19/05/2026
Britain’s hidden £30m flower farming industry gets official recognition — just in time for Chelsea
An industry dominated by women, built on birdsong and biodiversity, has spent years invisible to government statistics. That changes now. Walk into a British flower farm in summer and the birdsong is almost deafening. But until this week, the Treasury couldn’t hear it. The £30 million* a year generated by the UK’s flower farming industry has, until now, been invisible, absorbed into the catch-all figures of broader agriculture, its contribution uncounted, its flower growers unrecognised. That changes today. Flowers from the Farm, the trade body representing over a thousand British flower growers, has been awarded dedicated Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes, the formal economic identifiers that allow a sector to exist, officially, in the eyes of government, funders and policymakers.
The award of SIC codes, secured with persistent backing from Liberal Democrat MP Sarah D**e, is more than a bureaucratic milestone. For the first time, the economic contribution of British flower farming can be tracked, measured, and used as the basis for funding applications, academic research, and government support.
Read more here: https://www.flowersfromthefarm.co.uk/press-and-media/
