Wolves Lane Flower Company

15/09/2023

BIG CHANGES UP AHEAD FOR WLFC

The 2023 season will be drawing to a close soon so it's time to share some news. Marianne has stepped back from the day to day growing and running of the business and is busy juggling family life and new projects. Camila has loved managing WLFC for the past couple of seasons but will be having another baby in October.

For those of you that don't know, WLFC started from nothing in 2017 and has grown to be a meaningful presence in the London and British flower farming scene. We're immensely proud of what we created. We've published a book, grown and sold thousands of flowers, flowered up multiple weddings, run various flower filled workshops, been featured in Vogue, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Gardeners World, Gardens Illustrated among many others. So it's with a mixture of enormous pride and some sadness that we say that we're going to be taking a break from flower farming for now. We're giving up our growing space at Wolves Lane and won't be able to supply you with our gorgeous flowers next season. We are so grateful to all of you for your support over the years and for being brilliant champions of British flowers.

We're going to be selling fresh flowers until late October. Our next dried flower sale is on the 19th September at 10am, or you can ask us to mail them to you. We have a lot of plant stock, growing & floristry kit which we'll also be selling as much of on the 19th September at 10am.

Our next PYO session is on the 24th September.

Florists, never fear you can always find a grower on the website. Our pals will be able to help you out.

We'd love to have made a schmaltzy montage reel with all of our high points over the years, but in true form reality trumps insta so we were up with the sparrows cutting flowers & doing workshop prep so we'll make one another time! You'll have to be happy with this image taken by the wonderful for How to Grow the Flowers (published a year ago today!) which captures it all, friendship and the absolute love of flowers.

Camila & Marianne x

30/08/2023

I’m baaaaaack! After a 2 day wait to get on a flight from Barcelona back to London am firmly back with the flowers and on emails. Apologies to everyone who has emailed about the dried flower sell off and has been waiting for a reply. I’ll be getting back to everyone today about slots. If you missed the post about this. We’ll be starting to sell off our dried stock on the 12th & 19th September at 10am at Wolves Lane. £50 minimum spend. Please email to book your space as we can’t have everyone turn up at the same time!

26/08/2023

The glasshouse and plot are producing so many gorgeous blooms at the moment. It sometimes gets a bit lean and scratchy at the beginning of august but by the end of the moment new successions have hit their stride and the dahlias are in full flow. Thanks so much for capturing this haul so beautifully. There’s still a few opportunities to visit us, learn about growing flowers and take some blooms home this season. Check out the workshops page on our website to see details on our open session and PICK Your Own on Sunday 10th September & our dahlias workshop taking place on the 14th September ❤️

20/08/2023

For Sonia who married Rob at the Barbican last weekend. A bouquet full of sunshine and dahlias and brimming with phlox, rudbeckia, cosmos and a touch of ninebark. Thanks to the mega team for helping me set 25 linear metres of continuous table runners and making it so fun. As always this was one of the only photos I took! It’s always a joy to create flowers for couples who truly embrace seasonality. They get the best out of us and the flowers. Huge congratulations again to S&R ❤️

17/08/2023

DRIED FLOWER SELL OFF!

If you’re on our florists mailing list you’ll be receiving all this info plus the stock list this morning. For everyone else here’s the info on how and when we’re selling off the dried stock this season.

We have been ridiculously efficient and nimble fingered this year growing more flowers for drying than ever before.

We're so excited to share our dried flower sell off dates with you so that you can be as creative and flowery as possible during the fallow period. These are going to take place on Tuesday 12th September at 10am and Tuesday 19th September at 10am.

There is a minimum spend of £50. Please email to reserve a space on either day. Spaces will be first come first served. There may well be other dates to purchase so do let us know if you can't make it and we can be in touch about what's left. Sales and delivery to UK by courier/post is possible with a minimum spend of £150 + courier/p&p.

We're also going to be selling off some of our workshop and event stock on the same dates. Vessels, vases, sundries, urns, plinths, anything and everything a florist might need!

31/05/2022

Wolves Lane Flower Club is back!

We’re offering a one off flower delivery of scented seasonal and sustainable blooms to north Londoners. Be quick though we only have 25 delivery slots! Flowers will be delivered on Thursday 2nd June between 8am - 2pm.

For £45 including north London delivery*, you’ll receive a bunch of flowers and foliage to arrange & enjoy at home. Just need to remember to leave a bucket out on delivery day and it’ll be filled with a fresh bucket of seasonal blooms.

Check out our FAQs below for information on how it works and also watch our video about why buying local flowers matters to our small business and the planet.

Please note that this is a one-off flower delivery and is not a subscription service.

The Wolves Lane Flower Club is a monthly flower subscription service. Have beautiful, ethically grown flowers delivered to you from our sustainable flower farm in north London.

