alliward6040]

You have such a lovely farm, Georgie! The sounds of the birdsong is so peaceful. 😊

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@dorislong9420]

Loved the tour, thank you!🌺🌺

[@theflowerfarmer]

you're welcome x

[@tinablair4277]

Your garden looks beautiful so early in the season. I love your long row of hawthornes. 😊

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@sharonspencer6486]

Please leave the gates. They look so regal. They really belong there.❤😊

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@christinezarvis4761]

I found your channel last year because I saw posted a meadow tour, and I have stayed with you ever since. I love your spirit, your artistry, Teacake, your mom, etc. I live in the USA and have no interest in a floristry business, so no club for me. However, I’d pay to learn exactly how your husband established his beloved meadows. Maybe Zoom classes? Something to think about.

[@theflowerfarmer]

yes - Fabrizio does a wildflower meadow workshop here at the farm and I'm just thinking about how he could make a recording so the workshop could be available further afield - he's so shy of the camera though...

[@blobblob4468]

Looking terrific really filling out and looking lush ! ❤ A great reward for all your hard work. Thank you for the Julian if Norwich info. I love that quote but didn't realise it written at the start of a plague ! 😮❤😊

[@theflowerfarmer]

yes - imagine being so sanguine as half the population of Europe died around you x

[@judyjohn2248]

@@theflowerfarmer I've been loving a book of quotes from female medieval mystics (Julian of Norwich among them). How fascinating to contemplate long ago mental brilliance and wisdom during a harsh period in human history.

[@elizabethash4720]

Healthy, happy plants. Thankyou, lovely tour and you no longer have to worry about the deer eating your flowers, now that you have the new fence. A good story about the uncut trees and the wildlife. 😊👣🙋

[@theflowerfarmer]

thank you x

[@snowdoniaescape]

Loved the tour, wow the difference between outside and the poly tunnel! Have you thought about laying the hedges? I'm gradually working round mine and getting great results, hawthorn is covered in blossom plus it makes them much easier to manage.

[@theflowerfarmer]

I do sometimes lay a bit of hedge - I made a clip in January about a bit of hedge I laid if you fancy looking back - we try and keep the levels here very up and down partly for the sake of wildlife and partly because we need really good wind breaks to stop the weather coming racing up across the Somerset Levels to thwack the flowers on the farm x

[@ellenpaasch4743]

Georgie, I love your enthusiasm and words of wisdom. Read your flower books last month and was prompted to research all the Latin names for all plants in my gardens. You are a gem!

[@theflowerfarmer]

ah brilliant - thank you x

[@ElderandOakFarm]

Lovely tour! I just planted a large wildflower patch. This year in leaving a couple pathways to walk in! Are the buttercups like wild ranunculus? I have some growing as weeds here in Indiana, in the US that popped up in the last couple years. Loved the tadpole cameo. I wish I had a large property like yours, with large trees, hedges, ponds, etc. But I'm happy I at least have an acre...

[@theflowerfarmer]

buttercups are wild ranunculus x

[@ElderandOakFarm]

@@theflowerfarmer that's what I thought! Ty!

[@ainestewart8775]

Thank you Georgie! Truly a garden to be proud of! My little garden is infested with three- cornered leek but the flower is called snowbell and l'm determined to love it . It's our perception of things that counts!

[@jaynetanner3757]

thanks for the garden tour, we are battling with the snails and slugs, going out at night with a torch for a slug 'pick' 🤢

[@theflowerfarmer]

if you have piles of rotting wood you'll have more beetles and they'll eat the slugs x

[@jeannet9592]

Your gardens beg a walk through. I am growing apple mint for the first time this year. Does it reseed or spread for you? Thank you!

[@theflowerfarmer]

it'll spread easily unless contained so make sure you edge the space where it grows so that its shallow roots don't take over x

[@jeannet9592]

@@theflowerfarmer Ok, thank you. Typical mint, then!

[@mariabedayo315]

Where can I get Googie’s Milwaukee Japanese Snips? They’re great!

[@theflowerfarmer]

Niwaki x

[@fionasaunders7646]

Can the hedgehogs get through your new fence .?

[@theflowerfarmer]

I think they'll be able to squeeze through x

[@NapoleonIII1]

Excuse me what is the annual in the tunnel called Puplurum? l cannot identify it. Many thanks.

[@theflowerfarmer]

Bupleurum x

[@joannewilliams5589]

Do you use alliums in flower arrangements?

[@theflowerfarmer]

yes often x

[@joannewilliams5589]

I have some in my community well-being garden, I think of cutting them, but they are always covered in bees, so I leave them. Xx

[@zlatahume3134]

I have tree plants which I would like to grow but they die on me regularly and therefore I stopped trying, astrantia - daphne Odorata and hydrangea. Do you have any such a thing?😊

[@theflowerfarmer]

we gro astrantia and hydrangea paniculate limelight - both happy in our thick clay x