Many months late in posting but great to be able to share this fantastic photos. This was an early August wedding but using the full colours of autumn for a rich autumnal glow. All flowers grown and arranged in Ayrshire by Mayfield Flowers as always. All photographs by Nikki Leadbetter in the beautiful venue of Dalduff Farm in Ayrshire. The …
September Wedding
Autumn is a great season for locally grown flowers as you can enjoy the best of the summer flowers as well as the fruits of autumn such as berries, seed pods and changing colour of leaves. Here is a look back to a September wedding at Dalduff Farm where we incorporated all these elements in a glorious autumn wedding. Photos …
Highland summer wedding
As I am writing this the weather is feeling distinctly like September (and it is only August) reminding me to post these photos from a late July wedding last year before we move off into autumn colours properly. Neil and Tierney chose to have DIY wedding buckets to decorate the village hall themselves with bridal work from me. The last …
How to DIY your wedding flowers
Are you getting married soon? Perhaps you are on a tight budget but want lots of flowers or perhaps you want the freedom to create as much of your day as possible, or maybe your venue is in a far flung place in Scotland with no florists nearby. Have you considered doing your own wedding flowers? We can supply buckets …
Grow and Arrange Cut Flowers – New 2019 workshop
Whilst few of us live in stately homes with a walled garden and gardener tasked with providing fresh flowers weekly or daily to extravagantly fill rooms with flowers, we can all bring natural beauty indoors. Join us to learn how to fill your home with flowers. We are running a new seasonal creative class that will enable you to choose …
Hurtling towards autumn
You can feel it in the air somehow. Is it the colder mornings? The colder nights? Or the fact that it is getting dark around 8.30pm? Whatever it is I definitely feel autumn in the air. The swallows flew the nest last week and they are busy practising for the long flight home and leaves are starting to turn. I …
Natural Dyeing
Having Babs from Botanical Inks run a workshop to explore natural dyeing from flowers raised a few questions I hadn’t thought on despite believing I was rooted in the soil and valued Nature. By growing flowers for the purpose of selling each stem, flowers become a commodity. Being asked to consider the plant before cutting may result in unfulfilled orders …
Natural Flower Summer workshops
Perfect summer weather for workshops this year and our summer programme continues with a special guest, Babs Behan, all the way from Bristol to host a natural textile dyeing workshop here at Mayfield Flowers on 18th August showing a different way to use our natural flowers. Babs founded the artisan natural dye studio Botanical Inks and is sought after around …
We are 10
2018 marks 10 years since I had the slightly mad idea of growing cut flowers in Scotland to add bit of natural abundance to the usual cut flower offerings from abroad. It certainly was a mad idea – I had only heard of one other person doing it in Scotland and two in England! We could have a growing site …
The Road to Chelsea
Flowers from the Farm is a network of small scale British cut flower growers which I joined when it first began about 7 years ago. Its sole aim is to promote British cut flowers and what better way than to exhibit at Chelsea Flower Show 2018, that pinnacle of the horticultural calendar? Gill Hodgson, founder, led a team of Flowers …