09/09/2026
It's Zero Waste Week, and rather than tell you how green we are, we thought we'd show you the behind the scenes version.
The good bits first. Everything from the plot gets composted and goes straight back into the soil, and the compost heaps have become home to slow worms and have even provided a warm spot for a partridge. We source unwrapped British grown flowers straight from the fields wherever we can or flowers wrapped in paper, as championed for a long time by . Our packaging is made from recycled materials and can be reused, composted or recycled, and we'd love you to keep the recycled-glass jars, then compost your flowers or pop them in the green bin once they're past their best. Some of our customers enjoy photographing, painting, drying and pressing the flowers so they last even longer!
But there's always more to do. As a family, we recycle everything we can but we still waste too much food and still pretty much fill a general waste bin every fortnight.
UK households throw away 4.4 million tonnes of edible food a year and we are probably wasting around £1000 a year on throwing food away.
So my pledge for Zero Waste Week is to make an 'eat first' shelf in the fridge, at eye level, so nothing gets lost at the back.
Is there anything you're trialling for Zero Waste Week? I'm after ideas.
