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Common Farm Flowers
United Kingdom
Приєднався 17 жов 2018
We are flower farmers and florists based between Bruton and Wincanton in Somerset. We create hand tied bouquets which are available for local collection or delivery to BA (UK) postcodes, do fabulous flowers for weddings and events, and teach masses of workshops - both online and face to face at Common Farm.
The point of my UA-cam channel is to inspire and enable people to grow flowers and arrange with them for the sake of their environment, their creative mental health, and often to help them make a living.
Order all British flowers from us at www.commonfarmflowers.com, book a place on a workshop or garden tour, or enquire about wedding or event flowers. We only ever use grown not flown British flowers in our floristry, and our plot, seen here, is held as a haven for wildlife as well as worked as a flower farm.
Subscribe to our channel for top gardening tips, reminders of jobs to do in the gardening year, and styling tips for house and garden.
The point of my UA-cam channel is to inspire and enable people to grow flowers and arrange with them for the sake of their environment, their creative mental health, and often to help them make a living.
Order all British flowers from us at www.commonfarmflowers.com, book a place on a workshop or garden tour, or enquire about wedding or event flowers. We only ever use grown not flown British flowers in our floristry, and our plot, seen here, is held as a haven for wildlife as well as worked as a flower farm.
Subscribe to our channel for top gardening tips, reminders of jobs to do in the gardening year, and styling tips for house and garden.
A tour of the May wildflowers here at CommonFarm in Somerset #nomowmay
It's late spring here at Common Farm Flowers in sunny Somerset and the wildflowers are beginning to pop all over the place. To go with #nomowmay, let's have a walk around the fields here and see what wildflowers we can find flowering and what's to come.
If anyone would like a place on Fabrizio's Perennial Wildflower Meadow workshop at the farm in June, the link to book is here
www.commonfarmflowers.com/collections/workshops-at-the-farm/products/create-a-perennial-wildflower-meadow-workshop
For a discount on website orders, an ad-free version of this clip, all the info re the redesign of the flower farm and the new studio being created in the field, and all Georgie's new clips with extra tips, news and regular live at 5s, do join her UA-cam club. You can join up here via the links on our homepage. The club costs £8.99 per month (join via a desktop or mobile browser. Joining via the UA-cam app pushes cost up to £11.99 per month!)
For a full list of workshops and demos held by flower farmer and florist Georgie Newbery, including ones on running a small business, see our website for more details and to book your place www.commonfarmflowers.com/pages/workshop-calendar
If you enjoy the tips and tricks Georgie gives you here, or would simply like to support the channel, the link to her Buy Me a Coffee page is here: www.buymeacoffee.com/COMMONFARM
#wildflowermeadow #meadows #wildflowers #wildlife #wildlifegarden #nomowmay #lookaftertheinvertebrates #beefriendly #ponds
If anyone would like a place on Fabrizio's Perennial Wildflower Meadow workshop at the farm in June, the link to book is here
www.commonfarmflowers.com/collections/workshops-at-the-farm/products/create-a-perennial-wildflower-meadow-workshop
For a discount on website orders, an ad-free version of this clip, all the info re the redesign of the flower farm and the new studio being created in the field, and all Georgie's new clips with extra tips, news and regular live at 5s, do join her UA-cam club. You can join up here via the links on our homepage. The club costs £8.99 per month (join via a desktop or mobile browser. Joining via the UA-cam app pushes cost up to £11.99 per month!)
For a full list of workshops and demos held by flower farmer and florist Georgie Newbery, including ones on running a small business, see our website for more details and to book your place www.commonfarmflowers.com/pages/workshop-calendar
If you enjoy the tips and tricks Georgie gives you here, or would simply like to support the channel, the link to her Buy Me a Coffee page is here: www.buymeacoffee.com/COMMONFARM
#wildflowermeadow #meadows #wildflowers #wildlife #wildlifegarden #nomowmay #lookaftertheinvertebrates #beefriendly #ponds
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Cutting a wholesale wedding flowers order and creating a little something for Number 1 Bruton in May
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An early morning tour of the flower farm cutting a bespoke wholesale order for my friend and client @Fleur_Provocateur . I've cut a little extra, not exactly the same as her order, but similar, and I'm making a piece with what I've cut so that you can see the kind of work she might make with my harvest. It's very good as a grower to imagine how the client might work with the material I grow, an...