08/03/2022

isn’t just about women who inspire us although there are many. It’s really about the women who have fought so many battles before us for a gender equal world. There’s still so much more work to do to close the gap in this country and beyond. And we truly hope that the global cut flower industry listens up and starts protecting women’s rights in flower farms in the developing world where safe working conditions and a living wage aren’t a given**

But here’s a nod to the women in our lives, our mothers, sisters, godmothers, grandmothers, aunts, SILs & MILs who have worked, strived and mothered (in all the forms that motherhood takes) to be able to do what men have been able to do for millennia. We hope we’ll be able to continue to set this example for our children.

In this pic: 3 generations of Camila’s family: her mother, sister and niece. Plus Bri!

We wanted to put a pic up of Marianne’s fam as well but ya know she’s still nursing a tiny baby and couldn’t find a pic!

**if you love flowers and just can’t live without imported fresh blooms please consider buying so that the women and men who grew your flowers can be guaranteed a fair wage.

07/03/2022

Hello we’ve been feeling a little paralysed and overwhelmed by everything that’s going on. We’ve been trying to find a meaningful and practical way of helping people in Ukraine. So next Wednesday 16th March at 3pm GMT we’re hosting an online Q&A to raise funds. Spring is THE time for so many flower growing jobs: seed sowing / mulching / potting up dahlia tubers - there’s so much to do which we know can feel very overwhelming! So we’re here to answer your questions about what to do, what to prioritise, what to sow now and where to concentrate your efforts 🌱

The event is free but you will be asked to make a donation with all the money going to DEC] to help people who are fleeing the conflict in Ukraine. We’ll also be asking everyone to send their questions in advance via the VERY SHORT survey that’s linked to the eventbrite. Please fill this in it takes 2 mins and means we’ll really be able to cut to the chase and focus on what YOU want to know 📈

If you can’t make it at that time don’t worry you can still sign up for the event and ask a question. Once it’s over we’ll be sending a recording out to everyone so that they can catch up 💻

The last time we ran a charity Q&A like this we managed to raise £385 so we’re really hoping we can raise that again for DEC] 💕

Thanks so much in advance and if this looks like something your followers or insta community would be interested in please share! 🗣

04/03/2022

What a week. What a time to feel grateful for what we’ve got. Unbelievably we’re only a month away from having the tulips in bloom. For us the changing of the seasons have always been a source of great comfort. Whatever is going on in the world, nature will prevail. Something we like to do when we’re not on the plot is take a walk and nosy around London front gardens to see what’s in bud, what’s in flower (hello irises, blossom & viburnum tinus). It provides us with a connection with something joyful, promising and grounding. Reassuringly the seasons will continue to change and it’s what we’re holding onto at the moment 💕

01/03/2022

Everything is feeling so heavy right now but the 1st day of meteorological spring is nearly over which means we’re nearing the end of the seasonal fallow period. Some spring colour is desperately needed. Here are some of our tulips to look forward to. Believe it or not these guys will start flowering at the end of the month. Joy and relief at least from the flower world is on its way 💕

01/03/2022

Look up & spot the blossom 👀 it's the first of March & officially the first day of meteorological spring 🌱 This year it's a soggy one, but the blossom is providing some joy & diversion on the wet stomps around wheeling a buggy 👶 After the storm damage in the last few weeks we've also looked 👇 down 👇& come across lots of fallen branches, thwarted from flowering after months of hard work developing those buds 😐 But even the branches that have been languishing for a week or so can be snipped off, taken home to be plonked into water and then left to slowly unfurl into flower. The easiest floristy possible for the time starved! Saw that has done the same with some horsechestnut buds which are equally pleasing. A great way to bring spring inside when it's proving reluctant to arrive outside!

26/02/2022

Following the lead of . Sunflowers are the national flower of Ukraine. Something we only recently discovered due to the most heartbreaking & senseless of circumstances. Countries like Ukraine are names on a map, places we don't think about much day to day. Perhaps we express an opinion about their Eurovision entry. Something flippant & fleeting like that. But Ukraine is home to over 40 million people. People who have gardens, grow flowers, have babies, just like us. The thought 'it could happen to us', the imagining of bundling a tiny baby into an underground bunker has been unbearable these last few days. Posting a photo of a sunflower - it's cheerful yellow petals reflected against a blue sky just like it's flag - feels farcically futile. As does writing this long post to be honest. But what more can we do? We can keep the people of Ukraine, the gardeners, mothers, fathers, dreamers & just ordinary folk in our hearts and minds each day. We can donate & remember it's not 'just another' good cause. It's people's lives - just like us - and they don't deserve to have them ripped apart due to one man's unhinged avarice. Thinking of all Ukrainians today 💛💙🇺🇦