Yellow Ley Flowers

29/11/2024

Hello.

We have come to the end of our third full season in flower and foliage production here on the farm.
You might be following us for a variety of reasons so we thought it would be useful to give you a round up of where we’re at and what we do here at Yellow Ley Flowers.

Nick and I have been working hard to turn a brambly half acre corner of wet meadow into a productive and flourishing flower and foliage patch. We are improving the soil year on year and are now, more or less, self-sufficient in the mulch and compost needed to achieve this. The drainage put in last year - who can forget the drainage challenges of last year - also helps. Buttercups and brambles remain, of course, but they are now mostly where we want them. On the wider site earlier tree planting, hedging and meadow development is beginning to come through and the ecology is developing all the time. We had our first orchid last summer and spotted a common lizard and are just waiting now for the nightingales and turtle doves to turn up.

This last season had been our best yet. We have supplied event florists, provided the flowers and floristry for five weddings as well as making up custom bouquets, seasonal buckets and supplying local shops.

Next year we plan to extend what we offer by planting a wide range of foliage plants in addition to the expanding range of annual and perennial cut-flowers we grow. We also continue to work on developing the ecology and diversity of our site and the ways in which we can make our operation more sustainable.

We’re closed now for this season but would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one who has supported us and our journey, bought our flowers or entrusted us with their wedding floristry. We are so grateful that you ‘get’ what we are doing and the reasons why we are doing it.

If you have any enquiries about flowers for next season then please get in touch. We’re always around for a chat.

18/11/2024

700 tulip bulbs later

















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30/10/2024

Late season indulgence

22/10/2024

Autumnal pick. Mums and zinnias in the main.
Still waiting for the late chrysanthemums to flower. 🫰🏼

11/10/2024

Chrysanthemums.
So beautiful right now.
Off to be Bungay to be sold at The Burrow this morning.

30/08/2024

Best on the field right now - end Aug 2024

While sone flowers are now turning over for the winter and dying back we still have a lot of flowers that are coming into their own right now. Thanks to better planning this year, our succession sowings have been a success with 3rd succession of cosmos looking peak right now!

Asters and Rudbeckia are always late starters but are putting on a marvellous display tight now. Zinnias love the sun, lovely healthy plants this year (which I put down to inter-planting with calendula and dry weather where it matters). Keep cutting back the dead scabious heads and more will come, (deadheading - routine this time of year in particular). Phlox late sowings doing well and sedums looking fine (underrated crop in our opinion).

Hope you enjoyed the end of August round-up.
Happy Friday.

26/08/2024

Arranging in the dark for a special bouquet for tomorrow

03/08/2024

What do we do with any unsold flowers when we do markets.
1. Dry what we can - tried and tested plus experimental drying to see what works and what
2. Fun making up arrangements for the kitchen table to look at and and feast our eyes upon while eating our meals.

Very little waste. Try to use everything. One dear friend will be getting a jam jar of flowers later on today …shh!

02/08/2024

Some of the flowers heading to market tomorrow.
Hope to see you there.
Dahlias, rudbeckia, sunflowers, snapdragons, zinnias and everything else.
You can buy as little or as much as you want and curate your own bunch to take home or for the perfect gift.
All grown by us here in Barsham- as always no chemicals, no peat, no pesticides but plenty of love.

Beccles Farmers Market at Ellough Heliport.
1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month.
So much more than our flowers on sale - yummy foodstuffs and crafts bought to you by the local community - a proper social hub too and all under cover.

31/07/2024

Our ‘Queen Lime Red’ zinnias taking centre stage here. Looking amazing en masse but each zinnia seems to take on its own individuality too - ‘look at me, no me, what about me?!’

Zinnias, dahlias and lots more of what’s flowering best on the field right now will be on the shelves of ‘The Burrow’ in Bungay by lunchtime tomorrow.
If you haven’t checked out The Burrow I urge you to make the trip to have a good nosey around. Great ethics and so many great things on sale - locally made or recycled, refills and vintage. Very pleased our flowers have found a regular home there

Also, this weekend we will be bringing our flowers along to the Beccles Farmers Market at Ellough Heliport - Saturday morning 9-1. Our field is bursting with flowers so there will be a great selection to choose from.

27/07/2024

We’re pleased to be putting on this workshop next month.
Check it out!

06/07/2024

Working out some edible flowers selections?
Includes dahlias, marigolds, nasturtiums, cornflowers and borage.
What do you reckon?

04/07/2024

in the

29/06/2024

in the

23/06/2024

These larkspur are ready so I cut them and I’m going to dry them after I’ve conditioned in water overnight.
Larkspur work well when dried.

16/06/2024

Stocks are so worth it!
*so easy to grow
*so exquisitely beautiful
*so deliciously scented
*so boombastic!

12/05/2024

21/04/2024

Afternoon off!
Trip out to Columbine Hall in Stowupland for their charity open day.
Lovely sunny day. Lots of chats with ransoms and mooching about the grounds.
The may is coming into flower on the hawthorn trees and smells divine.










Never seen topiaried hawthorns before (see pic 1).
Nick and I agreed that we would definitely swim in that moat on hot summer evenings if we lived there. What do you reckon?
nice job 👏🏻❤️