Common Good plant sales are go! Here’s how ours in Charlton Musgrove went x
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Did you hold a #commongoodplantsale today? How did yours go? Here’s ours - and what fun we had! Lots of ideas for next year - which, if you’d like to start planning yours will be 10th May 2025 - so a date for your calendar and lots of inspiration here. Let’s change the world - one little plant at a time. #rippleeffect #villagelife #englishcountryside #fundraising #charityfundraiser #raisemoney ...
Let’s see how to make one of these fashionable floral pocket squares x
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This new fashion for floral pocket squares for weddings is so attractive and charming I had to have a go. Join me as I work out how to make them and then have a go yourself. I have to say I LOVE them and anticipate a great many in my order book in the future. For a discount on website orders, an ad-free version of this clip, all the info re the redesign of the flower farm and the new studio bei...
Update on the writing process - good news!
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Well about this time last year I committed to writing a book - and to my astonishment I find I have. With great help (again!) from life coach Alice Armstrong-Scales www.armstrongscalescoaching.com/ I have a manuscript to edit - and I'm determined to get that first edit finished by the time of The Chelsea Flower Show in less than three weeks. I hope this clip is helpful for any of you with writi...
It’s a fifteen hundred stem cut day - come along with me as I harvest all these flowers
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The end of April and our local five star hotel and garden attraction The Newt is having a flower festival this coming weekend. My friends and colleagues are helping me with my order by delivering flowers for the flower crowns which will be made with them later today. And I'm cutting all the flowers for the big displays here from the fields at Common Farm. Come along and see what I cut for for a...
Fun food and flowers for a relaxed family party
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Fun food and flowers for a relaxed family party
How I became a flower farmer - a long journey with many twists, turns and skills transferred x
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How I became a flower farmer - a long journey with many twists, turns and skills transferred x
Four new books about flowers - book reviews
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Four new books about flowers - book reviews
Welcome to the Common Farm Flowers YouTube Channel
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Welcome to the Common Farm Flowers UA-cam Channel
A tour of the amazing 3/4 acre garden of legendary gardener and quilter 84 year old Googie, my Mum x
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A tour of the amazing 3/4 acre garden of legendary gardener and quilter 84 year old Googie, my Mum x
A chat with leading luxury wedding florist Caroline Redpath of Fleur Provocateur
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A chat with leading luxury wedding florist Caroline Redpath of Fleur Provocateur
Common Good Plant Sale - tips for holding a plant sale
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Common Good Plant Sale - tips for holding a plant sale
A walk on the wild side here at Common Farm Flowers - wildflowers give reassurance and perspective
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A walk on the wild side here at Common Farm Flowers - wildflowers give reassurance and perspective
A visit to artist Katie James’ artist’s house and garden - jewel colours and a rich palette x
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A visit to artist Katie James’ artist’s house and garden - jewel colours and a rich palette x
April tour of this Somerset Flower Farm
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April tour of this Somerset Flower Farm
Join me harvesting spring flowers and creating arrangements for a house full of flowers for Easter
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Join me harvesting spring flowers and creating arrangements for a house full of flowers for Easter
A morning at the home of style icon Rachel Ashwell founder of Shabby Chic and creator of much more x
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A morning at the home of style icon Rachel Ashwell founder of Shabby Chic and creator of much more x
Why holding a charity plant sale is not difficult and can do immeasurable good x
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Why holding a charity plant sale is not difficult and can do immeasurable good x
Let’s tour the pre-season flower farm and see if we can cut 250 stems …
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Let’s tour the pre-season flower farm and see if we can cut 250 stems …
How to deal with social media overwhelm as a small business
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How to deal with social media overwhelm as a small business
A list of this gardener’s fave tools - enjoy!
