The Cornish Flower Patch

04/02/2024

The first Sweet Peas of the season …. we are busy planting out the seedlings, getting beds prepped and feeling the sun on our faces … let the Summer 2023 flower season commence! 🌿🌸

27/10/2023

We hope everyone is having a fun half term, the weather has definitely been perfect for Autumn walks. Have you noticed the fungi in the woods and fields, and the hedges full of berries? Don’t forget that tomorrow night the clocks change, that marks a change in the seasons for sure!

We still have some dahlias flowering, but we have cleared most of the flower beds now. This will be composted, ready to top dress the flower beds with nutrients. We don’t cut down the seed heads on our perennials, they are left to feed the birds over winter. Always striving to grow sustainably 🍂🌎

13/10/2023

Cutting flowers yesterday for bunches for Sarah Sullivan Ceramics - bunches available today at Sarah’s amazing Red Pottery, Fore Street, Redruth, opposite the Regal Cinema - a Friday treat to brighten a blustery day 🍂🌼🧡

12/10/2023

🩷🧡🤍 Yes, it’s real …. no filter. Just a quirk of nature! When the dahlias start slowing down, the tones of their new flowers deepen and get smaller, telling us it’s nearly time for them to finish flowering their socks off. However, this one seems to be telling us a crazy story of mix and match! 🩷🧡🤍

08/10/2023

What a weekend we’re having, such lovely weather! We’re getting the Flower Patch ready for Winter but in between clearing beds we’ve been getting creative by making pumpkin flower arrangements.

Here’s a quick summary of how to have a go yourself:

Hollow out your pumpkin - we’ve used a medium one which fits nicely as a table centrepiece, but go as large or as teeny as you like!

Spray the inside of your pumpkin with diluted bleach and allow to dry - this will preserve it for longer.

Place a small vase, jam jar, or cut the bottom off a milk carton into the pumpkin and fill with water.

First add your foliage. This will support your flowers, and disguise your mechanics.

Then add your focal flowers - the big ones - face this all round if your arrangement will be viewed from all angles. Finally, add your fillers such as cosmos, sedums, twigs and any seed heads or rose hips you can forage. Place the stems at different heights and angles, using their natural twists to give your arrangement movement.

Finally, turn your arrangement to check for gaps, adjust, and place somewhere out of direct sunlight or heat sources, and enjoy! 🍁🧡🍁🧡

We hope we’ve inspired you! Enjoy the rest of this lovely Sunday!

06/10/2023

We were delighted to host the lovely people at Whistlefish recently, their new range of products are just beautiful. Inspired by the seasonal flowers of early Autumn 🌸🍂

You can buy this new range here:

https://whistlefish.com/collections/harvest-blooms

04/10/2023

04/10/2023

02/10/2023

Celebrating being 4 amongst the early Autumn flowers 🌸🍂

We’ve had many people of all ages join us this Summer to pick flowers for their birthdays. What a nice gift they were given by their friends and families!

01/10/2023

Hi everyone,

Thanks so much to everyone that has visited us this year and for liking and sharing our posts, we really appreciate it! 💛

Just popping on to let you know that this week will be our last week of Pick Your Own sessions. 😓 We have a few slots left this Tuesday and still have lots of flowers, so have added some more slots on Thursday. All bookable as usual on our website. If you’ve heard about us and haven’t had chance to visit, now is your chance! Please share if you can think of anyone that might enjoy this too. 🌱

www.thecornishflowerpatch.co.uk

29/09/2023

The winner of our Pick Your Own flowers competition is …
Emily Ruth Pollard !
Congratulations Emily! 💐

25/09/2023

🌸 COMPETITION TIME! 🌸

Well, we are nearly at the end of our flowery season! And to say a massive ‘thank you’ to all our social media followers, customers, and wedding couples we have a Pick Your Own competition prize for you!

Simply Like and SHARE this post, and also Like and SHARE our page, and comment below with a 🌸 to enter.

Unfortunately, if you don’t LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT, you won’t qualify for this competition.

Tag your friends in case they’d like a chance to enter too!

The winner will be chosen at random this Friday, to come to the Flower Patch to pick a bucket of flowers to take home and enjoy.

NOTE: please DO NOT reply to any bot messages you may receive from this post saying you are the winner. Last time we ran a competition we were deleting bots for days 🙈😆 We will notify the winner by direct message and then post the winner’s name on Friday evening.

Good luck! Like and Share for some beautiful blooms 🌸✨🌸✨