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A list of this gardener’s fave tools - enjoy!
For #internationalwomensday a clip on why you might have a lot of what it takes to farm flowers x
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For #internationalwomensday a clip on why you might have a lot of what it takes to farm flowers x
Early spring day in the life of this flower farmer: or who needs the gym when you can barrow mulch
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Early spring day in the life of this flower farmer: or who needs the gym when you can barrow mulch
Top tips if you fancy a rave up at the garden centre this first weekend in March x
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Top tips if you fancy a rave up at the garden centre this first weekend in March x
How we make flowers for a tiny late winter wedding - all #britishflowers with hints of spring
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How we make flowers for a tiny late winter wedding - all #britishflowers with hints of spring
Let’s go for a February walk around the garden and cut for a #30stemchallenge
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Let’s go for a February walk around the garden and cut for a #30stemchallenge
Let’s all hold small charity plant sales on 11th May and together make a huge difference
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Let’s all hold small charity plant sales on 11th May and together make a huge difference
How I fill my greenhouse with all those seeds I sowed in the previous clip so that they’ll germinate
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How I fill my greenhouse with all those seeds I sowed in the previous clip so that they’ll germinate
Seed sowing season: a good time to reflect on how small businesses focus on more than just turnover
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Seed sowing season: a good time to reflect on how small businesses focus on more than just turnover
So pretty ❤!
Happy beautiful flowers with the perfect song.❤️. TeresaSue
Oh Georgie I love you and I love your pocket square of joy! I love you used sweet wills when so many people are snooty about them. Making one for a wedding next week! Thanks for the lovely helpful how-to! x
Absolutely awesome to see the devotion to nature , loved the tour and appreciate the work you both do to preserve your little peace of our world ❤️
Nuts that an insurance co think that apple trees would cause subsidence. ffs
Love your look
Beautiful
Thank you x
That pocket square is absolutely beautiful!!!
they're fun aren't they x
If you just nature do its thing - you will have beautiful wild flowers, herbs, and an abundance of bees and insects.
the abundance is wonderful x
How lovely to have some ducklings! So much smarter than chickens - and much more personality, too. Their eggs are also twice the size, and best of all, they don't get those horrid mites that chickens are plagued with. They'll be so good for picking off the slugs and snails around your patch - geese are also brill for this. To me, there is no more delightful sight than ducks and geese waddling around a meadow, paddling around their pond, honking and quacking as if they owned the place! Holding their heads up high, ducks always seem so pleased and proud to be ducks! You'll have to build them a QUACK SHACK!
lol - they are hilarious - they are about three times the size they were when they arrived - Fabrizio needs to finish their house quickly! x
Could we not film the elusive Fabrizio teaching all about wildflower fields? Maybe block out his face? Lol thanks for all the information.
lol - easier said than done - he's very shy x
The perfect match, the extrovert & introvert. Happy growing!
Vast numbers of aphids in London this week, by me
hurrah! x
I am really passionate about wild flowers also and have deliberately planted over 100 varieties of wildflower in my cottage garden
how fantastic x
What a refreshing vlog. Such biodiversity in Fabrizios meadow....and the ponds and dead mounds of wood are so necessary as part of it all. Imagine just how many insects, hedgehogs and newts, frogs and lizards as well as birds make use of all these wild flowers? I was wondering what small area of my garden could become a no mow, meadow. Refreshing to watch, Jo from the rocky isles in New Zealand, and the land of the long white cloud "Aotearoa".
You don't need much room. I made a clip a little while ago at my friend Katie's house and in her long London garden she's made a fantastic mini wildflower meadow x
We make blight spray from a decoction of mare's tail. Seems to work.
genius! x
Would Fabrizio consider sharing his class with all of us? This was the most delightful walk around❣️ Thank you🌱🌼🌷🌸🪻🌾🪿🐸
he's very shy - one day maybe x
I loved this vlog.We have exactly what you're saying Georgie. We're on a farm with fields of buttercups, daisies and rose bay willow herb. Our garden just outside the house has one area for cut flowers and a small pond, and the rest we let grow wild, just cutting a path through it. It looks amazing on a sunny day and the wildlife thrives. We have beautiful butterflies, woodpeckers, all manner of finches, blue tits and two robins. When we moved here there was nothing so we're more than happy. We all have to do our bit to help our native species xx
fantastic xxx
How lovely. Unfortunately when we leave our edges we are overwhelmed with brambles. Obviously we love blackberries but they do take over if left.
you can work away at the brambles and then get lovely edges - xxx we have the same here x
Lovely to see so many wild flowers and great to see the before and after teasels (I have a particular interest as my road is ‘Teasel Drive’) 🤗
brilliant! x
What a thoroughly enjoyable vlog Georgie.👍 You so knowledgeable and interesting.😊
thank you x
Hello from NC USA. Love your videos and your respect for nature!
thank you x
Gorgeous meadow Georgie . What a lovely stroll in the garden it would be. We in Australia have to be careful what we plant so that it doesn’t escape and becomes a weed. I live on the side of a reserve (nature reserve) and I try not to plant anything that will escape and become a problem in the reserve. I have all sorts of creatures and birds that visit my garden and feast on my plants.
your garden sounds lovely x
I really loved this video. I have half an acre that I want to let go back to wildflowers and grasses however, this area has a high incidence of ticks so the field gets cut. Long grasses seem to be their habitat. But maybe create paths in the field so we and animals can walk through safely while leaving the rest for wildflowers to flourish. Thanks!
we deer fenced because we had a lot of deer and then tics too - I know what you mean x
@@theflowerfarmer thanks for your answer. 🌷I think it’s good you’ve pointed out that life doesn’t stop because of ticks. We just have to adapt, with fencing, wearing long pants and/or spraying our legs before going into the field and checking after. We already protect ourselves against black flies, strong sun rays etc.👍
I just got home to Ohio from a holiday in the mountains of West Virginia. While hubby was fly fishing for trout I headed back in flowering-time up the mountain. Millions of wildflowers in the roadside verges all the way up. Many of them the same as English ones. But add into the picture kalmia on the forest edges, then bright, deep pink, azalea, then every shade of orange azalea, which the West Virginians call honeysuckle. All blooming as far as the eye can see. On the top of the mountain was a forest of amelanchier with an understory of blueberries, currants, and strawberries. I grew up in Lancashire on the edge of a water meadow and learned to love all the same flowers that you have in your meadow. Our garden boundary was a deep hawthorn hedge under which we feral children had our cozy dry dens. And a bank of bluebells led down into the field. What a treasure our native wildflowers are.
sounds lovely xxx
Georgie. You are my people. This talk has inspired me incredibly. I am an ex performer and musician, an artist, writer and yoga teacher and now budding flower farmer. I love what you said about false modesty and anthropology. You have freshly inspired my desire to work hard, follow my nose, learn and grow organically and uniquely. I really value you and not just for flower farming tips. You to me are a fabulous mentor, one of those special people you talk about. Keep going! In what ever you choose to do. 🌸
go for it x
Enjoyed that very much indeed thanks. You're so brave leaving the stingers and docs to get on with it.
Glad you enjoyed it x
Can't come to the class. Live across the pond in New Jersey 😢
it's hard to film him because he forgets we're filming and walks off and won't be filmed himself - one day maybe I'll persuade him x
Oh how I wish clubbers could be part of this class by Fabrizio (sorry about the spelling). Georgie I could follow you around like a shadow, perhaps an annoying one 😂. Thank you ❤
lol xxx
What a lovely meadow....& no nasty dandelion!
Sorry but I love dandelions, if you leave the plant is very architectural and really does not spread that much with lovely flowers and dandelion clock after. You can use in salads as it is bitter and adds umami and root is beneficial too. Just a different view of things 😊
Also dandelions are one of the earliest flowers for pollinators to access. 🦋🐝
we love the dandelions - and so do the bees xxx we've had lots but they flower earlier so now mostly seedheads blowing in the wind x
and the bees need dandelions in early spring for lunch x
Love the wildflower meadow and absolutely love that you protect the newts! Your viburnum looks like mine, here in the US, that I call Cranberry Viburnum.
thank you x
Georgie, every single video is a welcome tonic to the soul. Thank you.
thank you x
So interesting thank you 😊 be interesting to see how it develops over the summer
I'll film again in a month or so x
Herb Robert! I have it everywhere, too, here in Oregon, USA. Stinky Bob, we call it ; )
I love it - it does have a strong smell x
Thank you for introducing me to Sarah O'Keefe Spargrove shirts. I've been ordering them for the past 3 years. They aren't cheap, but in terms of cost per wear are superb value. Live in them during Summer. Thank you!
my pleasure - totes agree - one a year and they wear and wear and wear and so far don't wear out x
The 3/4 sleeve ones are good for cooler weather too!
I've always had herb Robert in my garden, it is stunningly beautiful simplicity
agree x
Absolutely gorgeous Georgie. My goodness you are a walking naturalistic Encyclopedia. You teach us so much and I love learning the way you explain things. Just out of interest we had subsidence and we solved it by putting an extension on the property and having supporting walls abutting the wall that was subsiding. Obviously ask your structural engineer first about this idea. I really enjoyed watching this, thank you thank you, thinking of your Dad and hoping he is feeling a bit better. ❤ From Tina and Richard ❤
thanks for the top tip re subsidence - I'm all out of £££ for the moment having nearly finished the new studio up the field - nearly - but if I win the lottery... xxx
Beautiful! Thank you!
you're welcome x
Thank-God for people like yourselves who really care about bio- diversity and natural living,It lifts me up to see this dedication, Thank-you for all your efforts lovely, am in love with vivid orange geums who seem to love all the incredible wet winter and sloshing about.
yes the geums are having an excellent spring aren't they x
They are my birthday flower & my grandmother always had them in her garden🌸
happy birthday x
I’m training in floristry now but my background is in horticulture and wildlife conservation so I love the nature tours. It’s absolutely stunning and gorgeous! ❤ thank you for sharing with us.
you're welcome x
Assuredly as the sun rises…flowers in the house are a true gift from God, thank you for being his ambassador 🌷💐🌷
you're welcome x
Apologies if I am wrong but they look like spanish bluebells with the flowers all round the stem? Beautiful meadow
oddly I think not Spanish but just very over - we do have a clump of Spanish bluebells in the ditch by the road where they've jumped over from a neighbour and they are much bigger, stronger and heavier stemmed than these x
@@theflowerfarmer ah thank you. We have a footpath by us where people have dumped Spanish bluebells next to our natives. I take salt, and put it in the centre of the clump, but I am fighting a losing battle, as I am now seeing plants that are definitely a cross, so I remove the flowers. Your meadow is a paradise, all those orchids ❤️ thank you
I tried this in my front yard and side yard, but living here in Memphis, Tennessee l was written up for having over grown weed's 😢
oh no! x
Love the different combinations of the colors of green 💚
yes it's very lush this spring after the wet winter we've had x
Very true.👍☘️
glad you agree x
I haven’t smelled these, but I could imagine! I’ve smelled gardenia and was surprised how it’s so fragrant.😊
lovely scent x
I don't blame them. I would too. Absolutely gorgeous scent. 😊
true x
Wonderful service to the world. I’m in awe of you, Georgie. Congrats on raising so much money and awareness! Cheers!xx
it was a great day - we'll do it all again next year x
Lovely arrangement, 👏👏👏 thankyou for introducing me to sweet rocket, I have a mass of lavender colour on an allotment bed, I’ve given so many bunches of it away and it has a lovely fragrance ,, Best wishes, Lisa
thank you x